Q18 | Economic Research Southern Africa

JEL code: Q18

Agricultural Policy; Food Policy

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

Revisiting the accuracy of inflation forecasts in Nigeria: The oil price-exchange rate-...

Motivated by the distinctive paradoxical nature of the Nigerian eco...

Yusuf Yakubua, Ojo Adelakun, Kazeem Isah, Elias Udeaja, Abdulkader C. Mahomedy

Working Paper

Does the uptake of multiple climate smart agriculture practices enhance household savin...

Climate change and variability poses a significant hindrance on agr...

Herbert Ntuli, Gibson Mudiriza, Edwin Muchapondwa, Boscow Okumu, Alfred K. Mukong

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

The South African - United States Sovereign Bond Spread and its Association with Macroe...

The yield spread of South African to United States 10 year governme...

Johannes W. Fedderke

Working Paper

Consumer Preferences for Genetically Modified Organisms in Cape Town: A Choice Experime...

This paper reports a study done on Cape Town consumers, with the ai...

Herbert Ntuli, Benjamin Dovey

Working Paper

Farm diversification and climate change: implications for food security in Northern Nam...

Limited non-farm opportunities in the rural areas of the developing...

Martine Visser, Chalmers Mulwa

Policy Brief

Naturally Available Pollinator Decline Will Decrease Household Food and Increase Gender...

This multi-country analysis studies the food security implications ...

Byela Tibesigwa

Working Paper

Small-scale farming and food security: the enabling role of cash transfers in South Afr...

Cash transfers successfully alleviate poverty in many developing co...

Louw Pienaar, Dieter von Fintel

Working Paper

Gender Differences in Climate Change Risk, Food Security and Adaptation: A Study of Rur...

Climate and weather variability in sub-Saharan Africa disproportion...

M. Collinson, Wayne Twine, Martine Visser, L. Hunter, Byela Tibesigwa

Working Paper

Small-scale Subsistence Farming, Food Security, Climate Change and Adaptation in South ...

This study examines the role of gender of the head of household on ...

Martine Visser, Byela Tibesigwa

Working Paper

Does Famine Matter For Aggregate Adolescent Human Capital Acquisition In Sub-Saharan Af...

To the extent that in utero and childhood malnutrition negatively a...

Julius A. Agbor, Gregory N. Price

Working Paper

Price Discovery and Price Risk Management Before and After Deregulation of the South Af...

The withdrawal of the Maize Board in 1996 meant that farmers could ...

Alexander Behar

Working Paper

The economic rationale for agricultural regeneration and rural infrastructure investmen...

This paper informs government policy insofar as it relates to the a...

André Jooste, Tama I. Fényes, Nico G. Meyer, Marthinus C. Breitenbach

Working Paper

Can the restrictive harvest period policy conserve mopane worms in Southern Africa? A b...

Imbrasia Belina also known as the mopane worm, like other edible in...

Wisdom Akpalu, Precious Zikhali, Edwin Muchapondwa

Working Paper

Market Regulation and Agricultural development

Policy Paper (Interest) 10 Those analysts who favour deregulation i...

Policy Paper