H31 | Economic Research Southern Africa

JEL code: H31

Fiscal Policies and Behavior of Economic Agents: Household

Possible Welfare Benefits of a Basic Income Support: Evidence from a benefit incidence ...

Working Paper 886 The study investigates the potential welfare effe...

Nicky Nicholls, Kehinde O. Omotoso, Eleni Yitbarek, Ramos Mabugu, Margaret Chitiga-Mabugu, Carolyn Chisadza

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Reigniting economic growth: Lessons from three centuries of data

We estimate that since 1701, South Africa has experienced 163 years...

Edward Kerby, Roy Havemann

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A Sequence to Reverse Poverty: Institutions, State Capacity and Human Empowerment

This paper explores the fundamental or deep causes of poverty persi...

Sansia Blackmore, Reneé van Eyden

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A fiscus for better economic and social development in South Africa

After showing that the bulk of government expenditure is unproducti...

Francois J. Stofberg, Jan H. van Heerden, Heinrich R. Bohlmann

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The Effect of Tobacco and Alcohol Control Policies on Household Spending Patterns in Ke...

This paper examines the effect of tobacco and alcohol control polic...

Abel O. Nyagwachi, Grieve Chelwa, Corné van Walbeek

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The Elasticity of Taxable Income: The case of South Africa

A central tax policy parameter that has received much attention int...

Johannes H. Kemp

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Measuring the Impact of Marginal Tax Rate Reform on the Revenue Base of South Africa Us...

This paper is primarily concerned with the revenue and tax efficien...

Niek J. Schoeman, Yolandé van Heerden

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Analysing the Effects of Fiscal Policy Shocks in the South African Economy

This paper is the first one to analyse the effect of aggregate gove...

Ruthira Naraidoo, Guangling Liu, Charl Jooste

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Labor supply responses to large social transfers: Longitudinal evidence from South Africa

The South African old-age social pension has been much studied by b...

Cally Ardington, Anne Case, Victoria Hosegood

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