CONTENTS - GDP growth - EDITORIAL TEAM

The Real Economy Bulletin is a TIPS review of quarterly trends, developments and data in the CONTENTS real economy, together with a comprehensive GDP growth analysis of the main manufacturing industries and Employment key data in Excel format.* International trade GDP growth Investment and profitability Foreign direct investment projects The GDP grew 0.6% in the second quarter of 2023, a slight im. [...] The bulk of new jobs growth occurred in the services and retail, however (Graph 8), quarter-on-quarter manufacturing declined, but the data are not seasonally adjusted and the sector has generally seen net job losses from the first to the second quarter of each year. [...] The QLFS data suggest that while manufacturing job creation lagged far behind the rest of the economy in the first half of the 2010s, it has since largely kept pace. [...] Most of the projects added to the Tracker in the second quarter of 2023 were announced at the South African Investment Conference (SAIC) held in April of 2023. [...] This forms part of the conditions set by The Competition Tribunal for the final approval of the acquisition, it was previously conditionally approved by the Competition Commission which referred the merger to the Tribunal.