- Title
- An assessment of broadband infrastructure investment as a primer for inclusive growth in South Africa
- Creator
- Dhlamini, Tapiwa James
- Subject
- Broadband
- Subject
- Economic growth -- South Africa
- Date Issued
- 2022-12
- Date
- 2022-12
- Type
- Master's theses
- Type
- Thesis
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10948/59566
- Identifier
- vital:62172
- Description
- This study investigated the impact of investment in the telecommunication and broadband sectors on growth, employment creation, and poverty alleviation. It employs micro-simulation techniques and an economy-wide Leontief-based social accounting matrix multiplier model to assess empirically the influence that fiscal injection into these sectors has in achieving South Africa’s macroeconomic objectives. The study found positive but declining trends in output multipliers in the telecommunication sector over the post-recession period (2009-18), signifying the enervation of the intersectoral multiplier effect over the post-recession period. Fiscal injection into the telecommunication and broadband sectors led to poverty reduction and to job creation in South Africa. However, the overall findings of this study highlight gender biases, spatial imbalances between urban and non-urban, an age gulf between young people and adults and further imbalances between formal and informal employment. The study commends that the government follow a priorities-weighted state spending policy which concurrently targets projects generating high GVA and employment multipliers and with high capacity to address the disparity caused by the legacy of Apartheid.
- Description
- Thesis (MEcon) -- Faculty of Business and Economic Science, School of Applied Accounting, 2022
- Format
- computer
- Format
- online resource
- Format
- Format
- 1 online resource (xii, 142 pages)
- Publisher
- Nelson Mandela University
- Publisher
- Faculty of Business and Economic Science
- Language
- English
- Rights
- Nelson Mandela University
- Rights
- All Rights Reserved
- Rights
- Open Access
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