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Informationen zum Autor The editors are four global leaders in development economics and in African and South African economic analysis and policy, who between them have held or hold the following positions: Chief Economist, African Development Bank; Deputy Director General in the Presidency of the Republic of South Africa; Chief Director, Department of Trade and Industry, South Africa; Presidential Economic Advisor, South Africa; G20 Sherpa, South Africa; Co-Chair G20 Development Working Group; Chief Economist for Africa, The World Bank; Professor of Economics, University of Cape Town; Dean of Commerce, Law and Management, University of Witwatersrand; Professor of Economics, Cornell University. Klappentext 52 entries by leading economists from within and working on South Africa bringing together perspectives on a range of issues: micro, macro, sectoral, country wide and global. Zusammenfassung In 1994 South Africa saw the end of apartheid. The new era of political freedom was seen as the foundation for economic prosperity and inclusion. The last two decades have seen mixed results. Economic growth has been volatile. While inequalities in public services have been reduced, income inequality has increased, and poverty has remained stagnant. As the twentieth anniversary of the transition to democracy approaches in 2014, the economic policy debates in South Africa are in full flow. They combine a stocktake of the various programs of the last two decades with a forward looking discussion of strategy in the face of an ever open but volatile global economy. Underlying the discourse are basic and often unresolved differences on an appropriate strategy for an economy like South Africa, with a strong natural resource base but with deeply entrenched inherited inequalities, especially across race. This volume contributes to the policy and analytical debate by pulling together perspectives on a range of issues: micro, macro, sectoral, country wide and global, from leading economists working on South Africa. Other than the requirement that it be analytical and not polemical, the contributors were given freedom to put forward their particular perspective on their topic. The economists invited are from within South Africa and from outside; from academia and the policy world; from international and national level economic policy agencies. The contributors include recognized world leaders in South African economic analysis, as well as the very best of the younger crop of economists who are working on the study of South Africa, the next generation of leaders in thought and policy. Inhaltsverzeichnis Overview: Economic Policy in South Africa: Past, Present, and Future Part 1: The Economics of Post-Apartheid South Africa 1: Trevor Manuel: Twenty Years of Economic Policy-Making: Putting People First 2: Johannes Fedderke: South Africa's Growth Performance 3: Ben Smit: Macroeconomic Scenarios for South Africa: 2013-2025 4: Ruchir Sharma: The Liberation Dividend 5: Ben Fine, Samantha Ashman, Vishnu Padayachee, and John Sender: The Political Economy of Restructuring in South Africa 6: Sandeep Mahajan: South Africa's Suboptimal Political Economy Equilibrium 7: Martin Wittenberg: Data Issues in South Africa Part 2: South Africa and the World Economy 8: Lawrence Edwards: Trade Policy Reform in South Africa 9: Anthony Black: The Evolution and Impact of Foreign Direct Investment into South Africa since 1994 10: Brendan Vickers: South Africa's Economic Relations with Africa 11: Brian Kahn and Shaun de Jager: South Africa's Exchange Rate Policy and Exchange Rate Developments Part 3: Macroeconomics and Fiscal Policy 12: Kenneth Creamer: South Africa's Fiscal Framework 13: Tania Ajam: Intergovernmental Fiscal Relations in South Africa 14: Nichola Viegi: (Dis)Saving in South Africa 15: Janine Aron and John Muellbauer: Inflation in South Afr...
