An Inquiry into Cities and Their Role in Subnational Economic Growth in South Africa

Wim Naudé and Waldo Krugell

No RP2004-08, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

Abstract: South Africa is characterized by significant inequality in spatial economic activity. Whether future growth and development on a subnational level in South Africa will be such as to reduce this inequality may depend on the economic growth and development of South Africa's largest cities. Our local economic growth empirics show some indications of conditional convergence in output between poorer towns as well as overall between all cities and towns.

Keywords: Economic development; Regional economics; Regional planning; Urbanization (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004
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