O18 | Economic Research Southern Africa

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 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