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Monetary Integration in SADC: Assessment of Policy Coordination and Real Effective Exchange Rate Stability

Mulatu F. Zerihun, Marthinus C. Breitenbach and Francis Kemegue
This paper evaluates the strength of policy coordination in Southern African Development Community (SADC) as well as real effective exchange rate stability as indicative of sensible monetary integration. The underlying hypothesis goes with the assertion that countries meeting OCA conditions face...
Nov 2014
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The Relative (in)Efficiency of South African Municipalities in Providing Public Health Care

Josue Mbonigaba and Saidou Baba Oumar
Previous studies in South Africa have not dis-aggregated efficiency analysis across municipalities which are health system components of the broader national health system. The purpose of this paper is therefore to assess whether the relative efficiency of South African municipalities in primary...
Oct 2014
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The Economic Evaluation of Dryland Ecosystem Services in the South African Kgalagadi by the Local Communities

Johane Dikgang and Edwin Muchapondwa
This study seeks to value ecosystem services in the Kgalagadi area by applying the Choice Experiment technique. The values placed on dryland ecosystem services by indigenous communities are estimated using a Conditional Logit model, Random Parameter Logit model and a Random Parameter Logit model...
Oct 2013
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Health Care Facility Choice and User Fee Abolition: Regression Discontinuity in a Multinomial Choice Setting

Steven F. Koch and Jeffrey S. Racine
We apply parametric and nonparametric regression discontinuity methodology within a multinomial choice setting to examine the impact of public health care user fee abolition on health facility choice using data from South Africa. The nonparametric model is found to outperform the parametric model...
Sep 2013
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Monetary Policy and Balance Sheets

Deniz Igan, Alain Kabundi, Francisco Nadal De Simone, Natalia Tamirisa
This paper evaluates the strength of the balance sheet channel in the U.S. monetary policy transmission mechanism over the past three decades. Using a Factor-Augmented Vector Autoregression model on an expanded data set, including sectoral balance sheet variables, we show that the balance sheets of...
Aug 2013
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The Strategic Location of Regional Headquarters for Multinationals in Africa

John M. Luiz and Busi Radebe
The study investigates the criteria used by multinational companies to identify the locations of their African regional headquarters (RHQs) and the importance that multinational companies assign to the respective regional offices. We find that multinationals do assign value to their RHQs but are...
Mar 2012
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Globalisation and Conflict: Evidence from sub-Saharan Africa

Carolyn Chisadza and Manoel Bittencourt
Stephen Pinker (2011) advances that various forms of violence such as homicide, rape, torture and conict have decreased over time because of the following historical shifts in soci ety: pacication process, civilising process, humanitarian and rights revolutions, and extended periods of peace. We...
Sep 2016
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Counting the cost of drought induced productivity losses in an agro-based economy: The case of Uganda

Nicholas Kilimani, Jan van Heerden, Heinrich Bohlmann, Louise Roos
Climate variability can affect economies directly through its impact on agricultural output, and indirectly, through its effect on the activities of down-stream industries and household welfare. This paper uses a Computable General Equilibrium model with a disaggregated agricultural sector to...
Jun 2016
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Effects of Wildlife Resources on Community Welfare: Income, Poverty and Inequality

Herbert Ntuli and Edwin Muchapndwa
This paper demonstrates the importance of wildlife in the portfolio of environmental income in the livelihoods of poor rural communities living adjacent to a national park. The results show that wealthier household

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