O33 | Economic Research Southern Africa

JEL code: O33

Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes

Banks’ Physical Footprint and Financial Technology Adoption

Working Paper 888 Do physical bank branches moderate the diffusion ...

Published: 26 September 2023

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...

Published: 29 January 2021

Working Paper

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

Industrialisation is recognised as important for developing countri...

Published: 15 January 2021

Working Paper

The J-Curve Phenomenon: Evidence from Commodity Trade Between South Africa and the Unit...

Across the world, efforts by countries to gain international compet...

Published: 7 May 2019

Policy Brief

Shaking out or shaking in: The impact of Zimbabwe’s economic crisis on the country’s ma...

Following Zimbabwe’s economic crisis between 1997 and 2009, a...

Published: 29 January 2019

Policy Brief

Shaking out or shaking in: The impact of Zimbabwe's economic crisis on the country's ma...

Zimbabwe had one of the world’s worst economic crises from th...

Published: 28 June 2018

Working Paper

Race to the top: Does competition in the DSL market matter for fibre penetration?

High speed broadband creates potential productivity gains and has a...

Published: 11 December 2017

Policy Brief

The Interdependence between the Saving Rate and Technology across Regimes: Evidence fro...

This paper hypothesises that the saving rate and technological prog...

Published: 24 March 2017

Policy Brief

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

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

Published: 21 February 2017

Policy Brief

Financial Innovation and Economic Growth in the SADC

The study empirically establishes the causal relationship between f...

Published: 18 August 2016

Working Paper

Financial Reforms and the Finance – Growth Relationship in the Southern African Develop...

This study seeks to establish the casual relationship between finan...

Published: 17 June 2016

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Foreign Firm Ownership and Productivity Spillovers in the Southern African Development ...

The study uses firm level data from the World Bank Enterprise Surve...

Published: 13 April 2016

Working Paper

Climate, Technological Change and Economic Growth

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

Published: 11 January 2016

Policy Brief

Financial Development and the Diffusion of Technologies under Uncertainty in Africa

Using novel measures of technology diffusion and adoption developed...

Published: 21 October 2014

Working Paper

The Economics of Information Technology in Public Sector Health Facilities in Developin...

The public healthcare sector in developing countries face many chal...

Published: 25 September 2012

Working Paper

Technology, Human Capital and Growth

The paper examines whether endogenous growth processes can be found...

Published: 19 September 2012

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