Q56 | Economic Research Southern Africa

JEL code: Q56

Environment and Development; Environment and Trade; Sustainability; Environmental Accounts and Accounting; Environmental Equity; Population Growth

Building a competitive and dynamic green industrial sector in South Africa after COVID-19

Policy Paper 28 COVID-19 gave the world a glimpse of how devastatin...

Tendai Gwatidzo, Witness Simbanegavi

Policy Paper

Sailing into the Wind: evaluating the (near) future of Monetary Policy in South Africa

Policy Paper 25 This paper evaluates the main challenges facing Sou...

Nicola Viegi, Tumisang Loate-Ntsoko, Ekaterina Pirozhkova

Policy Paper

Impact of technological progress on carbon emissions in different country income groups

This study examines the complex relationship between carbon emissio...

Roula Inglesi-Lotz, Chris B. Milindi

Working Paper

The transmission of monetary policy via the banks' balance sheet - does bank size matter?

We study the credit channel of monetary policy in South Africa betw...

Tumisang Loate-Ntsoko, Nicola Viegi

Working Paper

The effects of technology intensity in manufacturing on CO2 emissions: Evidence from de...

Industrialisation is recognised as important for developing countri...

Fiona Tregenna, Elvis K. Avenyo

Working Paper

Impact of Social Transfers on Depressive Symptoms: Evidence from the South African Old ...

We study the effect of income receipt in form of Old age pension (...

Joseph Ajefu, Adeola Oyenubi

Working Paper

Does Child Support Grant incentivise childbirth in South Africa?

We consider the perverse incentive that can be created for poor hou...

Umakrishnan Kollamparambil, Adeola Oyenubi

Working Paper

Does household net financial wealth explain the asymmetric reaction of household consum...

Ndou et al (2019) showed that, in absolute terms, the decline in ho...

Eliphas Ndou

Working Paper

Prenatal health and weather-related shocks under social safety net policy in Kenya

Exposure to weather shocks around the time of birth has been shown ...

Djiby R. Thiam, Silas Ongudi

Working Paper

Monetary policy and inequality

South Africa is one of the most unequal countries in the world and ...

Neryvia Pillay Bell

Policy Brief

The political economy of palm oil expansion and deforestation in Indonesia

This paper studies the interactions between political and economic ...

Nunung Nuryartono, Krisztina Kis-Katosz, Elías Cisnerosy

Working Paper

Can local communities afford full control over wildlife conservation? The Case of CAMPF...

Wildlife is widely becoming an important vehicle for rural developm...

Herbert Ntuli, Edwin Muchapondwa, Boscow Okumu

Policy Brief

Energy Consumption in South African Hotels: A Panel Data Analysis

Addressing the large energy consumption of hotels requires an under...

Nyankomo Marwa, Love O. Idahosa, Joseph O. Akotey

Working Paper

Will Technological Change Save the World? The Rebound Effect in International Transfer...

Technological change and its transfer to developing countries is of...

Tim Swanson, Mare Sarr

Policy Brief

Climate, Technological Change and Economic Growth

This paper investigates the incentive for developing adaptation tec...

Paul Alagidede, George Adu

Policy Brief

Vulnerability to climatic variability: An assessment of drought prevalence on water res...

The volatile changes in climate are increasingly becoming a threat ...

Nicholas Kilimani

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

Water Resource Accounts for Uganda: Use and Policy Relevancy

The increasing variability in the climatic pattern and its adverse ...

Nicholas Kilimani

Working Paper

CO2 Emissions, Energy Consumption, Income and Foreign Trade: A South African Perspective

The effect of trade liberalisation on environmental conditions has ...

Marcel Kohler

Working Paper

Risk Preferences and Environmental Uncertainty: Implications for Crop Diversification D...

To the extent that diversifying income portfolio is used as a strat...

Mare Sarr, Mintewab Bezabih

Working Paper

The impact of international trade on changing patterns of energy use in South African i...

South Africa’s competitiveness in many industrial products is depen...

Marcel Kohler

Working Paper