Understanding and characterizing the services sector in South Africa: An overview

Haroon Bhorat, Francois Steenkamp, Christopher Rooney, Nomsa Kachingwe and Adrienne Lees

No wp-2016-157, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: Services; Economic development; South Africa; Economic growth; Structural change (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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