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  • Wanted : an economic system for South Africa 
    Truu, M.L. (Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences, University of Pretoria, 1997)
    At present, South Africa's economic system has no name and is under a cloud of confusion. This has been caused by the concurrence of two major political events: the collapse of the Soviet bloc and South Africa's changeover ...
  • An appraisal of the RDP and the macroeconomic strategy of the South African government in terms of conditions for sustainable economic growth and development 
    De Wet, Geert Lampen, 1947-; Harmse, Chris (Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences, University of Pretoria, 1997-06)
    This paper reviews conditions for sustainable economic growth and development, developed in previous publications and papers by the authors and based on the experience of successfully developing countries. It then analyses ...
  • Beoefening van die ekonomie as wetenskap : verouderd in 'n veranderende wêreld? 
    Van Heerden, J.H. (Jan Horn), 1957- (Blackwell, 1998-06)
    As ek 'n intreerede korrek verstaan, dan moet 'n mens die vraag beantwoord: waarmee behoort my vakgebied besig te wees? Die antwoord is voor die hand liggend: Maar wat is wetenskap, en wat is die ekonomiese wetenskap per ...
  • Development and the environment : some basic issues 
    Blignaut, James Nelson; Heymann, E.F. (Blackwell, 1998-06)
    Given its unique economic and social circumstances, South Africa is in desperate need of economic development. The main impetus for growth will have to come from the mining and industrial sectors, which will have to play ...
  • Meat quality and carcass characteristics of the vondo, Thryonomys swinderianus 
    Van Zyl, A.; Van der Merwe, M.; Blignaut, Anita Seugnet (South African Society for Animal Science, 1999)
    Animals, maintained from birth on a higher and lower fibre diet, were slaughtered when postnatal growth curves flattened off. Males tended to be larger than females. The meat of females tended to have higher lipid (9.2 ...
  • Small, medium and micro-sized enterprises (SMMEs) and the housing construction industry : a possible solution to South Africa's socio-economic problems 
    Joubert, C.S.; Schoeman, N.J. (Nicolaas Johannes); Blignaut, James Nelson (Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences, University of Pretoria, 1999-03)
    South Africa as a developing country faces many socio-economic problems like high unemployment, low levels of working skills, poverty and rampant crime. In this paper it is argued that by targeting SMMEs both in general ...
  • On the shady side of economics 
    Van Heerden, J.H. (Jan Horn), 1957-; Blignaut, James Nelson; Groenendijk, N.S. (Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences, University of Pretoria, 1999-06)
    This paper explains fraud from an economic point of view, using traditional economic tools and reasoning. It is shown how a supply-of-fraud function can be defined and estimated for individuals, and subsequently aggregated ...
  • An empirical capital market rate function for an emerging market economy in international financial crisis 
    Harmse, Chris; Du Toit, Charlotte Barbara (Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences, University of Pretoria, 1999-09)
    After the first democratic election in South Africa in April 1994, South Africa's financial markets became more exposed and vulnerable to international developments, vide the financial crisis of 1998. This vulnerability ...
  • Generational accounting : a comparison between various taxes' incidence on the young and old in South Africa 
    Van Heerden, J.H. (Jan Horn), 1957-; Schoeman, N.J. (Nicolaas Johannes) (Bureau for Economic Research and the Graduate School of Business, University of Stellenbosch, 2000)
    This article focuses on the applicability of intergenerational accounting to contribute towards more effective fiscal policy for the correction of wealth imbalances in South Africa. Three scenarios are tested using a general ...
  • Purchasing power parity in the long run : an empirical re-evaluation of the South African evidence 
    De Wet, Theuns J. (Bureau for Economic Research and the Graduate School of Business, University of Stellenbosch, 2000)
    Purchasing Power Parity is a very important equilibrium concept in macroeconomics. Although the concept of purchasing power parity equilibrium is widely used in the academic, public and business sector, the actual existence ...
  • Aspects of fiscal devolution in South Africa 
    Grote, M.; Schoeman, N.J. (Nicolaas Johannes); Truu, M.L.; Van Heerden, J.H. (Jan Horn), 1957-; Van Tonder, Jurie J. (Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences, University of Pretoria, 2000-03)
    This paper is the joint product of a think tank, initiated in the public sector and extended to a group of academics. It may be seen as the executive summary of a rather voluminous report for internal use in the Department ...
  • The economics of exchange rates : a South African model 
    Brink, S.; Koekemoer, Reneé (Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences, University of Pretoria, 2000-03)
    This paper attempts to capture the determination of the South African exchange rate in a theoretically plausible model with reliable forecasting ability. A sticky-price, Dornbusch-type monetary model of the rand/dollar ...
  • A critical evaluation of the capital theory approach to sustainable development 
    De Wit, M.P. (Martinus Petrus); Blignaut, James Nelson (Agricultural Economics Association of South Africa, 2000-03)
    It is argued that the capital-theory approach (CTA) does not adequately account for all the different elements of sustainable development. To overcome this problem, this paper attempts to point out what a more integrated ...
  • Monetary policy in South Africa on the threshold of a new era 
    Mollentze, Sandra (Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences, University of Pretoria, 2000-06)
    Examines how the nature of monetary policy application has changed in South Africa. Considers the philosophical development of monetary policy and analyzes monetary policy according to the various phases through which it ...
  • Foreign direct investment flows and fiscal discipline in South Africa 
    Schoeman, N.J. (Nicolaas Johannes); Robinson, Z. Clausen; De Wet, Theuns J.; Robinson, Zurika (Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences, University of Pretoria, 2000-06)
    This paper investigates the impact of fiscal policy on foreign direct investment (FDI) in South Africa during the past 30 years. Casual empirical analysis reveals a definite linkage between FDI flows and variables such as ...
  • Debt sustainability and exchange rate stabilisation : towards a new theory 
    Basdevant, Olivier; De Wet, Theuns J. (Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences, University of Pretoria, 2000-09)
    The sustainability of debt is a crucial issue in developing and transitional economies. In this paper, it shows that a bubble in the real exchange rate could result in a sudden collapse in the sustainability of a country's ...
  • Modelling fertiliser use in the grain crop and oilseed sectors of South Africa 
    Breitenbach, M.C. (Marthinus); Meyer, N.G. (Routledge, 2000-09)
    A Partial Equilibrium (PE) model is developed to model fertiliser use in the grain crop and oilseed sectors to assess the impact of changes in the physical and economic environment on production and fertiliser use. Since ...
  • The Big Mac hamburger : is it used to communicate a distorted media message? 
    Harmse, Chris; Jordaan, Andre Cillie; Jordaan, Yolanda (University of Wisconsin Press in cooperation with the Institute for Media Analysis in South Africa (iMasa) and the Department of Journalism at Stellenbosch University, South Africa, 2001)
    For more than a decade the Big Mac index has served as a guide to the layman as to whether currencies are at their ‘correct’ exchange rate level. This article compares the postal rate of a standard letter in South Africa, ...
  • The effect of a minimum wage on the demand for labour in the domestic service sector : preliminary findings from the Phillip Nel park area 
    Breitenbach, M.C. (Marthinus); Peta, R.N. (UNISA School of Management Sciences, 2001-01)
    New labour laws that include domestic workers have been introduced. A preliminary study attempted to determine how effective the implementation of the new labour legislation was in altering conditions of employment in this ...
  • Youth participation in the economy 
    Malan, C.W.; Breitenbach, M.C. (Marthinus) (AOSIS, 2001-03)
    Youth in South Africa are persons of the ages 14 to 35 and constitute a large part of the potential labour supply and economically active population. The youth are also one of the central focus areas of government and ...