Economic Research Southern Africa (ERSA) is a research programme which is being funded by the National Treasury of South Africa.
There is strong evidence internationally that tobacco policies have both direct and indirect effects on individual smoking behaviour.
This study investigates the determinants of exchange rate volatility in South Africa using generalised autoregressive conditional heteroscedasticity estimation techniques between 1986 and 2013.
The study is an empirical assessment of the banking sector competition in Zimbabwe under the multicurrency regime introduced following a severe economic crisis between 1999 and 2008.
This paper analyses the effects of the COMESA-EAC-SADC Tripartite Free Trade Agreement (TFTA) on the South African economy using a global Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) model.
Concerns have been expressed recently about the inability of the South African economy to provide adequate employment for the increasing number of job seekers.
The destabilising economic impact of South Africa’s dependence on imported crude oil is a key motivation behind the country’s drive to develop a biofuel industry. Much concern has been raised over the impact of biofuels production on price of food for the country's poor.
The BTech Prestigious Awards event which included the ERSA 2015 Prizewinners'function where the Best Economics Students received their awards, was held at TUT's Ga-Rankuwa Campus on 29 July 2016. View the award gallery page here.
This study examines the role of gender of the head of household on the food security of small-scale subsistence farmers in urban and rural areas of South Africa, using the exogenous switching treatment-effects regression framework.
Big Data can be consequential for the field of history.
South Africa harbours 95 percent of the world’s threatened white rhinoceros (18 000) population and 40 percent of the critically endangered black rhinoceros (1 950) population.
Most emerging market economies (EMEs) which have implemented inflation targeting (IT) have continued to experience large, frequent and sometimes persistent inflation target misses. At the same time these countries had reformed their institutional structures when implementing IT.
Using confidential U.S. customs data on trade transactions between U.S. importers and Bangladeshi exporters between 2002 and 2009, and information on the geographic location of Bangladeshi exporters, we show that the presence of neighboring exporters that previously transacted with a U.S.
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