E22 | Economic Research Southern Africa

JEL code: E22

Capital; Investment; Capacity

Building a competitive and dynamic green industrial sector in South Africa after COVID-19

Policy Paper 28 COVID-19 gave the world a glimpse of how devastatin...

Tendai Gwatidzo, Witness Simbanegavi

Policy Paper

Addressing low labour utilisation in South Africa

Policy Paper 27 South Africa’s stubbornly low labour utilisation ra...

Christopher Loewald, Konstantin Makrelov, Andreas Wörgötter

Policy Paper

Corporate taxation and firm-level investment in South Africa

This paper investigates the responsiveness of firm-level investment...

Mashekwa Maboshe

Working Paper

Estimating South Africa's output gap and potential growth rate

The potential output of an economy is an unobservable variable whic...

Johannes W. Fedderke, Daniel K. Mengisteab

Policy Brief

Estimating South Africa’s output gap and potential growth rate

Policy Paper 21 This paper estimates the potential output of the So...

Johannes W. Fedderke, Daniel K. Mengisteab

Policy Paper

A Panel Ordered Response Model for Sovereign Credit ratings in Africa

In recent times there has been an increased focus on the myriad inv...

Marinda Pretorius, Ilse Botha

Working Paper

Social capital as an engine of growth: Multisectoral modelling and implications

We propose a multisector endogenous growth model incorporating soci...

Youyou B. Bofota, Raouf Boucekkine, Alain P. Bala

Working Paper

Role of Governance in Explaining Domestic Investment in Nigeria

This study empirically examines the pattern of domestic investment ...

Olusegun A. Akanbi

Working Paper

The role of human and social capital: Extending our understanding

Policy Paper (Interest) 11 Human capital, institutions and social c...

Barbara Piazza-Georgi

Policy Paper

Technology, human capital, growth and institutional development: Lessons from endogenou...

Policy Paper (Interest) 13 This paper provides a discursive review ...

Johannes W. Fedderke

Policy Paper