Bhorat, Haroon; Lilenstein, Kezia; Oosthuizen, Morné; … - 2020
This paper evaluates structural change, inequality dynamics, and industrial policy in South Africa between 1960 and the … present day. We find that South Africa experienced growth-enhancing structural transformation until the early 1970s, before … entering a period of premature deindustrialization. Today, the services sector has become the primary driver of growth and …