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The ‘U-turn’: Business confi dence in a Karoo town

Southern African Business Review

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Title The ‘U-turn’: Business confi dence in a Karoo town
 
Creator van Rooyen, D
 
Subject business confi dence, Karoo, Beaufort West, Bureau for Economic Research (BER), South African Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SACCI), South African small, medium and micro enterprise (SMME) sector
 
Description Business confidence helps explain the sentiments that business owners or managers have towards current and future business conditions. This article compares several ways of measuring business confi dence. Business confi dence is mostly surveyed at the level of the nation-state rather than at the level of municipalities or towns. This article provides a methodology for business-confi dence surveys at the local level. This approach has been piloted in the town of Beaufort West in the Karoo area of South Africa. There are plans for a new uranium mine near Beaufort West, and the researchers speculate on its impact on the broader local business confi dence.
 
Publisher College of Economic and Management Sciences (UNISA)
 
Contributor —
 
Date 2012-05-14
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Peer-reviewed Article
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier https://www.ajol.info/index.php/sabr/article/view/76402
 
Source Southern African Business Review; Vol 15, No 2 (2011)
1998-8125
1561-896X
 
Language eng
 
Relation https://www.ajol.info/index.php/sabr/article/view/76402/66860
 
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