O12 | Economic Research Southern Africa

JEL code: O12

Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development

Differential corporate taxation and inter-asset investment distortions in South Africa

South Africa has since the 1990’s actively reformed its corpo...

Mashekwa Maboshe, Matthew Stern, Yash Ramkolowan

Working Paper

Corporate taxation and firm-level investment in South Africa

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

Mashekwa Maboshe

Working Paper

‘Learning to export’ and ‘learning to innovate’: Revisiting the relationship between in...

This paper examines the relationship between innovation and export ...

Fiona Tregenna, Elvis K. Avenyo, Kwanele Ngwadleka

Working Paper

Reigniting economic growth: Lessons from three centuries of data

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

Edward Kerby, Roy Havemann

Working Paper

Taxpayer responsiveness to taxation: Evidence from bunching at kink points of the South...

I apply the bunching methodology to South African administrative ta...

Neryvia Pillay Bell

Working Paper

Part 4: Towards a fiscal policy that supports economic recovery while achieving sustain...

Drawing on the discussions in the previous 3 sessions, session 4 wi...

Matthew Simmonds, Ricardo Hausmann, Laurence Harris, Johannes W. Fedderke, Federico Sturzenegger, Abebe Selassie

Dialogue

Part 3: The role of fiscal policy in the post-Corona economic recovery

South Africa has a comparably large government sector, and the choi...

Christopher Loewald, Matthew Simmonds, Xavier Debrun, Mamokete Lijane, Gilad Isaacs, Federico Sturzenegger, Andrew Donaldson

Dialogue

Part 2: Financing the budget in the post-Corona world

Matthew delves into what financing the budget deficit in the post-C...

Brian Kantor, Matthew Simmonds, Xavier Debrun, Tshepiso Moahloli, Owen Willcox, Mamokete Lijane, Lucio Castro, Ian Stuart

Dialogue

Part 1: Understanding the concept of "fiscal sustainability" in the post-Corona world

Debt sustainability is equivalent to government solvency and from a...

Tshepiso Moahloli, Owen Willcox, Ian Stuart, Mamokete Lijane, Brian Kantor, Xavier Debrun, Lucio Castro

Dialogue

Does the Pursuit of Outreach Consistently Stifle the Financial Performance of Microfina...

We study the relationship between outreach and the financial perfor...

Sydney Chikalipah

Working Paper

Skill Shortages as a Barrier to Women’s Start Ups: A Model with Evidence from Eswatini

The shortages of entrepreneurial skills, both perceived and actual,...

Zuzana Brixiová, Thierry Kangoye

Policy Brief

Gender and Birth Order Effects on Intra-Household Schooling Choices and Educational Att...

Many schooling decisions take place within the family. For instance...

Fredrick M. Wamalwa, Justine Burns

Policy Brief

The Impact of Basic and Social Infrastructure Investment on Economic Growth and Social ...

Basic and social infrastructure investment can assist in addressing...

Derick Blaauw, Talita Dalton-Greyling, Henk Gnade

Policy Brief

Birth Order Effects on Educational Attainment and Child Labour: Evidence from Lesotho

This paper examines the e ffect of birth order on educational attai...

Ramaele Moshoeshoe

Working Paper

The impact of health on the employment and earnings of young South Africans

This paper estimates the impact of health on employment and earning...

Chijioke O. Nwosu

Working Paper

Sustainable growth in South Africa

Policy Paper 20 This paper considers a range of evidence surroundin...

Johannes W. Fedderke

Policy Paper

Infrastructure development and economic growth in South Africa: A review of the accumul...

Policy Paper 12 This paper provides a broad overview of the relatio...

Johannes W. Fedderke, Rob Garlick

Policy Paper

Local Municipalities and progress with the delivery of basic services in South Africa

In 1994, South Africa adopted the Reconstruction and Development Pr...

Jacky van der Merwe, Hannelie Otto, Waldo F. Krugell

Working Paper

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

Working Paper

The state of Public-Private-Partnerships - the State and Public-Private-Partnerships

Policy Paper (Interest) 17 This paper outlines the debates concerni...

Harry Zarenda

Policy Paper