JEL code: O18

Economic Development: Urban, Rural, Regional, and Transportation Analysis; Housing; Infrastructure

Request for Proposals: The role of cities as drivers of growth and employment
Background Urbanization in South Africa is expected to reach 80% by...
Call for Work
South Africa’s future will be decided in our cities
Discussion Document 14 South Africa’s cities face multiple, overlap...
Dieter von Fintel, Justin Visagie, Ivan Turok, Takwanisa Machemedze, Claus Rabe, Sebastian Galiani, Edward Glaeser
Discussion Document
Cities, productivity and Jobs in SA: Problems and potential
Discussion Document 12 Cities contribute to national prosperity bec...
Ivan Turok, Justin Visagie
Discussion Document
Place-based economic policies: international lessons for South Africa
Discussion Document 11 Place-based policies are designed to support...
Harris Selod, Claus Rabe
Discussion Document
Exploring evidence of spatial economic agglomeration in Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municip...
Since Marshall’s (1890) work on industrial districts in 19^{t...
Koech Cheruiyot
Working Paper
Inequality in South Africa: what does a composite index of wellbeing reveal?
Policymakers need better information regarding wellbeing inequality...
Talita Dalton-Greyling, Stephanié Rossouw
Working Paper
Quality of life: validation of an instrument and analysis of relationships between dime...
Background The conventional approach to measuring quality of life w...
Talita Dalton-Greyling
Policy Brief
Quality of life: Validation of an instrument and analysis of relationships between domains
Quality of life (QoL) is now widely recognised as a multidimensiona...
Talita Dalton-Greyling, Fiona Tregenna
Working Paper
Regional disparities in income-independent quality of life in South Africa: convergence...
The purpose of this study is to add to the empirical literature reg...
Trust R. Mpofu, Stephanié Rossouw, Talita Dalton-Greyling
Working Paper
Impact of Crime on Firm Entry: Evidence from South Africa
In this paper, we analyse the relationship between crime and the en...
Lawrence Edwards, Godfrey Mahofa, Asha Sundaram
Working Paper
Non-Economic Quality of Life and Population Density in South Africa
The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship betwe...
Working Paper
Non-Economic Quality of Life and Population Density in South Africa
The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship betwee...
Talita Dalton-Greyling, Stephanié Rossouw
Working Paper
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
Construction and analysis of a composite quality of life index for a region of South Af...
This study employs a novel approach to measure and analyse quality ...
Talita Dalton-Greyling, Fiona Tregenna
Working Paper
Where you live matters: Urbanisation and labour markets outcomes
Policy Paper 17 Given apartheid’s legacy of irrational spatial plan...
Roy Havemann, Marna Kearney
Policy Paper