O55 | Economic Research Southern Africa

JEL code: O55

Economywide Country Studies: Africa

The long-term effects of early-life exposure to weather shocks: Evidence from Tanzania

We examine whether early-life exposure to rainfall shocks has a lon...

Published: 29 April 2022

Working Paper

Big data forecasting of South African inflation

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

Published: 25 February 2022

Working Paper

Government religious preference and intrastate conflict

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

Published: 26 August 2021

Working Paper

Differential corporate taxation and inter-asset investment distortions in South Africa

South Africa has since the 1990’s actively reformed its corpo...

Published: 18 June 2021

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Corporate taxation and firm-level investment in South Africa

This paper investigates the responsiveness of firm-level investment...

Published: 15 June 2021

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‘Learning to export’ and ‘learning to innovate’: Revisiting the relationship between in...

This paper examines the relationship between innovation and export ...

Published: 10 May 2021

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The time-varying elasticity of South African electricity demand: 1980–2018

This study estimates the price and income elasticity coefficients o...

Published: 5 November 2020

Working Paper

Policy Bulletin 02: Reflections on Aspects of Public Finance and Fiscal Policy in South...

After the COVID-19 crisis is over, South Africa will face a fiscal ...

Published: 12 September 2020

Policy Bulletin

Does the Pursuit of Outreach Consistently Stifle the Financial Performance of Microfina...

We study the relationship between outreach and the financial perfor...

Published: 19 March 2020

Working Paper

Trade Openness and Fertility Rates in Africa: Panel Data Evidence

We study the effect of trade openness on fertility rates in fifty A...

Published: 13 January 2020

Working Paper

A New Keynesian DSGE model for low income economies with foreign exchange constraints

The existing literature is clear that low income economies tend to ...

Published: 23 September 2019

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

Public Infrastructure Provision and Ethnic Favouritism: Evidence from South Africa

Does ethnic favouritism in administrative governments affect public...

Published: 17 July 2019

Working Paper

The origin of extractive states in Africa: The case of the British Cape Colony, 1834-1909

The majority of African states continue to be regarded as extractiv...

Published: 16 May 2019

Working Paper

Access to micro and informal loans: evaluating the impact on the quality of life of poo...

Since the early 1980s, many governments have investigated the possi...

Published: 30 April 2019

Policy Brief

Access to micro – and informal loans: evaluating the impact on the quality of life of p...

Background: Since the early 1980s, many governments have investigat...

Published: 12 March 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

Financial Structure and Economic Growth: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa

This study examines the effect of financial structure on economic g...

Published: 19 February 2018

Policy Brief

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

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

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

Working Paper

Does Infrastructure Really Explain Economic Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa?

In the light of Africa’s palpable deficit in public infrastructure,...

Published: 14 December 2016

Working Paper

Financial sector development, economic volatility and shocks in sub-Saharan Africa

The role of financial sector development in economic volatility has...

Published: 16 November 2016

Policy Brief

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 Impact of the COMESA-EAC-SADC Tripartite Free Trade Agreement on the South African ...

This paper analyses the effects of the COMESA-EAC-SADC Tripartite F...

Published: 14 September 2016

Working Paper

Globalisation and Conflict: Evidence from sub-Saharan Africa

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

Published: 13 September 2016

Working Paper

The Sectoral Employment Intensity of Growth in South Africa

Concerns have been expressed recently about the inability of the So...

Published: 1 September 2016

Working Paper

The Fertility Transition: Panel Evidence from sub-Saharan Africa

We investigate the effects of different socioeconomic indicators on...

Published: 7 July 2016

Policy Brief

Comovement Between Africa and Advanced Economies: 1980-2011

This paper analyses business cycle comovement between African econo...

Published: 3 February 2016

Working Paper

Latecomer challenge: African Multinationals from the periphery

Multinationals from emerging markets display different characterist...

Published: 7 January 2016

Working Paper

Financial sector development, inflation and openness: A comparative panel study of ECOW...

This paper provides an empirical analysis of the comparative study ...

Published: 30 June 2015

Working Paper

Political transition in a small open economy: Retracing the economic trail of South Afr...

This paper seeks to offer an economic explanation for the emergence...

Published: 8 September 2014

Working Paper

An economic model of the apartheid state

Rather than a rigid racial ideology, it is argued that South Africa...

Published: 18 August 2014

Working Paper

The Good African Society Index

This paper constructs a Good Society Index for 45 African countries...

Published: 4 July 2014

Working Paper

The Good African Society Index

This paper constructs a Good Society Index for 45 African countries...

Published: 4 July 2014

Working Paper

An examination of sub-national growth in Nigeria: 1999 - 2012

I use satellite imagery on night time lights to measure growth acro...

Published: 24 June 2014

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