Q5 | Economic Research Southern Africa

JEL code: Q5

Recreation Demand and Optimal Pricing for International Visitors to Kruger National Park

Sustainable financing of conservation is a key challenge in develop...

Edwin Muchapondwa, Samson Mukanjari, Eyoual Demeke

Policy Brief

Electricity crisis and the effect of CO2 emissions on infrastructure-growth nexus in Su...

Sub Saharan Africa (SSA) has the greatest proportion of its populat...

Paul Alagidede, Chengete Chakamera

Policy Brief

Co-operation, institutional quality and management outcome in community based micro hyd...

Community based micro hydro grids in developing countries have char...

Mary Karumba, Edwin Muchapondwa

Working Paper

Economic valuation of forest ecosystem services in Kenya: Implication for design of PES...

Forest ecosystem services are critical for human well-being as well...

Edwin Muchapondwa, Boscow Okumu

Policy Brief

Mechanism between mining sector and economic growth in Zimbabwe, is it a resource curse?

The study investigates the role of mineral resources in economic de...

Nyasha Mahonye, Leonard Mandishara

Working Paper

A comparison of the values of water inflows into selected South African estuaries: the ...

Estuaries are open access public goods in the sense that it is diff...

Stephen G. Hosking, Johane Dikgang

Working Paper

Investigating the Sensitivity of Household Food Security to Agriculture-related Shocks ...

Resource-poor rural South Africa is characterised by high human den...

Wayne Twine, Martine Visser, Byela Tibesigwa

Working Paper

Climate, geography and African economic history

Africa’s ‘bad’ geographic and environmental features have long been...

ERSA

Workshop

Do the Poor Benefit from Devolution Policies? Evidences from Quantile Treatment Effect ...

Existing literature have rarely evaluated distributive effect of Jo...

Steven F. Koch, Edwin Muchapondwa, Dambala Gelo

Working Paper

Estimation of optimal conservation fees for international park visitors in the Kgalagad...

This paper estimates the visitation demand function for Kgalagadi T...

Johane Dikgang, Edwin Muchapondwa

Working Paper

The Economic Evaluation of Dryland Ecosystem Services in the South African Kgalagadi Ar...

The economic importance of the dryland ecosystem services in the Kg...

Johane Dikgang, Edwin Muchapondwa

Working Paper

The Economic Evaluation of Dryland Ecosystem Services in the South African Kgalagadi by...

This study seeks to value ecosystem services in the Kgalagadi area ...

Johane Dikgang, Edwin Muchapondwa

Working Paper

Dependence on Environmental Resources and Implications for Household Welfare: Evidence ...

This paper examines dependence on environmental resources and impac...

Gladman Thondhlana, Edwin Muchapondwa

Working Paper

Managing Some Motorised Recreational Boating Challenges in South African Estuaries: A C...

Estuaries in South Africa face negative crowding effects with respe...

Stephen G. Hosking, Mario du Preez, Deborah E. Lee

Working Paper

Valuing User Preferences for Improvements in Public Nature Trails Around the Sundays Ri...

Many valuations have been made of changes to in-estuary attributes ...

Stephen G. Hosking, Mario du Preez, Deborah E. Lee

Working Paper

Modeling of Illegal Behaviour in Natural Resource Management in Developing Countries

ERSA and the School of Economics at the University of Cape Town inv...

ERSA

Workshop

Is Water Shedding Next?

South Africa is in the grip of an electricity crisis marked by a eu...

Jan H. van Heerden, James N. Blignaut

Working Paper

Climate Change and Southern Africa

Wits Business School, ERSA and The National Treasury cordially invi...

Wits Business School, National Treasury, ERSA

Workshop