N97 | Economic Research Southern Africa

JEL code: N97

Regional and Urban History: Africa; Oceania

The Contribution of Fiscal Decentralization to Regional Inequality: Empirical Results f...

Over the past two decades, many African countries have carried out ...

Ramos Mabugu, Hammed Amusa

Policy Brief

What church records can tell us about economic development

Because colonial sources often lack adequate information about the ...

ERSA

Workshop

The spatial persistence of population and wealth during apartheid: comparing the 1911 a...

This article examines the spatial distribution of people and wealth...

Waldo F. Krugell

Working Paper

The African Middle Class in South Africa 1910-1994

Alan Cobley (1990: 3) has argued that no sustained interest was tak...

Roger Southall

Working Paper

The Impact of the Slave Trade on Literacy in Africa: Evidence from the Colonial Era

Recent studies have highlighted the importance of Africa’s hi...

Nonso Obikili

Working Paper

Pearls worth Rds4000 or less: Reinterpreting eighteenth century sumptuary laws at the Cape

Governor Ryk Tulbagh promulgated sumptuary laws at the Cape in 1755...

Stan Du Plessis

Working Paper

“Global since Gold” The Globalisation of Conglomerates: Explaining the Experience from ...

The internationalisation of enterprises is one of the essential way...

Grietjie Verhoef

Working Paper