O47 | Economic Research Southern Africa

JEL code: O47

Measurement of Economic Growth; Aggregate Productivity; Cross-Country Output Convergence

Dr Daan Steenkamp on forecasting GDP: why trucks matter in SA

In our second podcast with Dr Daan Steenkamp, a lead economist at t...

Margaux Giannaros, Daan Steenkamp

Podcast

Dr Daan Steenkamp on nowcasting: how economists benefit from machine learning and big data

With the unprecedented level of uncertainty in the economy, the abi...

Margaux Giannaros, Daan Steenkamp

Podcast

Financial Structure and Economic Growth: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa

This study examines the effect of financial structure on economic g...

Eftychia Nikolaidou, Naomi M. Mathenge

Policy Brief

Institutions and Other Determinants of Total Factor Productivity in Sub-Saharan Africa

The primacy of factors of production, such as labour and capital, o...

Olusegun A. Akanbi, David Fadiran

Working Paper

Aid Volatility and Structural Economic Transformation in sub-Saharan Africa

To what extent does Official Development Assistance (ODA) volatilit...

Thomas Yeboah, Muazu Ibrahim, Emmanuel Kumi

Policy Brief

The Interdependence between the Saving Rate and Technology across Regimes: Evidence fro...

This paper hypothesises that the saving rate and technological prog...

Kevin S. Nell, Maria M. De Mello

Policy Brief

Aid Volatility and Structural Economic Transformation in sub-Saharan Africa: Does Finan...

This paper departs from the traditional aid–economic growth studies...

Thomas Yeboah, Muazu Ibrahim, Emmanuel Kumi

Working Paper

Output Decomposition in the Presence of Input Quality Effects: A Stochastic Frontier Ap...

How do physical capital accumulation and Total Factor Productivity ...

Yasmina R. Limam, Stephen M. Miller, Giampaolo Garzarelli

Policy Brief

Nowcasting Real GDP growth in South Africa

This paper uses nowcasting to forecast real GDP growth in South Afr...

Elmarie Nel, Franz Ruch, Alain Kabundi

Policy Brief

Accounting for Productivity Growth: Schumpeterian versus Semi-Endogenous Explanations

In this paper we analyze whether empirical evidence across a range ...

Yang Liu, Johannes W. Fedderke

Policy Brief

Accounting for Productivity Growth: Schumpeterian versus Semi-Endogenous Explanantions

This paper examines the nature and sources of productivity growth i...

Yang Liu, Johannes W. Fedderke

Working Paper

The Impact of Political Competition on Economic Growth: Evidence from Municipalities in...

This paper examines the impact of political competition on economic...

Nonso Obikili

Policy Brief

An examination of sub-national growth in Nigeria: 1999 - 2012

I use satellite imagery on night time lights to measure growth acro...

Nonso Obikili

Working Paper

How Does Colonial Origin Matter for Economic Performance in sub-Saharan Africa?

This paper investigates the channels through which colonial origin ...

Johannes W. Fedderke, Julius A. Agbor, Nicola Viegi

Working Paper

Technology, Human Capital and Growth

The paper examines whether endogenous growth processes can be found...

Johannes W. Fedderke

Working Paper

The contribution of growth in total factor productivity to growth in South Africa: 1970-97

Policy Paper (Interest) 16 This paper is concerned with revealing t...

Johannes W. Fedderke

Policy Paper