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Therapy for Capital Shock
Author(s) -
Kantor Brian
Publication year - 1986
Publication title -
economic affairs
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.24
H-Index - 18
eISSN - 1468-0270
pISSN - 0265-0665
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-0270.1986.tb01803.x
Subject(s) - sanctions , capital (architecture) , shock (circulatory) , government (linguistics) , offset (computer science) , liberalization , economics , political science , political economy , development economics , law , history , medicine , computer science , philosophy , ancient history , linguistics , programming language
The threat and imposition of sanctions has driven capital, including human capital in the shape of valued skills, out of South Africa. Professor Brian Kantor, of the University of Cape Town, assesses measures theSouth African Government has taken, and may take in the future, to cope with the disturbances sanctions willimpose. Internal liberalisation, he argues, could offset any net loss.