South African Reserve Bank Annual Economic Report¶


Kind	official statistical series
Producer	South African Reserve Bank
Coverage	1961-2000
Works using it	7

Debates¶

Debate	Works
Did the apartheid economy fail? Growth, productivity, investment and the post-1970s crisis	2
Homelands, separate development, decentralisation and removals	2
Industrialisation, protection and industrial structure	2
Black trade unions: growth, wage effects, Wiehahn and strategy	2
Agricultural policy, productivity, farm size and land reform	1
The job colour bar, white labour and its erosion	1
The mine migrant labour system: origins, recruitment, foreign labour and stabilisation	1
Sanctions, disinvestment and the anti-apartheid movement	1
Unemployment: causes, measurement and labour market institutions	1
Racial wage gaps, wage convergence and wage determination	1

Work	As cited	Period	How used
Horrell (1970)	South African Reserve Bank annual economic report, September 1969	1968-1969	Source for economic revival, labour shortage and consumer price movements.
Houghton and Dagut (1973)	South African Reserve Bank Annual Economic Report 1961 and Quarterly Bulletin	1956-1966	Describes the 1960/61 slowdown and capital outflows; supplies balance of payments tables.
Kaplinsky (1995)	South African Reserve Bank, Annual Economic Report 1992	1988-1992	Source for the estimate that 46% of the labour force was unemployed in mid-1992, up from 39% in 1988.
Maree (1993a)	South African Reserve Bank, Annual Economic Report 1990	1980s	Supplies employment growth (1.1%) versus growth of the economically active population (2.5%) in the 1980s.
Maree (1993b)	South African Reserve Bank, Annual Economic Report 1990	1980s	Gives employment growth of 1.1% a year against 2.5% growth of the economically active population in the 1980s.
Perkins et al. (2005a)	South African Reserve Bank Annual Economic Report, 1996-2000	1996-2000	Cited to explain that the 1990s recovery and later slump in infrastructure investment came from Telkom, Eskom and SAA expansion programmes.
Perkins et al. (2005b)	South African Reserve Bank Annual Economic Reports, 1996-2000	1996-2000	Cited to explain the 1990s recovery and subsequent slump in infrastructure investment (Telkom, Eskom, SAA).