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Accounting for South Africa's remarkable growth deterioration and how growth can be restored

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  • Roy Havemann

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Uses a growth accounting framework to analyse the decline in South Africa's economic growth over the past two decades. The study highlights weak productivity and investment as the main drivers of the slowdown.

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  • Roy Havemann, 2025. "Accounting for South Africa's remarkable growth deterioration and how growth can be restored," Research Notes 202505, Bureau for Economic Research Impumelelo Growth Lab.
    • Handle: RePEc:cxs:wpaper:202505
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    • O47 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity - - - Empirical Studies of Economic Growth; Aggregate Productivity; Cross-Country Output Convergence
    • O55 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economywide Country Studies - - - Africa
    • E22 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Investment; Capital; Intangible Capital; Capacity

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