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Factors influencing people’s perceptions towards conservation of transboundary wildlife resources. The case of the Great-Limpopo Trans-frontier Conservation Area by Herbert Ntuli

The perceptions of indigenous people towards protected areas greatly determine the success of integrated conservation and development projects in most 3rd world count

Can local communities afford full control over wildlife conservation? The Case of CAMPFIRE in Zimbabwe by Herbert Ntuli

Zimbabwe’s community-based conservation model, which brings together peasant farmers in a tourism-focused approach to wildlife management, has enjoyed limited success

Motivating teachers in rural Zambia using a monetary incentive by Grieve Chelwa, Miquel Pellicer and Mashekwa Maboshe

Like many developing countries, the achievement gap between rural and urban areas in Zambia remains substantial.

Latest Publications

Access to micro – and informal loans: evaluating the impact on the quality of life of poor females in South Africa by Talita Greyling and Stephanié Rossouw

Background: Since the early 1980s, many governments have investigated the possibility of utilising access to microloans as a pathway to grow economies out of unemployment and thereby improve people's quality of life.

Market Potential, Agglomeration Effects and the Location of French Firms in Africa by Alain Pholo Bala, Michel Tenikue and Baraka Nafari

This paper informs the debate on the existence of agglomeration effects in Africa. It uses a structural estimation approach to investigate the impact of agglomeration economies and forward linkages on the localization of French affiliates in Africa.

Quality of life: Validation of an instrument and analysis of relationships between domains by Talita Greyling and Fiona Tregenna

Quality of life (QoL) is now widely recognised as a multidimensional concept. This study validates an instrument to measure multidimensional QoL, and investigates the relationships between the domains thereof.

Sanctioned Quotas vs Information Provisioning for Community Wildlife Conservation in Zimbabwe: A Framed Field Experiment Approach by Herbert Ntuli, Anne-Sophie Crépin, Caroline Schill and Edwin Muchapondwa

We investigate the behavioural responses of resource users to policy interventions like sanctioned quotas and information provisioning.

Taxpayers’ behavioural responses to Voluntary Disclosure Programmes: evidence from South Africa by Chengetai Dare, Ada Jansen and Sophia du Plessis

South Africa, like any other country, strives towards greater tax revenue mobilisation. One possible explanation to low revenue levels is non-compliance by taxpayers.

Latest Journal Publications

Regional economic effects of changes in South Africa's electricity generation mix by Bohlmann, H.R., Horridge, J.M., Inglesi-Lotz, R., Roos, E.L. & Stander, L.
Energy Policy (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0301421519300783)

This paper examines the long-run regional economic effects within South Africa of changing the electricity-generation mix away from coal. We use a regional CGE model of South Africa to conduct our analysis.

The Impact of Political Competition on Economic Growth: Evidence from Municipalities in South Africa by Nonso Obikili
South African Journal of Economics (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/saje.12208)
This paper examines the impact of political competition on economic growth.
Effect of Financial Development on Economic Growth in sub–Saharan Africa: Does Sectoral Growth Matter? by Muazu Ibrahim and Paul Alagidede
Journal of Policy Modelling (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0161893818301170)

This paper examines the overall economic growth effect when the growth in finance and real sector is disproportionate relying on panel data for 29 sub–Saharan African countries over the period 1980–2014.

Welfare analysis of bank capital requirements with endogenous default by Fernando Garcia-Barragan and Guangling Liu
Economic Modelling (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264999317315225)
This paper presents a tractable framework with endogenous default and evaluates the welfare implication of bank capital requirements. We analyze the response of social welfare to a negative technology shock under different capital requirement regimes with and without default.
Impact of macroeconomic announcements on foreign exchange volatility: Evidence from South Africa by Tseke Maserumule and Paul Alagidede
South African Journal of Economics (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/saje.12160)

This study focuses on scheduled macroeconomic news announcements and evaluates their impact on the volatility of the South African rand (ZAR) and US dollar (USD) exchange rate using high frequency data.