F43 | Economic Research Southern Africa

JEL code: F43

Economic Growth of Open Economies

Structural Constraints on the Economcy, Growth and Political Economy Webinar

Monday 14 February 2022, Pascual Restrepo (Boston University), R...

Pascual Restrpo

Webinar

Human capital and the timing of the first birth

This paper constructs and partially characterizes the solution of a...

Jesse Naidoo

Working Paper

Understanding South Africa’s trade policy and performance

Policy Paper 26 South Africa’s exports have lagged behind the rest ...

Matthew Stern, Yash Ramkolowan

Policy Paper

Can unconditional cash transfers improve adolescent and young adult education outcomes?

The South African child support grant leads to increased enrolment ...

Neryvia Pillay Bell

Policy Brief

Financial Statecraft: Government Choice of Debt Instruments

We explore the diversity of means by which governments borrow ̵...

Layna Mosely, Eric Arias, B. Peter Rosendorff

Working Paper

CANCELLED: 'Structural Constraints on the Economy, Growth and Political Economy'

***Keynote Speaker*** Kenneth Scheve (Stanford) The second Economi...

Submit paper: 21 February 2020

Kenneth Scheve

Workshop

Annual Economic Research Southern Africa Workshop on ‘Structural Constraints on the Eco...

Keynote Speakers: Axel Dreher from Heidelberg University James Rob...

James Robinson, Axel Dreher

Workshop

Institutions and Other Determinants of Total Factor Productivity in Sub-Saharan Africa

The primacy of factors of production, such as labour and capital, o...

Olusegun A. Akanbi, David Fadiran

Working Paper

Shaping macroeconomic outcomes

Policy Paper 23 By early 2016, financial market participants had be...

Christopher Loewald

Policy Paper

Output Decomposition in the Presence of Input Quality Effects: A Stochastic Frontier Ap...

How do physical capital accumulation and Total Factor Productivity ...

Yasmina R. Limam, Stephen M. Miller, Giampaolo Garzarelli

Policy Brief

Recent Growth Performance in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA): What should Policy Makers in the...

The recent decades have witnessed a series of global turbulence wit...

Beatrice D. Simo-Kengne

Policy Brief

Politics, Finance and Growth

The University of Pretoria, in conjunction with the South African R...

‪Svetlana Andrianova‬, Robert Lensink, Peter Rousseau, Panicos Demetriades, David Fielding

Workshop

Real convergence using TAR panel unit root tests: an application to Southern African De...

The recent European Union crisis has sparked renewed interest in th...

Christian K. Tipoy

Working Paper

The Impact of Political Competition on Economic Growth: Evidence from Municipalities in...

This paper examines the impact of political competition on economic...

Nonso Obikili

Policy Brief

Financial Liberalisation and Economic Growth in the SADC

Attaining high levels of economic growth and development has been o...

Pierre Le Roux, Clement Moyo

Policy Brief

Exchange Rate Policy and Export Performance in Efficiency-Driven Economies

Increased globalisation, coupled with rising domestic competition, ...

Nicola K. Rowbotham, Douglas Mbululu, Adrian Saville

Working Paper

Exploring Unbalanced Growth in South Africa: Understanding the Sectoral Structure of th...

This paper explores the reasons for the unbalanced growth structure...

Johannes W. Fedderke

Working Paper

The Fundamental Determinants of Competitiveness in African Countries

This study investigates the drivers of competitiveness in African e...

Olumide Taiwo, Julius A. Agbor

Working Paper

Debt Relief under the HIPC Initiative: Why Some Countries Complete the Programme Faster...

The Highly Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) initiative has been one o...

William Akoto

Working Paper

Policy change and economic growth: A case study of South Africa

Policy Paper 14 South Africa’s growth experience provides an exampl...

David Faulkner, Christopher Loewald

Policy Paper

The Exchange Rate, Dutch Disease and Manufacturing in South Africa: What do the Data Say?

The Dutch disease argument suggests that in commodity exporting cou...

Duncan Hodge

Working Paper

Currency Substitution and Financial Repression

In this paper, we use a general equilibrium overlapping generations...

Rangan Gupta

Working 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

The contribution of growth in total factor productivity to growth in South Africa: 1970-97

Policy Paper (Interest) 16 This paper is concerned with revealing t...

Johannes W. Fedderke

Policy Paper

A case of polarization paralysis: the debate surrounding a growth strategy for South Af...

Policy Paper (Interest) 01 This paper addresses two questions. The ...

Johannes W. Fedderke

Policy Paper

The politics of state, society and economy

Policy Paper (Interest) 06 The article takes issue with the way in ...

Policy 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