Development Bank of Southern Africa statistical series

Literature › Primary sources

Kind	official statistical series
Producer	DBSA
Coverage	1946-1996
Works using it	3

Debates

Debate	Works
Agricultural policy, productivity, farm size and land reform	2
Did the apartheid economy fail? Growth, productivity, investment and the post-1970s crisis	1
Why apartheid ended: reform, transition and elite bargaining	1
Farm labour: mechanisation, labour shedding, wages and labour control	1
Data reliability and econometric method	1

Works using this source

Work	As cited	Period	How used
Hoffman and Todd (2000)	Provincial statistical macro-economic reviews (nine provinces), 1995	1995 (growth variables 1981-1991)	Source of the demographic, labour/employment and economic production variables used as regressors.
Inman and Rubinfeld (2008)	Development Bank of South Africa, Annual Report, Various Years	last years of apartheid (1977-1993)	Homeland budget averages (26.3 bn 2000 Rand) used to estimate apartheid-era redistributive services (q = .16) and apartheid tax costs to the elite.
Vink and Kirsten (2001)	Development Bank of Southern Africa, Standardised Employment Series of South Africa (formal sector and agricultural employment, 1946-1996)	1946-1996	Establishes the long-term secular decline in farm employment and in agriculture's share of formal employment (Figures 1 and 2), including a fitted exponential trend.