The economy and poverty in the twentieth century in South Africa

dc.contributor.authorNattrass, Nicoli
dc.contributor.authorSeekings, Jeremy
dc.date.accessioned2016-07-05T15:23:18Z
dc.date.available2016-07-05T15:23:18Z
dc.date.issued2010
dc.date.updated2016-05-26T08:24:23Z
dc.description.abstractThe South African economy experienced substantial growth and change over the course of the twentieth century. By the time of Union in 1910, gold-mining on the Witwatersrand had already and rapidly transformed what had been a peripheral agricultural economy into an industrialising economy with a strong minerals export sector.? Gold attracted British capital and European immigrants, and made possible secondary industrialisation and four decades of sustained economic growth in the middle of the century. Between the early 1930s and early 1970s, the South African economy grew approximately ten-fold in real terms, and gross domestic product (GDP) per capita rose steadily (see Figure 1).? At the end of the apartheid era, in 1994, South Africa accounted for almost exactly one-half of the total GDP of sub-Saharan Africa (UNDP, 1997: Table 25).en_ZA
dc.identifier.apacitationNattrass, N., & Seekings, J. (2010). <i>The economy and poverty in the twentieth century in South Africa</i> University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Centre for Social Science Research(CSSR). Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/20222en_ZA
dc.identifier.chicagocitationNattrass, Nicoli, and Jeremy Seekings <i>The economy and poverty in the twentieth century in South Africa.</i> University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Centre for Social Science Research(CSSR), 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/20222en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationNattrass, N., & Seekings, J. (2010). The economy and poverty in the twentieth century in South Africa. Centre for Social Science Research, University of Cape Town.en_ZA
dc.identifier.ris TY - Working Paper AU - Nattrass, Nicoli AU - Seekings, Jeremy AB - The South African economy experienced substantial growth and change over the course of the twentieth century. By the time of Union in 1910, gold-mining on the Witwatersrand had already and rapidly transformed what had been a peripheral agricultural economy into an industrialising economy with a strong minerals export sector.? Gold attracted British capital and European immigrants, and made possible secondary industrialisation and four decades of sustained economic growth in the middle of the century. Between the early 1930s and early 1970s, the South African economy grew approximately ten-fold in real terms, and gross domestic product (GDP) per capita rose steadily (see Figure 1).? At the end of the apartheid era, in 1994, South Africa accounted for almost exactly one-half of the total GDP of sub-Saharan Africa (UNDP, 1997: Table 25). DA - 2010 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2010 T1 - The economy and poverty in the twentieth century in South Africa TI - The economy and poverty in the twentieth century in South Africa UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/20222 ER - en_ZA
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dc.identifier.vancouvercitationNattrass N, Seekings J. The economy and poverty in the twentieth century in South Africa. 2010 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/20222en_ZA
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dc.publisher.departmentCentre for Social Science Research(CSSR)en_ZA
dc.publisher.facultyFaculty of Humanitiesen_ZA
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Cape Town
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