O18 | Economic Research Southern Africa

JEL code: O18

Economic Development: Urban, Rural, Regional, and Transportation Analysis; Housing; Infrastructure

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

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

Published: 27 July 2023

Call for Work

South Africa’s future will be decided in our cities

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

Published: 23 June 2023

Discussion Document

Cities, productivity and Jobs in SA: Problems and potential

Discussion Document 12 Cities contribute to national prosperity bec...

Published: 22 May 2023

Discussion Document

Place-based economic policies: international lessons for South Africa

Discussion Document 11 Place-based policies are designed to support...

Published: 22 May 2023

Discussion Document

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

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

Published: 20 January 2020

Working Paper

Inequality in South Africa: what does a composite index of wellbeing reveal?

Policymakers need better information regarding wellbeing inequality...

Published: 18 September 2019

Working Paper

Quality of life: validation of an instrument and analysis of relationships between dime...

Background The conventional approach to measuring quality of life w...

Published: 23 April 2019

Policy Brief

Quality of life: Validation of an instrument and analysis of relationships between domains

Quality of life (QoL) is now widely recognised as a multidimensiona...

Published: 5 February 2019

Working Paper

Regional disparities in income-independent quality of life in South Africa: convergence...

The purpose of this study is to add to the empirical literature reg...

Published: 28 March 2018

Working Paper

Impact of Crime on Firm Entry: Evidence from South Africa

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

Published: 2 December 2016

Working Paper

Non-Economic Quality of Life and Population Density in South Africa

The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship betwee...

Published: 11 October 2016

Working Paper

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

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

Published: 14 April 2016

Policy Brief

Construction and analysis of a composite quality of life index for a region of South Af...

This study employs a novel approach to measure and analyse quality ...

Published: 21 November 2014

Working Paper

Where you live matters: Urbanisation and labour markets outcomes

Policy Paper 17 Given apartheid’s legacy of irrational spatial plan...

Published: 3 October 2012

Policy Paper