P16 | Economic Research Southern Africa

JEL code: P16

Capitalist Systems: Political Economy

How Buoyant Is the South African Tax System? An ARDL Approach

This study aims to scrutinize the responsiveness of the South Afric...

Published: 22 September 2020

Working Paper

Monetary policy and inequality

South Africa is one of the most unequal countries in the world and ...

Published: 30 July 2020

Policy Brief

The political economy of palm oil expansion and deforestation in Indonesia

This paper studies the interactions between political and economic ...

Published: 20 July 2020

Working Paper

Late colonial antecedents of modern democracy

Some of the most contested questions in political science and polit...

Published: 3 July 2020

Working Paper

The Impact of Political Competition on Economic Growth: Evidence from Municipalities in...

This paper examines the impact of political competition on economic...

Published: 17 June 2015

Policy Brief

A Dream Deferred: the Microfoundations of Direct Political Action in Pre- and Post-demo...

Persistent protests might endanger the stability of young democraci...

Published: 28 November 2014

Working Paper

The social and political case for promoting economic growth and broad-based innovation ...

Popular protest in South Africa has increased sharply in recent yea...

Published: 24 November 2014

Policy Brief

Addressing structural change issues in the context of South Africa's political dispensa...

The current structure of South Africa’s economy is partly a product...

Published: 21 November 2014

Policy Brief

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

Is Democracy Eluding Sub-Saharan Africa?

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

Published: 23 June 2014

Working Paper

Does Education Promote Stable Property Rights?

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

Published: 21 October 2013

Working Paper

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

Working Paper

Don’t Make War, Make Elections. Franchise Extension and Violence in XIXth-Century Colombia

This paper studies the effect of strengthening democracy, as captur...

Published: 12 March 2013

Working Paper

The politics of state, society and economy

Policy Paper (Interest) 06 The article takes issue with the way in ...

Published: 27 September 2001

Policy Paper