| Summary: | M.Com. (Economics and Business Science) === For years the South African economy emphasised the importance of the agricultural industry in the country. Only relatively recently it seems to have begun to acknowledge the importance of the industrial and manufacturing sectors. A part of the manufacturing sector is made up of the motor and related industries. It is the aim of this dissertation to investigate the importance of this sector by building a input-output model for this and other related industries. "The gap between elegant, but non-operational, theory and inadequately structured empirical research has always been serious in economics. Leontief's conception of input-output analysis proposed to eliminate this gap." This dissertation is firstly explores input-output analysis and the theory behind it, as developed by the Polish economist Wassily Leontief; then researches the current situation in the South African Motor Industry using facts depicted in graphs and the elaboration of these graphs. Thirdly there is a short overview of the importance of Phase VI of the local content programme, and the problems related to this programme. Finally the model itself will be built and then analysed. This dissertation does, however, only serve as an indication and does not provide final answers.
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