In 2007 five new entrants were awarded licences to compete with the incumbent firm in South Africa's pay-TV market. This paper assesses whether the pay-TV market could be competitive by studying the South African market and European Commission's case involving Newscorp and Telepiù. The pay-TV...

This is a study assessing the attractiveness of South Africa as a manufacturing destination relative to other BRICS countries. The study followed a quantitative research approach by analysing a time series of World Bank data collected for the BRICS countries for the period between 1991 and 2010....

For a large proportion of the South African population social welfare grants are an important source of income. Rapid increases in government expenditure on social security between 2000 and 2006 has further increased poor households’ reliance on welfare grants and has been important in the fi...

This country study evaluates the experience of the South African economy with respect to growth, poverty and inequality trends since the advent of democracy in 1994. The post-apartheid government took a definite turn toward greater spending on social security, while job creation and a narrowing...

What prevents the unemployed in Khayelitsha, South Africa from trying self-employment? Perceptions of a small group of academic economists are presented and compared to the perceptions of unemployed Khayelitsha residents themselves. The largest differences in view-points are that a) academics...

For a large proportion of the South African population, social welfare grants are an important source of income. Since 2000, rapid increases in government expenditure on social security have further enhanced the contribution of welfare grants to the income of poor households and have thus been...