O17 | Economic Research Southern Africa

JEL code: O17

Formal and Informal Sectors; Shadow Economy; Institutional Arrangements

Dr Biniam Bedasso on immigration and political preferences in South Africa: how has vot...

During the past week the buzz word has been ‘voting’, given the nai...

Margaux Giannaros, Biniam E. Bedasso

Podcast

Does Infrastructure Really Explain Economic Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa

Given the well-known public infrastructure deficit in Sub-Saharan A...

Odongo Kodongo, Kalu Ojah

Policy Brief

Labour market impact of internal in-migration: A district level analysis of South Africa

Despite the lack of clarity in literature with regards to the quest...

Umakrishnan Kollamparambil

Working Paper

Path dependence and interdependence between institutions and development

Path dependence theory, within the institutions context, means that...

Mare Sarr, David Fadiran

Policy Brief

The Sectoral Employment Intensity of Growth in South Africa

Concerns have been expressed recently about the inability of the So...

Njabulo Mkhize

Working Paper

“Sometimes you don't make enough to buy food” - an analysis of South African street was...

In this paper we use income data of 873 street waste pickers in Sou...

Kotie J. M. M. Viljoen, Catherina J. Schenck, Phillip F. Blaauw

Working Paper

Sometimes you don’t make enough money to buy food: An analysis of South African street ...

One of the aims of the National Development Plan (NDP) is the eradi...

Kotie J. M. M. Viljoen, Catherina J. Schenck, Phillip F. Blaauw

Policy Brief

“I would rather have a decent job”: Barriers preventing street waste pickers from impro...

As a result of the high levels of unemployment in South Africa many...

Kotie J. M. M. Viljoen, Phillip F. Blaauw, Rinie Schenck

Working Paper

Land use in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)

This paper examines the effects of land use in the DRC through the ...

Bonga B. Lumengo, Jean L. Erero, Daniel D. Pambudi

Working Paper

Wage subsidy in the DRC: A CGE analysis

This paper analyses wage subsidies on lower-skilled formal workers ...

Jean L. Erero, Daniel D. Pambudi, Lumengo Bonga-Bonga

Working Paper

What Drives Corruption? Evidence from North African Firms

This paper empirically analyzes the main microeconomic determinants...

Clara Delavallade

Working Paper

Ethnic Solidarity and the Individual Determinants of Ethnic Identification

This paper examines the individual determinants of ethnic identific...

Thomas Bossuroy

Working Paper

The Impact of Trade Liberalization on Micro Enterprises: Do Banks Matter? Evidence from...

This paper looks at the impact of trade liberalization on output, f...

Asha Sundaram

Working Paper