O54 | Economic Research Southern Africa

JEL code: O54

Economywide Country Studies: Latin America; Caribbean

Arthur Galego Mendes – The Macroeconomic Effects of Cash Transfers: Evidence from Brazil

Abstract This paper provides new evidence on the macroeconomic impa...

Arthur Galego Mendes

Workshop Paper

Economic Growth and Inequality: Evidence from the Young Democracies of South America

We investigate in this paper whether income growth has played any r...

Manoel Bittencourt

Working Paper

Yet Another Look at the Modernisation Hypothesis: Evidence from South America

We investigate in this paper whether the exogenous version of the m...

Manoel Bittencourt

Working Paper

Determinants of Government and External Debt: Evidence from the Young Democracies of So...

We investigate in this paper what are the main determinants of gove...

Manoel Bittencourt

Working Paper

Young Democracies and Government Size: Evidence from South America

We investigate in this paper the hypothesis that when democracies a...

Manoel Bittencourt

Working Paper

Financial Development and Economic Growth in Latin America: Is Schumpeter Right?

In this paper we investigate the role of financial development, or ...

Manoel Bittencourt

Working Paper

Democracy, Populism and Hyperinflation(s): Some Evidence from Latin America

We test for the populist view of inflation in Latin America between...

Manoel Bittencourt

Working Paper

Macroeconomic performance and inequality: Brazil 1983-1994

We examine how poor macroeconomic performance, mainly in the role o...

Manoel Bittencourt

Working Paper

Exchange rate pass-through to import prices in South Africa: Is there asymmetry?

We examine the impact of financial development on earnings inequali...

Nicolette Cattaneo, T. D. Karoro, Meshach J. Aziakpono

Working Paper

Exchange rate pass-through to import prices in South Africa: Is there asymmetry?

This paper examines the magnitude and speed of exchange rate pass-t...

Meshach J. Aziakpono, Nicolette Cattaneo, T. D. Karoro

Working Paper

Inflation and Financial Development: Evidence from Brazil

We examine the impact of inflation on financial development in Braz...

Manoel Bittencourt

Working Paper