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1. CITIES, TOWNS AND SETTLEMENTS
- Cities ; See also: Urban economy and growth under “ECONOMIC GROWTH FACTORS”
- Large towns
- Medium sized towns
- Small towns
2. ECONOMIC GROWTH/ANTI-GROWTH FACTORS
- Anti-business
- Anti-poor; See also: Pro-poor strategies under “ECONOMIC POLICY AND STRATGEY”
- Business and economic indexes
- Competitiveness
- Consumer led development
- Corruption
- Covid-19. See: Lockdown policy
- Credit risk ratings
- Crime against business
- Culture and development
- Emigration/Immigration; See also: Brain drain and Skills flight
- Enterprise friendly environment; See also: EOSA’s web page; as well as blog posts tagged with “Enterprise Friendly Index“
- Enterprise profitability
- Enterprise research, data and statistics
- Enterprise richness
- Entrepreneurial activity; See also: Entrepreneurial space under “ECONOMIC THEORY”
- Investment/Divestment
- Job creation and unemployment
- Municipal audits
- Municipal efficiency
- Municipal governance
- Municipal legislative compliance
- Population size
- Public service delivery
- Spending power (wealth/poverty)
- State Capture; See also: Corruption
- Town resilience
- Urban economy and growth
3. ECONOMIC POLICY AND STRATEGY
- Accelerated and Shared Growth Initiative for South Africa (ASGISA)
- Black economic empowerment (BEE)
- Business incubation
- Buying local
- Company tax
- Developmental state
- Expropriation without compensation
- Land reform
- Local economic development (LED)
- Lockdown policy
- National Gazelles Programme
- Opportunity tax
- Preferential procurement
- Pro-growth strategies
- Pro-poor strategies
4. ECONOMIC THEORY
- Complexity economics
- Demographic-entrepreneurial relationships
- Dynamic systems theory
- Enterprise dynamics
- Enterprise regularities
- Entrepreneurial space
- Market economy
- Marxist-Leninist ideology
- Orderliness
- Predictive capabilities
- Religion and economics/Ideology and economics
- White monopoly capital theory
5. ENTERPRISE SECTORS
See also: EOSA’s “19 enterprise sectors” web page explaining how enterprises manifest themselves in available entrepreneurial space in accordance to regularities.
- Agriculture
- Construction services
- Factories
- Financial services
- Mining services
- Processors
- Professional services
- Tourism & hospitality services
- Trading services
6. ENTERPRISE TYPES
- Black-owned businesses
- Cooperatives
- Home-based businesses
- Informal businesses
- Large enterprises
- Medium sized enterprises
- Small and medium enterprises (SMEs)
- Small enterprises
- Sole proprietors
- State Owned Enterprises (SOEs)
7. SOUTH AFRICAN PROVINCES
- Eastern Cape
- Free State
- Gauteng
- KwaZulu-Natal
- Limpopo
- Mpumalanga
- North West
- Northern Cape
- Western Cape
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