O55 | Economic Research Southern Africa

JEL code: O55

Economywide Country Studies: Africa

The long-term effects of early-life exposure to weather shocks: Evidence from Tanzania

We examine whether early-life exposure to rainfall shocks has a lon...

Ermias G. Weldesenbet

Working Paper

Big data forecasting of South African inflation

We investigate whether the use of machine learning techniques and b...

Rulof P. Burger, Neil Rankin, Kevin Kotze, Byron Botha

Working Paper

Government religious preference and intrastate conflict

Understanding the causes and consequences of conflicts continues to...

Matthew W. Clance, Eduard van der Merwe, Carolyn Chisadza

Working Paper

Differential corporate taxation and inter-asset investment distortions in South Africa

South Africa has since the 1990’s actively reformed its corpo...

Mashekwa Maboshe, Matthew Stern, Yash Ramkolowan

Working Paper

Corporate taxation and firm-level investment in South Africa

This paper investigates the responsiveness of firm-level investment...

Mashekwa Maboshe

Working Paper

‘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

The time-varying elasticity of South African electricity demand: 1980–2018

This study estimates the price and income elasticity coefficients o...

Kabelo Masike, Cobus Vermeulen

Working Paper

Policy Bulletin 02: Reflections on Aspects of Public Finance and Fiscal Policy in South...

After the COVID-19 crisis is over, South Africa will face a fiscal ...

Estian Calitz

Policy Bulletin

Does the Pursuit of Outreach Consistently Stifle the Financial Performance of Microfina...

We study the relationship between outreach and the financial perfor...

Sydney Chikalipah

Working Paper

Trade Openness and Fertility Rates in Africa: Panel Data Evidence

We study the effect of trade openness on fertility rates in fifty A...

Matthew W. Clance, Yoseph Y. Getachew, Manoel Bittencourt

Working Paper

A New Keynesian DSGE model for low income economies with foreign exchange constraints

The existing literature is clear that low income economies tend to ...

Bertha C. Bangara

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

Public Infrastructure Provision and Ethnic Favouritism: Evidence from South Africa

Does ethnic favouritism in administrative governments affect public...

Leoné Walters, Manoel Bittencourt, Carolyn Chisadza

Working Paper

The origin of extractive states in Africa: The case of the British Cape Colony, 1834-1909

The majority of African states continue to be regarded as extractiv...

Johan Fourie, Abel Gwaindepi

Working Paper

Access to micro and informal loans: evaluating the impact on the quality of life of poo...

Since the early 1980s, many governments have investigated the possi...

Talita Dalton-Greyling

Policy Brief

Access to micro – and informal loans: evaluating the impact on the quality of life of p...

Background: Since the early 1980s, many governments have investigat...

Talita Dalton-Greyling, Stephanié Rossouw

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

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

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

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

Financial sector development, economic volatility and shocks in sub-Saharan Africa

The role of financial sector development in economic volatility has...

Paul Alagidede, Muazu Ibrahim

Policy Brief

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 Impact of the COMESA-EAC-SADC Tripartite Free Trade Agreement on the South African ...

This paper analyses the effects of the COMESA-EAC-SADC Tripartite F...

Heinrich R. Bohlmann, Matthew W. Clance, Leoné Walters

Working Paper

Globalisation and Conflict: Evidence from sub-Saharan Africa

Stephen Pinker (2011) advances that various forms of violence such ...

Carolyn Chisadza, Manoel Bittencourt

Working Paper

The Sectoral Employment Intensity of Growth in South Africa

Concerns have been expressed recently about the inability of the So...

Njabulo Mkhize

Working Paper

The Fertility Transition: Panel Evidence from sub-Saharan Africa

We investigate the effects of different socioeconomic indicators on...

Manoel Bittencourt, Carolyn Chisadza

Policy Brief

Comovement Between Africa and Advanced Economies: 1980-2011

This paper analyses business cycle comovement between African econo...

Elsabé Loots, Carike Claassen, Alain Kabundi

Working Paper

Latecomer challenge: African Multinationals from the periphery

Multinationals from emerging markets display different characterist...

Grietjie Verhoef

Working Paper

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

Political transition in a small open economy: Retracing the economic trail of South Afr...

This paper seeks to offer an economic explanation for the emergence...

Biniam E. Bedasso

Working Paper

An economic model of the apartheid state

Rather than a rigid racial ideology, it is argued that South Africa...

Anton D. Lowenberg

Working Paper

The Good African Society Index

This paper constructs a Good Society Index for 45 African countries...

Ferdi Botha

Working Paper

The Good African Society Index

This paper constructs a Good Society Index for 45 African countries...

Ferdi Botha

Working Paper

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