Our Publications
Reports in the Agenda 2024 Series are based on CDE’s many policy initiatives, commissioned research and think pieces, as well as consultations and workshops with experts and stakeholders.
This special project has been guided by the CDE Board, a select group of senior business leaders, a strategy group of analysts supplemented by other senior advisers.
The AGENDA 2024 series
The AGENDA 2024 series
October 15, 2024
ACTION SIX: Solve the SOE challenge is the sixth report in CDE’s AGENDA 2024:, ...
September 26, 2024
The country needs a clearer picture of what is holding the National Prosecuti, ...
September 3, 2024
The fourth report in CDE’s AGENDA 2024: Priorities for South Africa’s new gov, ...
July 25, 2024
The third report in CDE’s AGENDA 2024: Priorities for SA’s new government foc, ...
June 19, 2024
The second report in CDE’s new series, AGENDA 2024: Priorities for SA’s new g, ...
June 12, 2024
CDE’s new report, ACTION ONE: Reorganise the Presidency and the Cabinet is th, ...
June 5, 2024
The Centre for Development and Enterprise (CDE) today called on political dec, ...
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September 30, 2024
Raghuram Rajan, Professor of Finance at the University of Chicago’s Booth Sch, ...
March 6, 2024
Sir Michael Barber, founder and chairman of global advisory firm, Delivery As, ...
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March 6, 2024
Sir Michael Barber, internationally renowned as a leading expert on governanc, ...
February 5, 2024
Professor Ricardo Hausmann, founding director of Harvard University’s Growth , ...
November 15, 2023
The report, Growth Through Inclusion in South Africa was produced by the Harv, ...
October 30, 2023
CDE’s new report, A country in crisis: First steps towards a growth strategy,, ...
October 27, 2023
Jaime Saavedra, former head of the World Bank’s Global Education Practice div, ...
October 9, 2023
Dr Donald Kaberuka, former president of the African Development Bank and ex-m, ...
September 8, 2023
In June 2023, CDE held a roundtable discussion with key stakeholders on how l, ...
July 3, 2023
Michael Spence, winner of the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, Professor of , ...
June 26, 2023
South Africa’s future will be decided in our cities is a new report from CDE., ...
June 5, 2023
The latest report in CDE’s Growth Agenda series argues that slow economic gro, ...
April 19, 2023
Dr Moisés Naím, distinguished fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for Internatio, ...
March 28, 2023
In this series of five reports, CDE presents a comprehensive analysis of what, ...
January 24, 2023
Lawrence H. Summers, President Emeritus of Harvard University, former Treasur, ...
November 23, 2022
Edward Luce, US national editor and columnist at the Financial Times, spoke t, ...
October 26, 2022
Reuel Khoza, chairman of Discovery Bank, Dzana Investments and Assupol Insura, ...
September 28, 2022
Arvind Panagariya, Professor of Indian Political Economy at Columbia Universi, ...
September 5, 2022
Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the first African and the first woman Director-Genera, ...
July 26, 2022
Professor Andrés Velasco, dean of the School of Public Policy at the London S, ...
June 30, 2022
Francis Fukuyama, one of the world’s most prominent public intellectuals, spo, ...
June 7, 2022
There is no clarity about what proponents of a BIG want, but it seems like th, ...
May 12, 2022
Kgalema Motlanthe, former President of South Africa, spoke to CDE’s executive, ...
April 12, 2022
Sir Michael Barber, one of the world's experts on how to manage public sector, ...
February 28, 2022
Small business organisations in townships, inner city regions, and peri-urban, ...
February 15, 2022
Led by long-time friend of CDE, Professor Ricardo Hausmann, a team of develop, ...
February 7, 2022
South Africa’s infrastructure programme is a key pillar of the President’s ec, ...
January 20, 2022
Sir Mick Davis, chairman of Macsteel, spoke to CDE’s executive director Ann B, ...
November 30, 2021
Lesetja Kganyago, governor of the South African Reserve Bank (SARB), spoke to, ...
November 16, 2021
Localisation will not solve SA’s economic challenges, but will deepen them. T, ...
November 11, 2021
CDE’s interest in the proposed amendment to s25 of the Constitution extends f, ...
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November 9, 2021
For the first time, National Treasury called for public submissions prior to , ...
October 21, 2021
Nancy Birdsall, a key figure in the development world, spoke to CDE’s executi, ...
September 28, 2021
There are now 9.1 million people between 15 and 34 years of age who are not i, ...
September 14, 2021
Ed Glaeser, one of the world’s foremost urban economists, spoke to CDE’s exec, ...
August 19, 2021
Mavuso Msimang, ANC veteran and chairman of Corruption Watch, spoke to CDE’s , ...
July 8, 2021
Former Minister of Finance, Trevor Manuel, spoke to CDE’s executive director , ...
July 4, 2021
Sir Jeffrey Jowell, Emeritus Professor of Public Law at University College Lo, ...
June 29, 2021
Can small and micro businesses form the basis of a more inclusive economy in , ...
June 23, 2021
Lant Pritchett, renowned development economist, spoke to CDE’s executive dire, ...
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June 17, 2021
Youth unemployment in South Africa was already a crisis, but Covid-19 has tur, ...
May 21, 2021
Sir Paul Collier, one of the world’s most eminent development economists and , ...
May 11, 2021
Special economic zones can play an important role in creating new industries , ...
May 4, 2021
Martin Wolf, chief economics commentator at the Financial Times, spoke to CDE, ...
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April 7, 2021
All states need the power of expropriation in some instances, but expropriati, ...
April 1, 2021
Francis Fukuyama, one of the world’s leading intellectuals, spoke to CDE’s ex, ...
March 4, 2021
Montek Ahluwalia, the former Deputy Chair of India’s National Planning Commis, ...
January 18, 2021
Paul Romer, winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, spoke to, ...
November 17, 2020
Business needs to play a strategic role in improving the quality of learning , ...
November 10, 2020
South Africa needs a new approach to housing and urban development as the cur, ...
August 20, 2020
The Covid-19 pandemic has caused severe disruption to South Africa’s economy., ...
August 11, 2020
The Supplementary Budget Review advocates for a rapid fiscal consolidation, t, ...
August 4, 2020
South African mining is in decline. Norman Mbazima argues that if you mine ou, ...
June 13, 2020
Youth unemployment was identified as a national priority by President Cyril R, ...
June 9, 2020
Food supplies and poverty alleviation in the former homeland regions have bee, ...
May 28, 2020
The Covid-19 pandemic has had an extremely disruptive impact on education aro, ...
May 22, 2020
Covid-19: Are we asking the right questions about… Small businesses and their struggle for survival?
Covid-19: Are we asking the right questions about… Small businesses and their struggle for survival?
Small businesses face challenges during this crisis that are complex and vita, ...
May 22, 2020
Small business promotion is essential for achieving inclusive growth in South, ...
May 18, 2020
Unlocking the economy in the best way possible was the theme of a CDE webinar, ...
May 14, 2020
The Covid-19 pandemic and the measures we have taken to combat it are likely , ...
May 5, 2020
The Covid-19 crisis has resulted in a new and very complex situation around t, ...
April 29, 2020
South Africa's economic growth rate collapsed after the global financial cris, ...
April 7, 2020
Six postgraduate students at UCT (Zak Essa, Kiren Rutsch, Catherine Torringto, ...
March 18, 2020
The National Budget 2020 does precisely what CDE has called for over the past, ...
January 29, 2020
South Africa’s unemployment crisis is the deepest and most persistent in the , ...
December 2, 2019
Land reform is a contentious issue in South Africa. Since the July 2019 relea, ...
November 5, 2019
The medium-term budget policy statement tabled in Parliament on 30 October , ...
August 28, 2019
South Africa’s fiscal crisis is a result of rapidly rising public spending in, ...
August 15, 2019
The state and economic development remains a contested and evolving relations, ...
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August 15, 2019
Contemporary populism has increasingly become a global trend. Renowned scho, ...
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August 15, 2019
Getting to Denmark is now a widely adopted metaphor for the question of how t, ...
August 5, 2019
South Africa’s industrial policy has been in place for over a decade. It has , ...
June 25, 2019
Cities play a vital role in growth and development. Leading global economist,, ...
June 6, 2019
Eskom is facing a financial crisis. Dirk de Vos argues that Eskom’s highest p, ...
April 25, 2019
Business is crucial for growth and development. Agenda 2019: Business and Dev, ...
April 3, 2019
Agenda 2019: Tackling youth unemployment urges voters to find out what politi, ...
April 3, 2019
Cities are essential to growth. Agenda 2019: Creating cities of hope asks how, ...
March 6, 2019
Party and State in South Africa have a perverse relationship. Dr Mzukisi Qobo, ...
January 14, 2019
Labour intensive growth is vital to reducing poverty and inequality in South , ...
January 10, 2019
View the Full Report > View the Summary Report > , ...
November 9, 2018
Land reform requires balancing the need for visible redress against a realisti, ...
October 25, 2018
Land reform policy will fail if it ignores where the major demand for land li, ...
October 4, 2018
• Labour market reform is key to addressing South Africa’s structural unemploy, ...
October 1, 2018
As the jobs summit nears, dire employment figures underline the urgent need, ...
October 1, 2018
Jobs and more importantly those without jobs should be the focus of the 2018 J, ...
September 3, 2018
Eskom is commercially unsustainable, and the industry in which it operates is, ...
August 7, 2018
Manufacturing employment cannot be expected to generate the same level of empl, ...
July 20, 2018
Land reform (through both the state and the market) has made more progress tha, ...
June 6, 2018
VIEWPOINTS is a new series published by CDE in which we will be drawing on the, ...
May 9, 2018
South Africa urgently needs a new approach to deal with dangerously high pover, ...
May 8, 2018
The land restitution crisis is a dimension of land reform which has been pushe, ...
May 4, 2018
Land reform and rural development require a bold new approach to ensure that j, ...
August 17, 2017
Youth unemployment in South Africa is a national crisis. No Country for Young , ...
August 16, 2017
Youth unemployment is a national crisis involving millions of South Africans. , ...
August 15, 2017
Youth unemployment in South Africa is a human tragedy and a waste of economic , ...
August 8, 2017
Far too many people are trapped in poverty in middle-income countries like So, ...
August 7, 2017
Teacher professional standards are lacking in South Africa. A basic framework , ...
June 27, 2017
In the first quarter of 2017 the Centre for Development and Enterprise (CDE) i, ...
June 8, 2017
Ricardo Hausmann is one of the world’s leading experts on what drives economic, ...
February 2, 2017
A national minimum wage was mooted, investigated and ultimately recommended by, ...
October 20, 2016
The Centre for Development and Enterprise (CDE) welcomes the tone and orienta, ...
August 30, 2016
Low-fee independent schools are engaged in endless balancing act between keepi, ...
August 22, 2016
In March 2016, the Centre for Development and Enterprise invited Gurcharan Das, ...
April 10, 2016
The Growth Agenda identifies the national priorities for faster economic and e, ...
April 9, 2016
A job is by far the most powerful motor for inclusion and enhanced human digni, ...
April 8, 2016
Inclusive growth is central to achieving South Africa’s developmental goals, , ...
April 7, 2016
Cities produce more than 80 per cent of global economic output. No country has, ...
April 6, 2016
The only way out of the cycle of unemployment, poverty and inequality which is, ...
April 5, 2016
Business and government have a dysfunctional relationship in South Africa – a , ...
April 4, 2016
An export-processing zone (EPZ) for labour-intensive manufacturing firms shou, ...
January 29, 2016
Independent schools in South Africa are highly regulated. Legislation and regu, ...
October 1, 2015
Cities are centres of economic growth and opportunity in a globalizing wor, ...
September 22, 2015
Key Points: Teacher evaluation policy in South Africa is deeply flawed, re, ...
September 8, 2015
Key Points: Teacher evaluation is central to both assessing and improving , ...
July 8, 2015
Key Points: Low-fee private schools are challenged by strict regulatory re, ...
May 27, 2015
Key Points: Low-fee private schools are growing at a significant rate and , ...
March 31, 2015
Teachers demand is influenced by various factors, including demographic tre, ...
February 9, 2015
Mexico’s market reforms have been one of the “most ambitious reform program, ...
October 22, 2014
Key Points: Learner performance in mathematics is not strongly correlated , ...
September 26, 2014
Key Points: Inclusive growth in South Africa is anchored by its liberal de, ...
September 23, 2014
Key Points: The rise of the middle class in emerging democracies is an imp, ...
September 23, 2014
Key Points: Middle class is defined differently in India, Kenya, and South, ...
September 11, 2014
The democracies of the developing South – India, Brazil and South Africa – , ...
August 29, 2014
India became an independent democracy in 1947, but it took decades to unleash, ...
April 17, 2014
Key Points: Brazil’s economic trajectory since the start of the twentieth , ...
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March 26, 2014
Key Points: The evidence from India, Brazil and South Africa demonstrates , ...
March 10, 2014
Key Points: Cities have never been more important for human well-being and, ...
December 2, 2013
Key Points: Growth is essential for reducing inequality and unemployment. , ...
October 22, 2013
Key Points: Policy gridlock refers to a stalemate between government’s thr, ...
October 17, 2013
Key Points: Mathematics outcomes in South Africa are amongst the worst in , ...
September 30, 2013
Key Points: Africa’s economic future is a key question for anybody thinkin, ...
August 19, 2013
Prof Francis Fukuyama of Stanford University spoke about the difficulties o, ...
July 31, 2013
Key Points: Affordable private schools offer an alternative schooling opti, ...
July 22, 2013
Key Points: Contract schools are publicly funded and/or owned but privatel, ...
June 13, 2013
Key Points: A rethink of South Africa’s labour market is undertaken in thi, ...
June 13, 2013
Key Points: Extra maths tuition is growing as a result of the public educa, ...
June 5, 2013
Key Points: Job destruction in the clothing industry is happening at the l, ...
May 8, 2013
Key Points: Urbanisation is inevitable and desirable, and policies and pra, ...
April 11, 2013
Key Points: Graduate unemployment in South Africa is an exaggerated proble, ...
April 9, 2013
Why growth matters: How India’s growth acceleration has reduced poverty. Professor Arvind Panagariya
Why growth matters: How India’s growth acceleration has reduced poverty. Professor Arvind Panagariya
India’s experience of lifting millions of people out of poverty through acc, ...
March 19, 2013
Key Points: South Africa’s labour market is in crisis, with millions of pe, ...
December 13, 2012
The water supply system in South Africa – initially designed to extend acce, ...
November 6, 2012
Key Points: Youth unemployment is a national crisis that must be addressed, ...
November 5, 2012
Key Points: Teacher pay for performance programmes are on the rise around , ...
October 15, 2012
Key Points: Developing the higher education sector in South Africa is vita, ...
September 19, 2012
Brazil’s developmental success is of interest to South Africans because Braz, ...
July 19, 2012
Key Points: Inequality in South Africa is getting worse. “Inequality in So, ...
June 19, 2012
Key Points: Is concessionary finance an appropriate instrument for South A, ...
June 15, 2012
Key Points: Private schools increase school choices for the poor. Building, ...
May 30, 2012
South Africa should establish at least two large special economic zones (SE, ...
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April 11, 2012
The inventions and business processes produced by the emerging markets of , ...
April 11, 2012
Building on what works in education, April 2012 Vocational education in Sou, ...
April 11, 2012
Key Points: India, Brazil, and South Africa face enormous threats to their, ...
November 11, 2011
Key Points: Reforming healthcare in South Africa is an urgent and extremel, ...
September 12, 2011
Key Points: Schooling reform is necessary to urgently address the educatio, ...
September 6, 2011
Key Points: More teachers are urgently required in South Africa, especiall, ...
June 9, 2011
The unemployment crisis in South Africa is directly or indirectly at the ro, ...
February 13, 2011
Key Points: As a comparatively rich country in a poor region, South Africa, ...
November 13, 2010
Key Points: South Africa suffers from debilitating skills shortage. Its ow, ...
November 13, 2010
South Africa’s health sector has been in crisis for the past decade and the, ...
October 14, 2010
Key Points: Business is frequently painted as social outlaws who need fund, ...
October 13, 2010
Key Points: South African business spends a great deal of time and money o, ...
September 13, 2010
Key Points: Mathematics and science performance in school are vital to hig, ...
September 13, 2010
Key Points: Many talented children from disadvantaged backgrounds capable , ...
August 13, 2010
Poverty blights the lives of millions of South Africans. It represents a da, ...
August 13, 2010
Key Points: The growth of low-fee private schools catering for poorer sect, ...
November 13, 2009
Key Points: South Africa’s public service is failing due to incompetence o, ...
October 13, 2009
Key Points: Managing migration in South Africa has been ineffective due to, ...
September 13, 2009
Key Points: The South African education system is largely failing the comm, ...
May 27, 2009
The job crisis in South Africa is one of the worst in the world. The OCED s, ...
March 11, 2009
Despite the global economic crisis, the rate and quality of South Africa’s , ...
August 6, 2008
South Africa was one of the first regions to receive an injection of Pentec, ...
August 6, 2008
Key Points: Immigrants in Johannesburg bring migration issues into focus, , ...
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August 6, 2008
Key Points: Pentecostalism should be viewed as a positive resource for mod, ...
July 6, 2008
South Africa’s electricity crisis is a disaster for the country. Due to the, ...
May 7, 2008
Key Points: Shared growth can only be possible for an unequal society like, ...
May 7, 2008
Key Points: Land reform needs to make its beneficiaries and the country be, ...
March 7, 2008
Key Points: Migration from Zimbabwe to South Africa is driven by the polit, ...
March 6, 2008
Pentecostalism and its enduring durability, adaptability and dynamic intera, ...
February 7, 2008
Key Points: Land reform in South Africa has been a subject of intense rese, ...
October 7, 2007
Key Points: Race-based policies of redress are a prominent feature of our , ...
October 7, 2007
CDE published its first report on maths and science education in 2004. It f, ...
October 7, 2007
Key Points: A skills shortage of serious proportions faces South Africa. T, ...
August 8, 2007
Youth unemployment presents a massive challenge to social, economic, and poli, ...
July 7, 2007
Key Points: Youth unemployment levels in South Africa are far higher than , ...
June 7, 2007
Key Points: After ten years of good intentions, the result of the state-dr, ...
June 7, 2007
Key Points: The shortage of skilled people in South Africa is one of the m, ...
April 10, 2007
This study is aimed at establishing the reasons for the recurrence of viole, ...
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March 11, 2007
Key Points: AsgiSA is aimed at accelerating economic growth, and distribut, ...
February 11, 2007
Key Points: Skills, growth and migration policies can work together to imp, ...
January 11, 2007
Key Points: Black economic empowerment should be linked directly to the ex, ...
May 11, 2006
Key Points: There is a perception that South Africans regard immigrants wi, ...
April 11, 2006
Key Points: Making markets work for the poor (MMW4P) is not a radical new , ...
December 11, 2005
Key Points: The prospects for economic growth are determined by a wider ra, ...
November 11, 2005
Private schools in slums in Africa and Asia generate learning outcomes on a, ...
July 11, 2005
Key Points: There is an important ‘missing link’ in South Africa’s develop, ...
May 12, 2005
Key Points: The traditional welfare state is receding. Changing demographi, ...
May 12, 2005
Land reform is a key political issue mostly for the African majority whose , ...
March 12, 2005
CDE offered an appraisal of the Immigration Amendment Act of 2004 and the d, ...
February 12, 2005
Key Points: Globalisation promotes desirable objectives such as economic g, ...
November 14, 2004
Key Points: Maths and science education in South Africa is a national cris, ...
July 14, 2004
Key Points: South Africans deliberated on the first decade of democratic r, ...
June 14, 2004
Key Points: South Africa does not fare well in measures of entrepreneurshi, ...
November 8, 2003
Local government in South Africa has previously faced serious questions aro, ...
September 24, 2003
Private schools improve the quality and range of education available to bot, ...
September 14, 2003
Key Points: American public and private school voucher programmes are revi, ...
May 18, 2003
Key Points: South Africa’s emerging African middle class is a positive sig, ...
May 18, 2003
Key Points: Over the past decade, a highly significant new approach to man, ...
May 18, 2003
Key Points: Stephen Goldsmith is a member of a group of mayors who, in the, ...
April 18, 2003
Key Points: South Africa is in the middle of the long and difficult transi, ...
March 18, 2003
Key Points: Post-apartheid local government has experienced two full gener, ...
October 18, 2002
Johannesburg is considered a ‘slipping world city’ as its future as an Afri, ...
October 18, 2002
Key Points: South Africa’s immigration law that replaced the anti-immigrat, ...
May 19, 2002
Key Points: In the 1990s, the AIDS epidemic began to have a devastating im, ...
May 14, 2002
Restructuring higher education in South Africa was mooted in the early 2000, ...
November 19, 2001
Key Points: The reason capitalism has triumphed in the West while sputteri, ...
October 19, 2001
Key Points: The Bredell land invasion must be understood primarily in term, ...
September 19, 2001
Key Points: Corruption in South Africa remains an issue because government, ...
August 19, 2001
South Africa’s skills crisis means that our immigration needs have changed , ...
March 19, 2001
Key Points: South Africa is failing to achieve sustained high rates of eco, ...
November 18, 2000
Local government reform is required to restructure South Africa’s socio-eco, ...
May 19, 2000
Key Points: The government has an important responsibility in respect of H, ...
March 19, 2000
Key Points: Suggested amendments to the Immigration Bill are based on the , ...
February 19, 2000
Key Points: In becoming the world’s most promising emerging market, a Whit, ...
November 19, 1999
Key Points: South Africa’s post-1994 housing policy is working well, parti, ...
September 19, 1999
Key Points: Government is not doing enough to help small business. It has , ...
August 19, 1999
Key Points: Policy-making in the period 1999 to 2004 will be critical for , ...
March 24, 1999
Ministerial resignation should be seen as a measure of accountability to pa, ...
January 19, 1999
Key Points: Cultural globalisation is associated with economic globalisati, ...
October 23, 1998
Census ’96 marks a significant advance on earlier censuses. Its conceptuali, ...
October 20, 1998
Key Points: Displaced urban areas are not towns or cities if they lack the, ...
October 20, 1998
Key Points: Job creation is a top priority for South Africa. Unemployment , ...
October 20, 1998
Key Points: Are South Africa’s economic policies in line with internationa, ...
July 20, 1998
Key Points: Pretoria has traditionally been perceived as the Apartheid cap, ...
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June 20, 1998
Key Points: The White Paper on local government fails to resolve the tensi, ...
May 20, 1998
Key Points: Affirmative action has worked substantially well in the USA, b, ...
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November 20, 1997
The Green Paper on Local Government is short on substance and lacks the kin, ...
October 20, 1997
Key Points: South Africa is in debate about opening its boundaries to skil, ...
June 20, 1997
Key Points: The draft green paper correctly rejects the misconception of t, ...
June 20, 1997
The South African migration policy debate is centred on four critical issue, ...
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June 20, 1997
Key Points: A new approach to cross-border migration in South Africa aims , ...
April 20, 1997
Key Points: Schooling in South Africa is making progress, but not inside t, ...
February 13, 1997
Atlanta in the United States of America has managed to achieve a critical m, ...
November 21, 1996
Key Points: To be internationally economically competitive, South Africa n, ...
October 27, 1996
Key Points: Unemployment in South Africa is very high, and the formal sect, ...
October 21, 1996
Key Points: Durban has a positive economic record. Despite the province’s , ...
October 21, 1996
Cities remain crucial locations for the production of goods and services. T, ...
July 29, 1996
Closure of the Reconstruction and Development Programme (RDP) Office was pr, ...
July 21, 1996
Success in development is primarily determined by government policies that , ...
May 21, 1996
Key Points: Business as an activity, a concept and social actor has been r, ...
May 21, 1996
Key Points: Small towns are a neglected component of the urban hierarchy i, ...
May 12, 1996
'Business has often failed to understand its changing relationship with the, ...
May 9, 1996
Housing delivery in a transitional political environment like South Africa , ...
February 21, 1996
South Africa’s cities are the engine rooms of the national economy. The fut, ...
January 31, 1996
South Africa’s NGOs are characterised by dependency on foreign funding. In , ...
November 1, 1995
Building policy skills in South Africa will enable the country to tackle it, ...
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