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Record Nr.

UNINA9910468237303321

Autore

Gumata Nombulelo

Titolo

The Secular Decline of the South African Manufacturing Sector / / Nombulelo Gumata, Eliphas Ndou

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham, Switzerland : , : Palgrave Macmillan, , [2020]

©2020

ISBN

3-030-55148-2

Edizione

[1st ed. 2020.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XXXIII, 370 p. 258 illus.)

Disciplina

338.40968

Soggetti

Manufacturing industries - South Africa

Economic development - South Africa

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

1. Introduction -- 2. Does trade-openness affect the role of the domestic output-gap on inflation? If so, what is the role of the global out-put gap? -- 3. Does an increase in trade-openness and import-penetration affect income inequality? Evidence from the manufacturing sector output growth and employment growth -- 4. What is the impact of Chinese import penetration on the South African manufacturing sector? -- 5. What is the impact of global trade uncertainty and the exchange rate volatility on the manufacturing sector? -- 6. How does activity in manufacturing sector respond to trade and exchange rate shocks? Evidence from trade-openness and import penetration thresholds -- 7. What is the impact of imports by stage of production on the manufacturing sector output and employment growth? -- 8. What is the impact of imports by stage of production and the manufacturing sector investment growth? -- 9. What is the impact of global trade uncertainty and the exchange rate volatility on the manufacturing sector? -- 10. What is the impact of commodity price booms and capital flows surges episodes on the manufacturing sector? -- 11. What are the effects of capital flow shocks on the domestic manufacturing sector? -- 12. Does the persistent widening in the trade deficit explain the decline in the manufacturing sector output and employment growth? -- 13. Do credit booms, financial and credit cycles affect activity in the manufacturing sector? -- 14. What is the



role of business and consumer confidence in amplifying the transmission of positive shocks into the manufacturing sector? -- 15. Do positive investment shocks in the manufacturing sector result in increased labour absorption and participation rates? -- 16. Did the decline in the excess capital adequacy ratio amplify the monetary policy easing and credit cycles on activity in the manufacturing sector? -- 17. Did the increase in excess liquid assets of banks amplify the effects of tight macro-prudential tools on activity in the manufacturing sector? -- 18. Did loose loan-to-value and repayment-to-income ratios amplify commodity price booms on activity in the manufacturing sector? -- 19. Do tight loan-to-value and repayment-to-income ratios in amplify the effects of tight monetary policy cycles on the manufacturing sector activity? -- 20. What is the impact of selected financial regulation and macro-prudential tools on credit to the manufacturing sector? -- 21. Did monetary policy cycles propagate the impact of credit and financial cycles on activity in the manufacturing sector during 2005Q1 and 2008Q3? -- 22. What was the role of demand shocks, supply shocks, productivity shocks and monetary policy shocks on the manufacturing sector during 2005Q1 and 2008Q3? -- 23. The role of electricity price shocks on the manufacturing sector output and employment growth -- 24. What is the impact of the manufacturing sector output and sub-sector employment growth on the labour absorption and participation rates? -- 25. What is the nature of the output-employment in the manufacturing sector? Evidence from the manufacturing subsectors -- 26. What are the effects of the minimum wage and productivity growth on the manufacturing sector output and employment growth? -- 27. What is the impact of market income concentration and the mergers and acquisitions channel on the manufacturing sector?.

Sommario/riassunto

This book examines the global and domestic factors that have influenced the decline of South African manufacturing. Quantitative and econometric techniques are used to analyse the macroeconomic conditions that derive improved performance within the manufacturing sector. Empirical evidence is used to set out policy recommendations that would allow the South African National Development Plan to meet its objectives. This books aims to bring together analysis of industrial policy, competition policy, and merger remedies to produce a framework on how to preserve a competitive environment and support output, investment, and employment growth. It is relevant to those interested in African, development, and labour economics.



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910154309603321

Autore

Liggins Emma

Titolo

Odd Women? : spinsters, lesbians and widows in British women's fiction, 1850s-1930s

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Manchester : , : Manchester University Press, , 2015

ISBN

1-78170-685-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Classificazione

HG 431

HL 2045

HL 2865

HM 4815

Disciplina

810/820

Soggetti

English fiction - 19th century - History and criticism

English fiction - 20th century - History and criticism

English fiction - Women authors - History and criticism

Women in literature

Single women in literature

Widows in literature

Lesbians in literature

English

Languages & Literatures

English Literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Female redundancy, widowhood and the mid-Victorian heroine -- Bachelor girls, mistresses and the New Woman heroine -- Spinster heroines, aunts and widowed mothers, 1910-39 -- The misfit lesbian heroine of inter-war fiction -- Professional spinsters, older women and widowed heroines in the 1930s.

Sommario/riassunto

Women outside marriage between 1850 and the Second World War were seen as abnormal, threatening, superfluous and incomplete, whilst also being hailed as 'women of the future'. Before 1850 odd women were marginalised, minor characters, yet by the 1930s spinsters, lesbians and widows had become heroines. This book considers how Victorian



and modernist women's writing challenged the heterosexual plot and reconfigured conceptualisations of public and private space in order to valorise female oddity.