Accelerated Land Reform, Mining, Growth, Unemployment and Inequality in South Africa

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Does the Consideration of Nominal Wage Growth Imply a High Level of Inflation Inertia or Persistence inflation inertia or persistence Compared to Consumer Price Inflation?

Chapter 3 Wage and Consumer Price Inflation During Exchange Rate Appreciation and Depreciation Episodes Wage and consumer price inflation during exchange rate appreciation and depreciation episodes

Chapter 4 An Evaluation of How the Inflation Targeting Framework inflation targeting framework Has Performed in South Africa

Chapter 5 Is There a Case for Nominal GDP Growth Targeting in South Africa and Abandoning Inflation Targeting a case for nominal GDP growth targeting in South Africa ?

Chapter 6 How Does Nominal GDP Growth Respond to Various Shocks

Chapter 7 Are High NGDP Growth Targets high NGDP growth targets Consistent With a Dual Mandate of Low Inflation and Maximum Employment Growth and a Low Unemployment Rate dual mandate of maximum employment growth and a low unemployment rate ?

Chapter 8 What Is the Nature of the Output-Employment-Unemployment Nexus in South Africa? Evidence from Various Approaches to Okun’s Law Okun’s Law

Chapter 9 The Impact of Structural Change structural change on the South African Economy: Evidence from the Structural Change Indices

Chapter 10 The Impact of Structural Change on the South African Economy: Evidence from the McMillan and Rodrik (2011) Labour Productivity Decomposition Approach McMillan and Rodrik (2011) labour productivity decomposition approach

Chapter 11 How Has the Intensity of the Ability of Commodity-Specific Output Growth to Create Jobs Evolved? Implications for the Mining Sector as a “Sunrise Industry”

Chapter 12 Is Export-Led Growth a Necessary but Insufficient Condition for Job Creation in the Mining Sector? Does This Mean That There Is a Strong Case for Beneficiation?

Chapter 13 The Impact of Mining Commodity Price Booms and Sharp Exchange Rate Depreciation Episodes on Mining Output and Employment Growth

Chapter 14 The Role of the Exchange Rate on Investment Growth in the Mining Sector: Evidence from the Balance Sheet Hypothesis

Chapter 15 The Role of the Exchange Rate Volatility Shocks on the Mining Sector

Chapter 16 The Role of Policy Uncertainty, Low Confidence and the Mining Charter in the Transmission of Positive Shocks to Commodity Prices in the Mining Sector

Chapter 17 What Are the Mechanisms and Channels Through Which the Mining Sector Adjusted to an Increase in the Binding Minimum Wage binding minimum wage in 2014?

Chapter 18 Land Reform, Redistribution and Agricultural Investment Growth: What Are Implications for the National Development Plan Output and Employment Targets?

Chapter 19 What Is the Role of Food Commodity Price Booms and Busts in the Agricultural Sector? Implications for Monetary Policy

Chapter 20 What Is the Role of Trade Liberalisation trade liberalisation and Food Commodity Price Booms in the Agricultural Sector? Implications for the Export-Led Growth Strategy

Chapter 21 Is the Agricultural Sector Sensitive to the Exchange Rate Depreciation and Volatility Shocks: Evidence from the Balance Sheet Channel

Chapter 22 What Is the Impact of a Binding Minimum Wage on the Agricultural Sector?

Chapter 23 Social Income Grants, Population Dynamics and Gender Distribution in the Agricultural Sector Employment gender distribution in the agricultural sector employment

Chapter 24 Land Redistributed between 1994 and 2017, the Production Function the production function and the Evolution of Area Planted in Various Agricultural Sector Commodities

Chapter 25 The Interaction between the Minimum Wage, Social Income Grants, Household Consumption and the  Gini Coefficient Gini coefficient

Chapter 26 Can Accelerated Land Reform accelerated land reform and The Increase in Hectares Planted an increase in hectares planted Policy Tools Help Increase Employment Growth and Reduce Income Inequality?

Chapter 27 The Transmission of Shocks to Farmland Prices, Interest Rates and the Confidence Channels in the Agricultural Sector confidence channels in the agricultural sector

Chapter 28 The Land Bank Balance Sheet Land bank balance sheet and the Transmission of Shocks to the Agricultural Sector

Chapter 29 Is There a Role that Lower-Tier Banks Can Play in Complementing the Land Bank Development Mandate of the Agricultural Sector Value Chain?

Chapter 30 The Impact of Financial Regulations and Macroprudential Tools financial regulations and macro prudential tools on the Funding of the Agricultural Sector Growth

Chapter 31 The Interaction Between the Financial Sector Regulatory Framework, Property Rights Clause and the South African Reserve Bank Mandate property rights clause and the South African Reserve Bank mandate