O40 | Economic Research Southern Africa

JEL code: O40

Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity: General

‘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

Income convergence in Southern Africa: A non-linear time-varying coefficients framework

This article investigated income per capita convergence in the Sout...

Ntokozo P. Nzimande

Working Paper

Effect of Financial Development on Economic Growth in sub-Saharan African: Does Sectora...

The role of financial sector development in economic growth has rec...

Paul Alagidede, Muazu Ibrahim

Policy Brief

Effect of Financial Development on Economic Growth in sub–Saharan Africa: Does Sectoral...

This paper examines the overall economic growth effect when the gro...

Paul Alagidede, Muazu Ibrahim

Working Paper

Does Infrastructure Really Explain Economic Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa?

In the light of Africa’s palpable deficit in public infrastructure,...

Odongo Kodongo, Kalu Ojah

Working Paper

An application of Panzar-Rosse Approach in assessing banking sector competition in Zimb...

An assessment of bank competition is important for a number of reas...

Pierre Le Roux, Sanderson Abel

Policy Brief

Assessing banking sector competition in Zimbabwe using a Panzar-Rosse Approach

This paper assesses the level of competition in Zimbabwe’s banking ...

Sanderson Abel, Pierre Le Roux

Working Paper

The Fundamental Determinants of Competitiveness in African Countries

This study investigates the drivers of competitiveness in African e...

Olumide Taiwo, Julius A. Agbor

Working Paper

Climate change and economic growth in sub-Sahara Africa: A nonparametric evidence

Climate change has been classed as the greatest and urgent global i...

George Adu, Paul Alagidede

Working Paper

Sources of Subsectoral Growth in South Africa

While South Africa’s growth performance has improved somewhat in re...

Fiona Tregenna

Working Paper

Infrastructure and Growth in South Africa: Direct and Indirect Productivity Impacts of ...

Empirical explorations of the growth and productivity impacts of in...

Johannes W. Fedderke, Željko Bogetic

Working Paper