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Social and Economic Infrastructure Impacts on
Economic Growth in South Africa
Infrastructure and Growth Conference29-31st May 2006
C. Kularatne
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Outline
Introduction
Economic & Social Infrastructure : A Historical Perspective
Theoretical Background
Empirical Literature
Econometric Methodology
Association between Infrastructure Measures, Output and Private Investment
Results
Non-linear Results
Policy Conclusions
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Introduction Examine relationship between infrastructure (economic and social)
and growth in SA
WHY?
•DTI: Targeting of infrastructure expenditure is crucial –one of key constraints to growth given the fact that the relative logistics cost of South Africa (15% of GDP) versus those of its trading partners (8,5% of GDP).
•No of containers per gross crane hr: Singapore = 25, Nagoya = 32, Hamburg = 24
AsgiSA document outlines 6 salient topics that need immediate address - one is investment in infrastructure.
•Cabinet approval for Eskom & Transnet - R121-billion worth of investment over the next five years.
•Approximately R107-billion needed 2005-2009 for SA energy
•AsgiSA: Lower costs & improve SA competitiveness – Planned infrastructure investment will contribute to this
Planned rate of growth of the capital budget of government at between 15% and 20% per year
•SA: Durban & Cape Town = 16, Port Elizabeth = 12
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A Description of Data
• Some Notes on SARB Infrastructure Data
• SARB gets capital stock data from StatsSA categorized into: Construction, machinery, residential, non-residential,etc.
• Non-residential investment => Social infrastructure
• Construction and machinery => Economic infrastructure (by public corporations & general govt)
• Depreciation is calculated based on these categories provided by StatsSA using a linear rate of depn - Explains negative infrastructure investment
Description Source
Log of Gross Value-Added per capita at 2000 prices SARBLog of Private Investment Rate at 2000 prices SARBLog Social Infrastructure Investment Rate at 2000 prices SARBLog skills ratio QuantecInterest rate (long-term) differential between US and SA SARBLog Economic Infrastructure Investment Rate at 2000 prices SARBLog of Price of Capital SARBLog of the Savings Rate at 2000 prices SARBLog Corporate Tax Rate National TreasurySchooling Infrastructure measures DoERail Infrastructure StatsSA, SpoornetRaod Infrastructure StatsSA, CSIR, Roads Agency
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Economic & Social Infrastructure in SA
Economic & Social Infrastructure
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Historical View of Economic Infrastructure
Average Investment in Economic Infrastructure per capita (R)
Average Investment in Economic Infrastructure-to-GVA (%)
1960s 618 3.60
1970s 976 4.91
1980s 445 2.20
1990s 59 0.33
1994-2004 92 0.49 2000-2004 89 0.45
Demonstrate a long-term deterioration: from mid-1970s for economic and social investment capital stock
Investment in economic infrastructure per capita fell from R1 304 in 1976 to R52 in 2002.
Economic infrastructure investment rate fell from 5 % to 0.27%
Recovery of infrastructural investment in the 1990s & subsequent slump• Expansion programs by Telkom & Eskom to areas which were under-serviced,
(SARB annual economic reports, 1996 -2000).
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Historical View of Economic Infrastructure
Decline in infrastructural investment mid-1970s & 2002 - Part of overall decline in GFCF SA's gross savings (% of GDP) fell during 1980s & 1990s.
After 1980 govt consumption expenditure increased at expense of government investment (Merrifield, 2000: 98) - reflecting the government’s desperate attempts to prop up a political system that was economically unsustainable.
Growing consumption expenditure possible through investment cutbacks & fiscal deficit - budget deficit as prop of GDP rose from 2.9% in 1980–1986 to 4.9% in 1987–1994
In post-apartheid period, consumption & investment constrained to reduce deficit. Averaged 4.5% in 1995–1998 & 1.8% in 1999–2003. See Mariotti (2002).
Phases of Expansion
1. Railways from 1875–1930 period,
2. Inter-city roads- reached plateau 1940, after which focus was on paving national & provincial roads.
3. Port capacity was constrained to 1970s.
4. Telephones and electricity in 1980s
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An Index of Infrastructure Monetary vs Physical measures
Physical measures: quantity of pertinent structures and facilities and covering a broader definition of this stock
• Why?
1. Government may not always be subject to competitive markets, & public infrastructure endowments are not allocated through a price mechanism
2. Expansion of infrastructure takes place in stages wrt type of infrastructure
3. Expansion of infrastructure expenditure may not be matched by proportionate increases in physical infrastructure
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Historical View of Economic Infrastructure
Railway lines (km), Rail locomotives (number), Rail goods stock (number),Rail carrying capacity (tonnes), Rail freight (tonnes), Total roads (km), Ports: cargo handled (harbour tons), South African Airways passengers (number), Total telephone lines (mobile & fixed), & Electricity generated (gigawatt hrs)
Index of Economic Infrastructure & per capita GVA
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Gross Value-Added per capita
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Historical View of Economic Infrastructure
GVA per capita & Index of Infrastructure
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GVA per capita
Index of capacity utilization of railroad and road infrastructure - incorporates different measures of rail infrastructure
Rail infrastructure measures include railway lines, locomotives and coaching stock per ton of freight & road infrastructure (both paved and unpaved) per vehicle.
Indicates a declining trend.
Imply that infrastructure capacity is declining or that infrastructure is being more efficiently used.
More km of road does not necessarily imply improvements in infrastructure - vehicular transportation may be more efficiently utilized.
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Historical View of Social Infrastructure
Average Investment in Social Infrastructure per capita (R)
Average Investment in Social Infrastructure-to-GVA (%)
1960s 162 0.95
1970s 234 1.18
1980s 111 0.55
1990s 2 0.01
1994-2004 5 0.02 2000-2004 11 0.05
Social infrastructure investment per capita also decline from R263 in 1976 to R2 in 2002.
Social infrastructure investment rate in 2004 is 0.2%.
Renewed effort from year 2000 to increase social infrastructure investment expenditure - rising to R39 per capita in 2004.
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Social Infrastructure: Schools
Declining trend
Trend in infrastructure expenditure on schools portrays a gloomy picture since 1997
Most of education budget spent on recurrent expenditure
Have we caught-up with the backlog of physical infrastructure in schooling system?
Classrooms and New Schools
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Theoretical BackgroundInvestment in economic infrastructure increase growth potential,
raising productive capacity via TFP directly or indirectly by increasing the return to private capital
Direct effect: as a factor of production
Indirect effect: productive infrastructure and private capital are "complements" in production, i.e, partial derivative of marginal product of private capital services with respect to the flow of infrastructure capital services is positive.
Effect of Social infrastructure???
Barro (1990) theoretical model to underpin the interaction of government expenditure on growth
Nuance to Barro (1990) model is inclusion of public investment in social infrastructure and economic infrastructure.
Infrastructure (economic and social) used in production of final output - financed by a tax on output.
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Theoretical Background
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Theoretical Backgroundα =0.2, A=1, gS = 20-100, k = 20-100
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Literature Review• Academic debate on public infrastructure was stimulated by Aschauer (1988.1989)
• Various papers using a variety of methodologies in analysing the impact of infrastructure
STUDY AGREGATION LEVEL DATA CONCLUSIONS
Aschauer (1989) US Time series, 1949-85 Strong and positive relationship between productivity and public investment
Shioji (2001) US & Japanese regions Panel data, 1958-78 Infrastructure capital has a significant positive effect on long-run output in both countries
Shah (1992) Mexico Time series, 1970-87 Public infrastructure has positive multiplier effect on output
Rioja (1998) 7 Latin American countries Time series Infrastructure investment has sizeable positive effects on GDP and private investment
Ramirez (1998) Chile Time series, 1960-93 Public investment has a positive and highly significant effect on growth
Kneller, Bleaney & Gemmell (1998)
22 OECD countries Panel data, 1970-95 An increase in productive expenditure significantly enhances growth
Ram (1996) 53 developing countries Panel Data, 1973-80, 1980-85, 1985-90
Public investment appears more productive than private investment
Ford & Poyet (1991) US Time series, 1957-89 Public investment has a significant and positive effect on private output
Toen-Goet & Jongeling (1994)
US Time series Public investment on infrastructure has a significant and positive influence on output
Nourzad (2000) 12 developing/ developed countries
Panel Data, 1976-1989 Public capital exerts a positive and statistically significant effect on labour productivity
Devarajan et al. (1996) 43 developing countries Time series, 1970-90 Total government expenditure has a positive but statistically insignificant effect on growth
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Literature Review• Perkins (2003) finds significant long-run relationships between infrastructure and GDP in South Africa – SA’s GDP growth tends to drive growth in individual measures of infrastructure-related goods and services.
•Fedderke et al. (2005) find investment in infrastructure (using various measures of physical infrastructure) does appear to lead economic growth in SA both directly and indirectly (raising the marginal productivity of capital); weak evidence of feedback from output to infrastructure; while the finding of an infrastructure growth impact is robust.
•Bogeti´c et al. (2005) using panel data for the SA manufacturing sector find empirical links between infrastructure and productivity. Specifically, infrastructure affects output directly, while it exerts more limited impact on factor productivity.
Summary
1.Public capital probably enhances economic growth,
2.Direction of association???
3.We are less certain about the magnitude of the effect and this is a disappointing outcome, given the enormous amount of research in this field.
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Econometric Methodology 2. PSS F-Test
• Explore the directions of association between the variables
• Where the estimated test statistic exceeds the upper bound value, we infer presence of a long-run equilibrium relationship and vice versa.
• Test is indeterminate:
1. Where test statistic lies between the upper & lower bound values (in which case it is not clear whether a long-run relationship between the variables is present),
2. Where more than one variable is confirmed as outcome variable of long-run equilibrium relationship (in which case the long-run relationships between variables not unique).
• In current application - relationship tested is between GDP and/or private investment & individual measures of economic infrastructure, and/or private investment & social infrastructure
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Econometric Methodology 3. Johansen Vector Error Correction Methodology
• Estimate a structural model for the linkages between economic and social infrastructure and other macroeconomic variables the paper employs Johansen estimation technique
• Estimating a Vector Error-Correction Mechanism (VECM)
4. Threshold autoregressive estimation - Potter (1995), Pesaran and Potter (1996)
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Discussion of Results
• Existence of feedback effects between physical infrastructure and per capita output;
• Existence of feedback effects between physical infrastructure and per capita private investment expenditure;
• Physical infrastructure (possibly) affects per capita output indirectly via per capita private investment expenditure; and
• Social capital affects per capita output, per capita private investment expenditure and physical economic infrastructure directly.
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• We discover that infrastructure manifests (in one dimension) the possible absence of per capita output and per capita private investment affecting per capita investment expenditure.
• Does output affect infrastructure development?
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EstimationGross Value-Added per capita
Private Investment Rate
Economic Infrastructure Investment Rate
Per capita GVA - 7.44 10.7Private Investment Rate
0.082 - 0.55
Economic Infrastructure Investment Rate
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Social Infrastructure Investment Rate
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Skills Ratio 0.31 - -Instability -0.08 - -Price of Capital - -0.14 -0.95Savings Rate - 0.034 -2.51Corporate Tax rate - -1.57 -1.82ecm -0.19 -1.38 -0.67
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Threshold effects
•Social infrastructure-to-GVA – No critical threshold reached at 1.3%
•Economic infrastructure-to-GVA- No critical threshold reached at 6%
Social Infrastructure-to-GVA Level 1% 1.3% On per capita GVA 0.05 0.05 Threshold 0.01 0.04 Sum 0.06 0.09
Economic Infrastructure-to-GVA Level 5% 6% On Private Investment rate 0.26 0.23 Threshold -0.14 -0.15 Sum 0.07 0.08
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Conclusion and Policy Analysis
•Neither Economic nor Social infrastructure expenditure thresholds could be reached as a percentage of GVA when taking into account the highest it has been since 1960 (as a percentage of GVA)
•Both economic and social infrastructure expenditure still on a linear path
•Social infrastructure has a positive direct effect on GVA
•Appears that economic infrastructure investment does not lead output but rather lags GDP growth from 1965 onwards
•Economic infrastructure investment appears to respond to economic growth rather than driving economic growth since 1960
•Investments undertaken were a response to capacity constraints being reached
•Feed back effects of economic infrastructure wrt to private investment
•Other investments like petrol refineries which occurred in 1960s may have had a negligible effect on GDP growth – inefficient investments
• Economic Infrastructure still on linear path – further investigation
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Quality of Schooling & Infrastructure
Composite Schools Index vs Degrees in Math & Science
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Proportion of Students with degrees in Natural Sciences
New Schools, Total of classrooms, Total of workshops, Total of toilets, Administrative areas: offices and storerooms, Media centres, Halls, Number of schools provided with fences, Number of schools provided with water, & Number of schools provided with electricity
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SavingsEconomic Infrastructure Investment rate vs Savings rate
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