| Description |
1 electronic resource (xxviii, 382 pages) |
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Framing structural transformation in South African and beyond / Anotnio Andreoni, Pamela Mondliwa, Simon Roberts, Fiona Tregenna -- Structural change in South Africa: a historical sectoral perspective / Nimrod Zalk -- Metals, machinery, and mining equipment industries in South Africa: the relationship between power, governance, and technological cababilities / Antonio Andreoni, Lauralyn Kaziboni, Simon Roberts -- Leveraging plastics linkages for diversification: an assessment of backward linkages from polymers and forward linkages to the automotive industry / Jason Bell, Lorenza Monaco, Pamela Mondliwa -- Government policy in multinational-dominated global value chains: structural transformation within the South African automotive industry / Justin Barnes, Anthony Black, Lorenza Monaco -- The industrialization of freshness and structural transformation in South African fruit exports / Christopher Cramer, Shingie Chisoro-Dube -- Sustainability and green capital accumulation: lessons from the South African wine value chain / Stefano Ponte -- Structural transformation, economic power, and inequality in South Africa / Sumayya Goga, Pamela Mondliwa -- Black economic empowerment, barriers to entry, and economic transformation in South Africa / Thando Vilakazi, Teboho Bosiu -- Profitability without investment: how financialization undermines structural transformation in South Africa / Antonio Andreoni, Nishal Robb, Sophie van Huellen -- The middle-income trap and premature deindustrialization in South Africa / Antonio Andreoni, Fiona Tregenna -- Digitalization, industrialization, and skills development: opportunities and challenges for middle-income countries / Antonio Andreoni, Justin Barnes, Anthony Black, Timothy Sturgeon -- Global value chains, 'in-out-in' industrialization, and the global patterns of sectoral value addition / Antonio Andreoni, Keun Lee, Sofia Torreggiani -- The political economy of strucutral transformation: political settlements and industrial policy in South Africa / Pamela Mondliwa, Simon Roberts -- Towards a new industrial policy for structural transformation / Antonio Andreoni, Pamela Mondliwa, Simon Roberts, Fiona Tregenna |
| Summary |
"Taking South Africa as an important case study of the challenges of structural transformation, the book offers a new micro-meso level framework and evidence linking country-specific and global dynamics of change, with a focus on the current challenges and opportunities faced by middle-income countries. Detailed analyses of industry groupings and interests in South Africa reveal the complex set of interlocking country-specific factors which have hampered structural transformation over several decades, but also the emerging productive areas and opportunities for structural change. The structural transformation trajectory of South Africa presents a unique country case, given its industrial structure, concentration, and highly internationalized economy, as well as the objective of black economic empowerment. The book links these micro-meso dynamics to the global forces driving economic, institutional, and social change. These include digital industrialization, global value-chain consolidation, financialization, and environmental and other sustainability challenges which are reshaping structural transformation dynamics across middle-income countries like South Africa. While these new drivers of change are disrupting existing industries and interests in some areas, in others they are reinforcing existing trends and configurations of power. The book analyses the ways in which both the domestic and global drivers of structural transformation shape--and, in some cases, are shaped by--a country's political settlement and its evolution. By focusing on the political economy of structural transformation, the book disentangles the specific dynamics underlying the South African experience of the middle-income country conundrum. In so doing, it brings to light the broader challenges faced by similar countries in achieving structural transformation via industrial policies"--Publisher's description |
| Analysis |
structural transformation, South Africa, industrial policy, role of the state, political economy, sectoral value chains, digitalization, middle-income countries, inclusive development |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Description based on print version record; resource not viewed |
| Subject |
Economic development -- South Africa.
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Microeconomics.
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Economic development
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Economic history
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Microeconomics
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| SUBJECT |
South Africa -- Economic conditions.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125465
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| Subject |
South Africa
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Andreoni, Antonio, editor
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Mondliwa, Pamela, editor
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Roberts, Simon, 1969- editor.
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Tregenna, Fiona, editor
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| LC no. |
2021758765 |
| ISBN |
9780192646750 |
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0192646753 |
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9780191915352 |
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0191915351 |
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0192646761 |
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9780192646767 |
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