Q25 | Economic Research Southern Africa

JEL code: Q25

Renewable Resources and Conservation: Water

A review of the strategies adopted between 2015 and 2022 towards two South African loca...

Working Paper 885 This paper reviews combined local and national go...

Marius van der Merwe, Stephen G. Hosking

Working Paper

The effects of presentation formats in choice experiments

Although stated-preference surveys take various forms, the use of e...

Johane Dikgang, Genius Murwirapachena

Policy Brief

Skills, employment, strong local institutions and good relationships between people and...

Subsistence poaching can severely threaten biodiversity and communi...

Herbert Ntuli, Edwin Muchapondwa, Amanda Linell, Aksel Sundström, Sverker C. Jagers, Martin Sjöstedt

Policy Brief

Efficiency of South African water utilities: a double bootstrap DEA analysis

Although the efficiency of the water sector has been studied extens...

Jugal Mahabir, Johane Dikgang, Celiwe Samkange

Working Paper

Efficiency in South African water utilities: a comparison of estimates from DEA, SFA an...

Climate change has brought renewed and increasing attention to the ...

Jugal Mahabir, Richard Mulwa, Johane Dikgang, Genius Murwirapachena

Policy Brief

To what extent does socio-economic status still affect household access to water and sa...

It is publically acknowledged that South Africa has recently met is...

Tamlyn McKenzie, Bruce Rhodes

Policy Brief

Counting the cost of drought induced productivity losses in an agro-based economy: The ...

Climate variability can affect economies directly through its impac...

Elizabeth L. Roos, Nicholas Kilimani, Jan H. van Heerden, Heinrich R. Bohlmann

Working Paper

Confronting South Africa’s Water Challenge: A Decomposition Analysis of Water Intensity

Water resource intensity measures the intensity of water use in ter...

Marcel Kohler

Policy Brief

Resistance to the Regulation of Common Resources in Rural Tunisia

We examine the effect of the introduction of uniform water-charging...

Timothy Swanson, Xiaoying Liu, Mare Sarr

Working Paper

Effects of climatic conditions and agro-ecological settings on the productive efficienc...

This study argues that the adaptation measures farmers take to redu...

Temesgen T. Deressa

Working Paper