Constructing future growth opportunities: the potential to develop an intensive civil engineering and construction works export strategy
PUBLICATION YEAR: 2007
TITLE AUTHOR(S): S.Lowitt
KEYWORDS: CIVIL ENGINEERING, EXPORTS AND IMPORTS, GROWTH MONITORING PROGRAMME
Print: HSRC Library: shelf number 5170
HANDLE: 20.500.11910/5513
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/5513
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Abstract
The paper is partially a research paper and partly a strategic contribution. It seeks to understand the economic contribution of the civil engineering and contruction works sector to the South African economy, both through domestic activity and export activity.-
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