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Board for the Decentralisation of Industry records

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Kind state archives
Producer Board for the Decentralisation of Industry / DTI
Coverage 1970-1992
Works using it 2

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Debate Works
Homelands, separate development, decentralisation and removals 2

Works using this source

Work As cited Period How used
Kerby (2016a) BDI business license applications almanac (Foreign Investment Business License Applications, National Archive Pretoria, TAB 39149-ZA) 1980-1992 Provides applications/take-up by country of origin and a proxy for annual Taiwanese migration and firm numbers.
Kerby (2016a) Board for the Decentralisation of Industry (BDI) annual reports 1970-1992 and related RIDP incentive/disbursement records (National Archive Pretoria, TAB 7869-ZA etc.) 1970-1992 Builds the time series of incentives, concessions, employment and capital spending used to describe the three phases and to measure incentive variation across zones.
Kerby (2016a) Small Business Development Corporation and IDC financing records; Department of Trade and Industry manual (1982), National Archive Pretoria Ref G 68 E INDU 86 MANU 1981-1985 Used to show SBDC and IDC finance largely bypassed Taiwanese firms and to describe relocation allowances.
Kerby (2016b) BDI business licence applications and declassified BDI firm records (National Archive Pretoria, TAB 9879/987; TAB 39149-ZA) 1979-1992 Supplies foreign and Taiwanese licence applications (Tables 1.1, 2.9), the annual Taiwanese migration proxy, and firm location, sector and start-date data for the agglomeration analysis.