The Investment Climate in South Africa? Regulatory Issues : Some Insights from the High-Growth, Export-oriented SME Sector

The Investment Climate in South Africa? Regulatory Issues : Some Insights from the High-Growth, Export-oriented SME Sector

Small and medium enterprises in South Africa consider the local investment climate overregulated. The principal problems identified by SMEs are complicated labor regulations, skills development issues, difficulties accessing domestic capital and pressures, including regulations, to pursue an empower...

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Main Author: Christianson, David
Language:English
Published: Washington, DC: World Bank 2012
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World Development Report 2005
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/9226
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spelling okr-10986-92262021-04-23T14:02:44Z The Investment Climate in South Africa? Regulatory Issues : Some Insights from the High-Growth, Export-oriented SME Sector Christianson, David World Development Report 2005 Small and medium enterprises in South Africa consider the local investment climate overregulated. The principal problems identified by SMEs are complicated labor regulations, skills development issues, difficulties accessing domestic capital and pressures, including regulations, to pursue an empowerment agenda. Labor regulation burdens in particular affect investment decisions made by SMEs and contribute to capital intensive "jobless" growth. While there may have been good reasons for new regulations to address the distortions of apartheid, this has been done with little reference to principles of regulatory best practice. 2012-06-26T15:41:59Z 2012-06-26T15:41:59Z 2003 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/9226 English CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank Washington, DC: World Bank Africa
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The Investment Climate in South Africa? Regulatory Issues : Some Insights from the High-Growth, Export-oriented SME Sector
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description Small and medium enterprises in South Africa consider the local investment climate overregulated. The principal problems identified by SMEs are complicated labor regulations, skills development issues, difficulties accessing domestic capital and pressures, including regulations, to pursue an empowerment agenda. Labor regulation burdens in particular affect investment decisions made by SMEs and contribute to capital intensive "jobless" growth. While there may have been good reasons for new regulations to address the distortions of apartheid, this has been done with little reference to principles of regulatory best practice.
author Christianson, David
author_facet Christianson, David
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title The Investment Climate in South Africa? Regulatory Issues : Some Insights from the High-Growth, Export-oriented SME Sector
title_short The Investment Climate in South Africa? Regulatory Issues : Some Insights from the High-Growth, Export-oriented SME Sector
title_full The Investment Climate in South Africa? Regulatory Issues : Some Insights from the High-Growth, Export-oriented SME Sector
title_fullStr The Investment Climate in South Africa? Regulatory Issues : Some Insights from the High-Growth, Export-oriented SME Sector
title_full_unstemmed The Investment Climate in South Africa? Regulatory Issues : Some Insights from the High-Growth, Export-oriented SME Sector
title_sort investment climate in south africa? regulatory issues : some insights from the high-growth, export-oriented sme sector
publisher Washington, DC: World Bank
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