O43 | Economic Research Southern Africa

JEL code: O43

Institutions and Growth

How Buoyant Is the South African Tax System? An ARDL Approach

This study aims to scrutinize the responsiveness of the South Afric...

Nyasha Mahonye, Baneng Naape

Working Paper

A Sequence to Reverse Poverty: Institutions, State Capacity and Human Empowerment

This paper explores the fundamental or deep causes of poverty persi...

Sansia Blackmore, Reneé van Eyden

Working Paper

Which comes first: good governance or prosperity? A historical experiment from the Sout...

Two neighbouring republics, with a common history and culture, foll...

Stan Du Plessis, Sophia du Plessis

Working Paper

Spatial Externality, Openness and Financial Development in SADC: Beyond the Multilatera...

Economic variables tend to exhibit variation not only over time, bu...

Pierre Le Roux, Alex Bara, Gift Mugano

Policy Brief

The impact of home and host country institutions in the internationalization of an Afri...

We demonstrate that firms can exploit their knowledge of ‘weak’ ins...

Anthea Jefthas, Dustin Stringfellow, John M. Luiz

Policy Brief

Financial sector development, inflation and openness: A comparative panel study of ECOW...

This paper provides an empirical analysis of the comparative study ...

Sulemana Mahawiya

Working Paper

The social and political case for promoting economic growth and broad-based innovation ...

Popular protest in South Africa has increased sharply in recent yea...

Biniam E. Bedasso

Policy Brief

Effects of Primary, Secondary and Tertiary Education on Conflict Intensity in Africa

This study investigates the impact of different dimensions of schoo...

Julius A. Agbor

Working Paper

The Legacy of Historical Conflict Evidence from Africa

This paper exploits variation between and within countries to exami...

Marta Reynal-Querol, Timothy Besley

Working Paper

The Impact of Economic Freedom on Economic Growth in the SADC: An Individual Component ...

The SADC is attempting to achieve development and economic growth. ...

Vsevolod I. Gorlach, Pierre Le Roux

Working Paper

Does School Education Reduce the Likelihood of Societal Conflict in Africa?

This paper empirically tests the hypothesis that education, as meas...

Julius A. Agbor

Working Paper

A history with evidence: Income inequality in the Dutch Cape Colony

The arrival of European settlers at the Cape in 1652 marked the beg...

Johan Fourie, Dieter von Fintel

Working Paper

Climate Change Disaster Management: Mitigation and Adaptation in a Public Goods Framework

This paper explores the collective action problem as it relates to ...

Åsa Löfgren, Reviva Hasson, Martine Visser

Working Paper

The Economic Origins of Twentieth Century Decolonisation in West Africa

This paper argues that the pattern of decolonisation in West Africa...

Julius A. Agbor

Working Paper

The dynamics of inequality in a newly settled, preindustrial society: The case of the C...

Inequality is a major concern in many of the world’s developing reg...

Johan Fourie, Dieter von Fintel

Working Paper

Characterizing Conflict Forms

This paper presents a model in which two groups in society are enga...

Chandana Kularatne, Johannes W. Fedderke

Working Paper