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Creating employment and reducing emissions: Options for South Africa

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  • Harald Winkler

    (Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment and research associate, Policy Research in International Services and Manufacturing (PRISM), University of Cape)

  • Anthony Black

    (PRISM, School of Economics, University of Cape Town.)

Abstract

Apart from having amongst the highest rates of unemployment and inequality in the world, South Africa is also a highly emissions-intensive economy. This paper examines the key drivers of the historical growth path that led to an economy based heavily on mining, mineral processing and heavy industry, subsidised by cheap electricity. It then considers how South Africa could shift to a more employment-intensive and low-emissions development path. An integrated employment and mitigation strategy is required. This means aligning the two objectives, seeking synergies across industrial, energy and climate policy, while at the same time managing trade-offs.

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  • Harald Winkler & Anthony Black, 2021. "Creating employment and reducing emissions: Options for South Africa," SARChI-ID Working Papers 2021-06, SARChI Industrial Development (SARChI-ID), University of Johannesburg (UJ), revised Sep 2021.
    • Handle: RePEc:adz:wpaper:202106
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    JEL classification:

    • E24 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Employment; Unemployment; Wages; Intergenerational Income Distribution; Aggregate Human Capital; Aggregate Labor Productivity
    • Q54 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Climate; Natural Disasters and their Management; Global Warming
    • I3 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty
    • L52 - Industrial Organization - - Regulation and Industrial Policy - - - Industrial Policy; Sectoral Planning Methods
    • J18 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Public Policy

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