To resolve South Africa's pressing unemployment problems, the country urgently needs to move towards a more labor-demanding pattern of growth. As it emerges from the apartheid era, it is important that...
This paper presents a discussion of the strategic education sector issues and policy options that the World Bank believes to be at the heart of efforts to expand and strengthen school education provision...
This report presents a synthesis of 10 subject matter and zonal studies carried out by South Africans. The subject matter studies examine the policy climate pertinent to land, water, forestry and nature...
This study examines the challenge of promoting equitable and fiscally sustainable growth and evaluates alternative paths to growth using an econometric model developed by World Bank staff. The broad conclusion...
The purpose of this report is to analyze the performance of South Africa's agriculture sector and to outline the strategic options for improving the overall structure and performance of the sector, especially...
The black enterprise sector in South Africa has, despite a long history of exclusion and restriction, substantial potential to help distribute employment, income and wealth more equitably between whites...
This report is an attempt to provide an overview of South Africa's trade regime to assess whether it is conducive to sustaining a prolonged export drive. Stagnation of output and rising unemployment have...
South Africa faces a growing labor market crisis. Despite substantial growth in the informal sector, the unemployment rate has rocketed upwards to over 20 percent of the total labor force, and has reached...
In the 1980s the South African government undertook quite effective policy adjustments in the macroeconomic arena to respond to the short-run crises it faced. Today, however, the macroeconomic situation...
A fundamental challenge for South Africa is to move its economy onto a labor-demanding path of growth that has the potential to progressively reduce poverty and the deep social and racial inequalities...