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South Africa Economic Update: Tertiary Education Enrollments Must Rise

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dc.contributor.authorWorld Bank
dc.date.accessioned2019-02-08T16:44:28Z
dc.date.available2019-02-08T16:44:28Z
dc.date.issued2019-01
dc.description.abstractSouth Africa's much anticipated economic rebound in 2018 did not occur. While substantial efforts by the authorities to strengthen governance of public resources and stabilize the fiscal situation helped the economy to not contract further, economic growth remained tepid with a technical recession (two successive quarters of negative economic growth) in the first half of 2018. GDP growth is expected at below 1 percent in 2018, down from an already low 1.3 percent in 2017. A number of exogenous factors contributed to this poor growth performance. Domestically, climate variations such as a prolonged drought in the Western Cape where harvests were delayed exerted a huge toll on agricultural production. Externally, mounting trade tensions between the United States and China, and tightening global financial conditions contributed to slowing the pace of foreign financial inflows to South Africa while lessening the demand for its exports. Rising world oil prices also exerted strong pressure on the balance of payments and domestic prices, depressing private consumption. These negative developments, however, do not conceal the fact that South Africa's growth challenge is deep-seated and largely structural. To grow faster and sustainably, the economy will need to be more inclusive, requiring the participation of a greater share of the population mainly through job creation. Furthermore, persistent inequality of income and of opportunity will continue to raise pressures for redistribution of limited resources that are drawn from a small tax base. Radical policy demands are more likely in a stagnant economy, fuel policy uncertainty and deter private investment. At the Presidential Jobs Summit and the South African Investment Conference held in October 2018 agreements were made on actions that are expected to enable job creation and to attract higher levels of investment, including interalia, education and skills interventions, and initiatives to reduce policy uncertainty on land reform, mining and black economic empowerment.en
dc.identifierhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/173091547659025030/South-Africa-Economic-Update-Enrollments-in-Tertiary-Education-Must-Rise
dc.identifier.doi10.1596/31241
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10986/31241
dc.languageEnglish
dc.publisherWorld Bank, Pretoria
dc.rightsCC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holderWorld Bank
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo
dc.subjectTERTIARY EDUCATION
dc.subjectEDUCATION FINANCE
dc.subjectECONOMIC GROWTH
dc.subjectECONOMIC OUTLOOK
dc.subjectLABOR MARKET
dc.subjectFISCAL TRENDS
dc.subjectMONETARY POLICY
dc.subjectINFLATION
dc.subjectTRADE
dc.subjectPSET
dc.subjectVOCATIONAL EDUCATION
dc.subjectVOCATIONAL TRAINING
dc.titleSouth Africa Economic Updateen
dc.title.subtitleTertiary Education Enrollments Must Riseen
dc.typeReporten
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okr.crossref.titleSouth Africa Economic Update
okr.date.disclosure2019-01-22
okr.doctypeEconomic & Sector Work::Economic Updates and Modeling
okr.doctypeEconomic & Sector Work
okr.docurlhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/173091547659025030/South-Africa-Economic-Update-Enrollments-in-Tertiary-Education-Must-Rise
okr.guid173091547659025030
okr.identifier.doi10.1596/31241
okr.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1596/31241
okr.identifier.externaldocumentum090224b0868ab8f6_3_0
okr.identifier.internaldocumentum30764633
okr.identifier.report133785
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okr.language.supporteden
okr.pdfurlhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/173091547659025030/pdf/133785-revised-jan22.pdfen
okr.region.administrativeAfrica
okr.region.countrySouth Africa
okr.topicMacroeconomics and Economic Growth::Economic Growth
okr.topicMacroeconomics and Economic Growth::Fiscal & Monetary Policy
okr.topicPoverty Reduction::Employment and Shared Growth
okr.topicSocial Protections and Labor::Labor Markets
okr.topicSocial Protections and Labor::Skills Development and Labor Force Training
okr.topicSocial Protections and Labor::Vocational & Technical Education
okr.unitSouthern Africa (GMTA4)
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