O10 | Economic Research Southern Africa

JEL code: O10

Economic Development: General

Big data forecasting of South African inflation

We investigate whether the use of machine learning techniques and b...

Published: 25 February 2022

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Government religious preference and intrastate conflict

Understanding the causes and consequences of conflicts continues to...

Published: 26 August 2021

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The persistence of apartheid regional wage disparities in South Africa

Despite the ending of apartheid, regional wage disparities remain p...

Published: 2 April 2020

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Aid Volatility and Structural Economic Transformation in sub-Saharan Africa

To what extent does Official Development Assistance (ODA) volatilit...

Published: 24 July 2017

Policy Brief

Aid Volatility and Structural Economic Transformation in sub-Saharan Africa: Does Finan...

This paper departs from the traditional aid–economic growth studies...

Published: 12 January 2017

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Globalisation and Conflict: Evidence from sub-Saharan Africa

Stephen Pinker (2011) advances that various forms of violence such ...

Published: 13 September 2016

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The Impact of Fractionalization on Cultural Distance Measures

We examine the impact of ethno-linguistic fractionalization (ELF) o...

Published: 15 April 2015

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Is Democracy Eluding Sub-Saharan Africa?

This paper analyses the modernisation hypothesis in the sub-Saharan...

Published: 23 June 2014

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Does Education Promote Stable Property Rights?

This paper sets out to establish an empirical link between educatio...

Published: 21 October 2013

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The Impact of the Slave Trade on Literacy in Africa: Evidence from the Colonial Era

Recent studies have highlighted the importance of Africa’s hi...

Published: 7 October 2013

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Yet Another Look at the Modernisation Hypothesis: Evidence from South America

We investigate in this paper whether the exogenous version of the m...

Published: 4 April 2013

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Heights and development in a Cash-Crop Colony: Living standards in Ghana, 1870-1980

While Ghana is a classic case of economic growth in an agricultural...

Published: 15 January 2013

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

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

Published: 7 December 2012

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Heterogeneity Happens: How Rights Matter in Economic Development

The paper examines how much governance matters for long run economi...

Published: 23 September 2012

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An examination of the Impact of Economic Policy on long-run Economic Growth: An applica...

This paper examines the impact of two indicators of government poli...

Published: 27 September 2002

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An examination of the impact of financial deepening on long-run economic growth: An app...

This paper examines the impact of financial deepening on long run e...

Published: 27 September 2001

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