Publications & Documents

Education at a Glance 2015: South Africa

The 2015 edition introduces more detailed analysis of participation in early childhood and tertiary levels of education. The report also examines first generation tertiary-educated adults’ educational and social mobility, labour market outcomes for recent graduates, and participation in employer-sponsored formal and/or non-formal education.

South Africa Policy Brief: Territorial Development for More Inclusive Growth

Continued spatial segregation undermines labour-market performance and reinforces disparities in access to essential services and economic opportunity. As South Africa continues to urbanise, it needs policies that support a better location of affordable housing and improved transport provision.

South Africa Policy Brief: Reducing Bribery Risks in Cross-border Trade and Investment Deals

South Africa has a solid legislative framework for combating the bribery of foreign public officials in international business transactions, yet it needs to better enforce the law prohibiting the bribery of foreign public officials and make sure that South African companies know how to effectively prevent such bribery in their foreign business deals.

South Africa Policy Brief: Tackling Youth Unemployment

Addressing poor labour market outcomes for youth will require measures to boost job creation, increase employability through better education and training, promote entrepreneurship, improve job quality, and strengthen social protection.

South Africa Policy Brief: State-owned Enterprise Reform

South Africa conducted a comprehensive review of its state-owned enterprise sector in 2012, initiated at the request of the Presidency. Implementation of the review’s recommendations is now of critical importance and can be supported by adopting international best practices.

South Africa Policy Brief: Promoting International Investment for Stronger Growth

There is scope to further improve South Africa’s investment climate. Investors cite concerns such as frequent policy changes, uncertainty of regulation, and corruption as limiting factors. In addition, recent electricity shortages are likely to be weighing on private investment.

South Africa Policy Brief: Improving the Quality and Relevance of Skills

South Africa has made impressive progress in improving access to education, but persistent inequities and poor education quality lead to low education outcomes.

Job Creation and Local Economic Development in South Africa

This publication highlights new evidence on policies to support job creation, bringing together the latest research on labour market, entrepreneurship and local economic development policy to help governments support job creation in the recovery. It also includes a set of country pages featuring, among other things, new data on skills supply and demand at the level of smaller OECD regions (TL3).

A Skills Beyond School Review of South Africa

Vocational education and training (VET) programmes are facing rapid change and intensifying challenges. How can employers and unions be engaged? How can workbased learning be used? This country report on South Africa looks at these and other questions.

A Skills beyond School Review of South Africa