R12 | Economic Research Southern Africa

JEL code: R12

Size and Spatial Distributions of Regional Economic Activity

Request for Proposals: The role of cities as drivers of growth and employment

Background Urbanization in South Africa is expected to reach 80% by...

Call for Work

South Africa’s future will be decided in our cities

Discussion Document 14 South Africa’s cities face multiple, overlap...

Dieter von Fintel, Justin Visagie, Ivan Turok, Takwanisa Machemedze, Claus Rabe, Sebastian Galiani, Edward Glaeser

Discussion Document

Dr Rossouw van Jaarsveld on developing a forex network model: how to highlight risk tra...

Have you ever wondered how sensitive the South African Rand is to s...

Rossouw van Jaarsveld

Podcast

Exploring evidence of spatial economic agglomeration in Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municip...

Since Marshall’s (1890) work on industrial districts in 19^{t...

Koech Cheruiyot

Working Paper

Impact of Crime on Firm Entry: Evidence from South Africa

In this paper, we analyse the relationship between crime and the en...

Lawrence Edwards, Godfrey Mahofa, Asha Sundaram

Working Paper

Spatial Externalities, Openness and Financial Development in SADC: Beyond the Multilate...

This study empirically evaluates spatial externalities in financial...

Gift Mugano, Pierre Le Roux, Alex Bara

Working Paper

The Contribution of Fiscal Decentralization to Regional Inequality: Empirical Results f...

Over the past two decades, many African countries have carried out ...

Ramos Mabugu, Hammed Amusa

Policy Brief

Buyer-Seller Relationships in International Trade: Do Your Neighbors Matter?

Using confidential U.S. customs data on trade transactions between ...

Fariha Kamal, Asha Sundaram

Working Paper

The spatial persistence of population and wealth during apartheid: comparing the 1911 a...

This article examines the spatial distribution of people and wealth...

Waldo F. Krugell

Working Paper

Do rent-seeking and interregional transfers contribute to urban primacy in sub-Saharan ...

We develop an economic geography model where mobile skilled workers...

Alain P. Bala, Kristian Behrens

Working Paper