O10 | Economic Research Southern Africa

JEL code: O10

Economic Development: General

Big data forecasting of South African inflation

We investigate whether the use of machine learning techniques and b...

Rulof P. Burger, Neil Rankin, Kevin Kotze, Byron Botha

Working Paper

Government religious preference and intrastate conflict

Understanding the causes and consequences of conflicts continues to...

Matthew W. Clance, Eduard van der Merwe, Carolyn Chisadza

Working Paper

The persistence of apartheid regional wage disparities in South Africa

Despite the ending of apartheid, regional wage disparities remain p...

Lawrence Edwards, Gibson Mudiriza

Working Paper

Aid Volatility and Structural Economic Transformation in sub-Saharan Africa

To what extent does Official Development Assistance (ODA) volatilit...

Thomas Yeboah, Muazu Ibrahim, Emmanuel Kumi

Policy Brief

Aid Volatility and Structural Economic Transformation in sub-Saharan Africa: Does Finan...

This paper departs from the traditional aid–economic growth studies...

Thomas Yeboah, Muazu Ibrahim, Emmanuel Kumi

Working Paper

Globalisation and Conflict: Evidence from sub-Saharan Africa

Stephen Pinker (2011) advances that various forms of violence such ...

Carolyn Chisadza, Manoel Bittencourt

Working Paper

The Impact of Fractionalization on Cultural Distance Measures

We examine the impact of ethno-linguistic fractionalization (ELF) o...

John M. Luiz

Working Paper

Is Democracy Eluding Sub-Saharan Africa?

This paper analyses the modernisation hypothesis in the sub-Saharan...

Manoel Bittencourt, Carolyn Chisadza

Working Paper

Does Education Promote Stable Property Rights?

This paper sets out to establish an empirical link between educatio...

Biniam E. Bedasso

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

Yet Another Look at the Modernisation Hypothesis: Evidence from South America

We investigate in this paper whether the exogenous version of the m...

Manoel Bittencourt

Working Paper

Heights and development in a Cash-Crop Colony: Living standards in Ghana, 1870-1980

While Ghana is a classic case of economic growth in an agricultural...

Jörg Baten, Gareth Austin, Alexander Moradi

Working Paper

Does Famine Matter For Aggregate Adolescent Human Capital Acquisition In Sub-Saharan Af...

To the extent that in utero and childhood malnutrition negatively a...

Julius A. Agbor, Gregory N. Price

Working Paper

Heterogeneity Happens: How Rights Matter in Economic Development

The paper examines how much governance matters for long run economi...

Kamil Akramov, Robert E. Klitgaard, Johannes W. Fedderke

Working Paper

An examination of the Impact of Economic Policy on long-run Economic Growth: An applica...

This paper examines the impact of two indicators of government poli...

Martine Mariotti

Working Paper

An examination of the impact of financial deepening on long-run economic growth: An app...

This paper examines the impact of financial deepening on long run e...

Chandana Kularatne

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