{"title":"Government failure and state incapacity the South African public sector in the 1990s","authors":"B. Dollery, J. Snowball","doi":"10.1080/10113430309511164","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10113430309511164","url":null,"abstract":"In their editorial introduction to the 1994 Special Issue of the South African Journal of Economic History devoted to a sectoral analysis of the South African economy during the 1980s, Stuart Jones & Jon Inggs described this period as a \"lost decade\", with per capita incomes even lower in 1990 than they had been in 1980.","PeriodicalId":83269,"journal":{"name":"The South African journal of economic history : [journal of the Economic History Society of Southern Africa]","volume":"12 1","pages":"310 - 331"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74250093","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Insurance in the 1990s A. The long‐term insurance market 1990–2000","authors":"B. C. Benfield, Robert W. Vivian","doi":"10.1080/10113430309511162","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10113430309511162","url":null,"abstract":"The decade opened with the market dealing with the aftermath of the collapse of the AA Mutual a large short-term insurance company. As a consequence the regulator was completely reorganised, the supervisory legislation revised and a voluntary ombudsman appointed. As the decade progressed and the first Black majority government was elected optimism ruled as foreign insurers returned to the market. The legislative reforms however did not cease as the new government as the new government found its feet.","PeriodicalId":83269,"journal":{"name":"The South African journal of economic history : [journal of the Economic History Society of Southern Africa]","volume":"35 1","pages":"275 - 288"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75274897","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Innovation for globalisation or globalisation of innovation Sasol in the chemical industry during the 1990s","authors":"G. Verhoef","doi":"10.1080/10113430309511159","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10113430309511159","url":null,"abstract":"In the 1990s Sasol became a global player in the chemical industry. At the same time the company began to reduce its dependence on coal as a feedstock turning to natural gas and developing joint ventures with foreign oil companies. For Sasol the 1990s was a decade of far reaching change in both technology and in the scale of its international operations as it expanded from its original petroleum basis into the development of related chemical products.","PeriodicalId":83269,"journal":{"name":"The South African journal of economic history : [journal of the Economic History Society of Southern Africa]","volume":"118 1","pages":"188 - 212"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77500270","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Fiscal policy in the 1990s","authors":"E. Calitz, K. Siebrits","doi":"10.1080/10113430309511154","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10113430309511154","url":null,"abstract":"The story of fiscal policy in South Africa during the 1990s is one of a marked turnaround. In the early parts of the 1990s, South Africa seemed to be heading for serious fiscal problems. However, by the end of a decade that was marked by a global review of the economic role of governments, a sweeping political transition, several adverse shocks to the South African economy and its reintegration into a globalising world economy.","PeriodicalId":83269,"journal":{"name":"The South African journal of economic history : [journal of the Economic History Society of Southern Africa]","volume":"29 22 1","pages":"50 - 75"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88486017","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The freight transport sector in the 1990s","authors":"Trevor Jones","doi":"10.1080/10113430309511160","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10113430309511160","url":null,"abstract":"In 1994, South Africa's new democracy inherited a transport sector that had undergone major changes over the previous quarter century. In the decade of the 1970s, the freight transport sector had moved irreversibly into the era of high-mass transportation, most notably of bulk commodities moving through the newly-constructed ports and landside infrastructure associated with Richards Bay and Saldanha.","PeriodicalId":83269,"journal":{"name":"The South African journal of economic history : [journal of the Economic History Society of Southern Africa]","volume":"129 1","pages":"213 - 237"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83976007","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Manufacturing during the 1990s Facing up to trade liberalisation","authors":"C. Mccarthy","doi":"10.1080/10113430309511158","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10113430309511158","url":null,"abstract":"The periodisation of economic history is always a problematical exercise, with the identification of turning points and the events that brought this about often difficult and at times arbitrary. To review developments during specific periods such as successive decades is not periodisation but what it does do is to shed light on events and developments that in time would seem to have started or ended an identifiable period of economic development.","PeriodicalId":83269,"journal":{"name":"The South African journal of economic history : [journal of the Economic History Society of Southern Africa]","volume":"2 1","pages":"159 - 187"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89004776","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Stals era of monetary policy in South Africa","authors":"A. Schoombee","doi":"10.1080/10113430309511153","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10113430309511153","url":null,"abstract":"The decade of the 1980s, especially the second half, was an extremely difficult period for the South African economy. Domestic political and social unrest were at levels not previously experienced and in combination with effective international financial sanctions led to serious instabilities in the macro economy, the most prominent being the large-scale net outflow in the financial account of the balance of payments.","PeriodicalId":83269,"journal":{"name":"The South African journal of economic history : [journal of the Economic History Society of Southern Africa]","volume":"1 1","pages":"31 - 49"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89427663","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The South African economy in the 1990s","authors":"Stuart Jones, Jon Inggs","doi":"10.1080/10113430309511151","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10113430309511151","url":null,"abstract":"Private enterprise has been the driving force behind the growth of the South African economy ever since sustained growth began in the early nineteenth century. This was still the case in the 1990s although there was increasing state interference and threats to the security of property rights were growing. These unfavourable developments restricted the freedom of market forces to generate adequate economic growth at a time when the population was increasing rapidly and gold production was falling.","PeriodicalId":83269,"journal":{"name":"The South African journal of economic history : [journal of the Economic History Society of Southern Africa]","volume":"23 1","pages":"1 - 15"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83279918","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The banking sector in the 1990s","authors":"Stuart Jones","doi":"10.1080/10113430309511161","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10113430309511161","url":null,"abstract":"In the last decade of the twentieth century the financial sector underwent very considerable structural change, affecting banking, insurance and the stock exchange. Market forces were the driving force behind the introduction of the changes, for what was happening in South Africa was already in progress outside the country. The unusual South African condition that influenced these developments was the installation of a communist dominated government committed to transformation, which, in practice, meant replacing Whites with Blacks.","PeriodicalId":83269,"journal":{"name":"The South African journal of economic history : [journal of the Economic History Society of Southern Africa]","volume":"9 1","pages":"238 - 274"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89956412","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The political economy of Zimbabwe 1996–2002","authors":"Raymond Parsons","doi":"10.1080/10113430209511146","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10113430209511146","url":null,"abstract":"Zimbabwe was once hailed as the most successful democracy in Africa, with a strong, if somewhat narrowly based, economy. President Robert Mugabe, the leader since independence in 1980, was praised by many as a man of vision who confronted historical imbalances with reconciliation for the sake of the country's stability and prosperity. Economic growth in Zimbabwe surpassed the average global growth rate in the 1980s, expanding at much higher than the average growth of Sub-Saharan Africa.","PeriodicalId":83269,"journal":{"name":"The South African journal of economic history : [journal of the Economic History Society of Southern Africa]","volume":"212 1","pages":"105 - 137"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89086422","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}