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South African Reserve Bank Quarterly Bulletin

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Kind official statistical series
Producer South African Reserve Bank
Coverage 1940-2001
Works using it 20

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Debates

Debate Works
Finance, capital flight, the 1985 debt crisis and banking 10
Did the apartheid economy fail? Growth, productivity, investment and the post-1970s crisis 6
Liberal vs revisionist: was apartheid functional or dysfunctional for capitalist growth? 6
Industrialisation, protection and industrial structure 5
Sanctions, disinvestment and the anti-apartheid movement 5
Post-apartheid economic policy, governance and corruption 4
Unemployment: causes, measurement and labour market institutions 3
The state and capital: instrumentalism, autonomy and fractions of capital 2
Agricultural policy, productivity, farm size and land reform 1
Farm labour: mechanisation, labour shedding, wages and labour control 1
Homelands, separate development, decentralisation and removals 1
Data reliability and econometric method 1
The mine migrant labour system: origins, recruitment, foreign labour and stabilisation 1

Works using this source

Work As cited Period How used
Aron and Muellbauer (2006) South African Reserve Bank, Quarterly Bulletin: household debt, personal disposable income, bank deposits by depositor type 1970–2003 (debt published from 1991Q3; deposits by depositor from 1991Q3) Provides household debt, income denominators and the 1991Q3 benchmark for personal broad money holdings.
Bell (1995) South African Reserve Bank Quarterly Bulletin, Supplement June 1994 (p B-12) and September 1995 issue: investment and GDP expenditure series, 1946-94 1946-1994 Builds Figure 1, the investment/GDP ratio, to argue the post-1984 decline reflects macro-economic shocks rather than low propensity to invest.
Bell and Madula (2001) South African Reserve Bank (2001), South Africa's Balance of Payments 1946-2000 (Quarterly Bulletin Supplement) incl. nominal effective exchange rates 1946-2000 Source of nominal effective exchange rates used to convert rand exports into constant-price trade-weighted foreign currency values.
De Klerk (1990) South African Reserve Bank, Quarterly Bulletin (1973, 1978, 1980, 1981, 1985, 1988) 1970-1988 Supplies national income growth for demand estimates, price and rand data for Table 3, and the capital stock methodology.
Fedderke (2006) SARB Quarterly Bulletin series S-127, S-129, S-131, S-116 (corporate and household saving, private fixed capital formation, GNP at factor cost) c. 1960-1990s Constructs private-sector savings and investment rates showing a persistent saving shortfall requiring capital inflows.
Fedderke and Simkins (2004) South African Reserve Bank Quarterly Bulletin series S-116, S-127, S-129, S-131 1960-2000 Used to construct the private savings and private investment rates in Figure 3.
Harris (1986) Reserve Bank estimates of short-term and long-term foreign debt at end-1984 and 1983 1983-1984 Establishes the unbalanced debt structure (short-term $14.0bn versus long-term $10.3bn, worsening from 1983) as an economic precondition of the crisis.
Harris (1986) South African Reserve Bank, Quarterly Bulletin, December 1985 1984-1985 Supplies data on the composition of foreign debt (private share, short-term versus long-term), the post-freeze repayments on exempted loans, and total foreign assets at end-1984.
Harvey (1974) Quarterly Bulletin of Statistics, Table A10, December 1971 1969-1970 Share of white immigrants coming from Britain.
Hirsch (1989) Nedbank Bulletin / Guide to the Economy (Aug and Nov 1987) and SARB Quarterly Review (March 1988) 1987 Evidence that net capital inflows and new public corporation loans resumed in 1987 despite no public issues.
Hirsch (1989) South African Reserve Bank Quarterly Bulletin, December 1987 (foreign debt series, Table 1) 1980-1987 Supplies total foreign debt in US$ and rand, debt as % of GDP, and short-term debt share, which anchor the account of the debt build-up.
Kahn (1987a) Balance of payments item 'error and unrecorded transactions', 1975-1977, and gross gold and foreign exchange reserves, September 1977 1975-1977 Used as an indicator of exchange control evasion after the 1976 unrest.
Kahn (1987a) South African Reserve Bank Quarterly Bulletins (current and capital accounts of the balance of payments, 1967-1986) 1967-1986 Supplies the series plotted in Figure 1 to show the current and capital accounts moving in opposite directions.
Kahn (1987a) South African Reserve Bank Quarterly Bulletins (net and gross foreign exchange reserves, 1968-1986) 1968-1986 Supplies Figure 2 showing changes in net and gross gold and foreign exchange reserves, with falls in 1976, 1981 and 1985.
Kahn (1987b) Balance of payments item 'error and unrecorded transactions', 1975-1977 1975-1977 Its jump from R77m to R585m, compared with gross reserves, is used as an indicator of exchange control evasion after the 1976 unrest.
Kahn (1987b) South African Reserve Bank Quarterly Bulletins (South Africa's foreign debt, Table 1) 1980-1985 Documents the rise in dollar and rand foreign debt, debt/GDP and the short-term debt share, used to show the wealth effect of depreciation and the bunching of maturities.
Kahn (1987b) South African Reserve Bank Quarterly Bulletins (current and capital accounts of the balance of payments, 1967-1986) 1967-1986 Supplies the series plotted in Figure 1 to show the current and capital accounts moving in opposite directions.
Kahn (1987b) South African Reserve Bank Quarterly Bulletins (net and gross gold and foreign exchange reserves) c.1967-1986 Supplies Figure 2, showing the substantial falls in net reserves in 1976, 1981 and 1985.
Kerby (2016b) South African Reserve Bank Quarterly Bulletin, register of foreign capital liabilities (Appendix S71), 1979-1997 1979-1997 Used to show Asian and Taiwanese inward direct versus non-direct liabilities and permanence of Taiwanese investment.
Nattrass (1990) South African Reserve Bank Quarterly Bulletins (March 1950, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1956) 1950-1956 Evidence on macroeconomic conditions, investment projects, labour shortages on the mines and the causes of cyclical downswings.
Padayachee (1988) South African Reserve Bank, Quarterly Bulletin, March 1987 1981-1985 Source for the current account deficit 1981-84 and the 1985 surplus.
Rubin (1997a) South African Reserve Bank Quarterly Bulletin, December 1996 1996 Cited with Finance Week and Millward & Pillay for scheduled foreign debt repayments of $1.5bn-$2.6bn a year until 2001.
Rubin (1997b) South African Reserve Bank Quarterly Bulletin, December 1996 to 1996 Supports the figures on scheduled foreign debt repayments of $1.5bn-$2.6bn a year to 2001.
Rustomjee (1991) South African Reserve Bank statistics on capital flows and foreign assets/liabilities, and Quarterly Bulletin (June 1989) to 1986; debt figure 1984 Used to check that IFS aggregate capital flows correlate with SARB data and as the source of South African foreign debt in Table 1.
Sender (1994) South African Reserve Bank, Quarterly Bulletin (March 1994) to March 1994 Cited to support the claim that capital outflows continue and private domestic investment is in long-standing decline.
Sources of Growth in the... (1990) South African Reserve Bank, South Africa's Balance of Payments 1956-1975 (Quarterly Bulletin Supplement, March 1977) 1956-1975 Cited as reference for balance of payments, capital flows and export patterns.
Verhoef (n.d.) South African Reserve Bank Quarterly Statistics/Bulletin of Statistics, 1940-1947 (1957) 1940-1957 Source for Volkskas' deposit shares (savings, fixed, cheque deposits) relative to all commercial banks.