Arbeitspapier
Understanding and characterizing the services sector in South Africa: An overview
The South African services sector is large and growing. This coupled with declining employment shares in manufacturing and mining (i.e. deindustrialization) suggests that South Africa is a de facto service-orientated economy. Employment patterns in services reveal a segmentation that is characterized by high-productivity, high-wage services, low-productivity, low-wage services, and government services. There has been sustained growth in services exports in the post-1994 period but the composition is biased toward traditional services. Increased entry into developing country markets is characterized by increasingly sophisticated services. A key driver of export growth is the expansion of foreign direct investment into developed country markets, and increasingly, into developing country markets, particularly African markets.
- ISBN
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978-92-9256-201-4
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: WIDER Working Paper ; No. 2016/157
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Industry Studies: Services: General
Industrialization; Manufacturing and Service Industries; Choice of Technology
Economywide Country Studies: Africa
- Thema
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services
economic development
South Africa
economic growth
structural change
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Bhorat, Haroon
Steenkamp, François
Rooney, Christopher
Kachingwe, Nomsa
Lees, Adrienne
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)
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Helsinki
- (wann)
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2016
- DOI
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doi:10.35188/UNU-WIDER/2016/201-4
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:45 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Bhorat, Haroon
- Steenkamp, François
- Rooney, Christopher
- Kachingwe, Nomsa
- Lees, Adrienne
- The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)
Entstanden
- 2016
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