Why Isn't South Africa Growing Faster? A Comparative Approach

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IMF working paper ; WP/09/25

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CONTENTS; I. Introduction; II. Major Constraints on Growth in the Last Decade; A. First Decomposition: Demand Components of GDP; List of Figures; Figure 1. Contributions to GDP Growth; B. Productivity and Labor Input Characteristics; List of Tables; Table 1. Normalized Contributions of Demand Components to GDP Growth (percent); C. Capital, Labor, and Total Factor Productivity; Figure 2. Contributions to GDP Growth (1996-2006) (Percent); Table 2. Employment and Labor Force in South Africa and Comparators (average 1996- 2006) (Percent); Table 3. Results of the Third Decomposition (Percent)

III. Investment Determinants in South Africa Compared with the PanelTable 4. Production-Function Decomposition in South Africa (Percent); Figure 3. Gross Capital Formation (Percent of GDP); Figure 4. Real Interest Rate (Percent); IV. Releasing the Saving Constraint on Investment and Growth; A. National Saving in South Africa; Table 5. Doing Business Indicators (2003-2006); Figure 5. National Saving in South Africa (Percent of GNDI); Figure 6. Public and Private Saving Rates (Percent of GNDI); Figure 7. Saving Rates by Institutional Sector (Percent of GNDI)

B. An Accounting Decomposition of the Corporate Saving RateTable 6. Comparison of Saving-GNDI Ratios in South Africa and the Panel; C. Economic Determinants of Private Saving; Table 7. Average Long-term Contributions of the Explanatory Variables to the Private Saving Rate: Results for South Africa and the Panel and the Resulting Gap; Table 8. Average Long-term Contributions of the Explanatory Variables to the Decrease in the Private Saving Rate in South Africa; V. Conclusions and Policy Implications; Appendix

Table 9. Results: Level and Variations of the Accounting Components of the Corporate Saving RateReferences

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