Q54 | Economic Research Southern Africa

JEL code: Q54

Climate; Natural Disasters; Global Warming

Climate change and child health: A Nigerian perspective

The detrimental effect of climate change on health is becoming an e...

Published: 25 April 2022

Working Paper

Revisiting the accuracy of inflation forecasts in Nigeria: The oil price-exchange rate-...

Motivated by the distinctive paradoxical nature of the Nigerian eco...

Published: 8 March 2022

Working Paper

Does the uptake of multiple climate smart agriculture practices enhance household savin...

Climate change and variability poses a significant hindrance on agr...

Published: 12 January 2022

Working Paper

Building a competitive and dynamic green industrial sector in South Africa after COVID-19

Policy Paper 28 COVID-19 gave the world a glimpse of how devastatin...

Published: 28 June 2021

Policy Paper

Fiscal risks and their impact on banks’ capital buffers in South Africa

South Africa’s fiscal balances have deteriorated significantly over...

Published: 11 June 2021

Working Paper

Transhumant pastoralism, climate change and conﬂict in Africa

We consider the effects of climate change on seasonally migrant pop...

Published: 7 May 2021

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

Does household net financial wealth explain the asymmetric reaction of household consum...

Ndou et al (2019) showed that, in absolute terms, the decline in ho...

Published: 14 September 2020

Working Paper

Prenatal health and weather-related shocks under social safety net policy in Kenya

Exposure to weather shocks around the time of birth has been shown ...

Published: 28 August 2020

Working Paper

Policy Bulletin 03: Macroeconomic policy options for a savings constrained economy: the...

Economic growth requires delivering a credible fiscal consolidation...

Published: 1 July 2020

Policy Bulletin

Farm diversification and climate change: implications for food security in Northern Nam...

Limited non-farm opportunities in the rural areas of the developing...

Published: 2 October 2019

Policy Brief

South African attitudes about nuclear power: The case of the nuclear energy expansion p...

Excessive use of fossil fuels is widely acknowledged as one of the ...

Published: 6 August 2018

Policy Brief

Pricing electricty blackout among South African households

South African households, like households in many other developing ...

Published: 12 January 2018

Working Paper

South African attitudes about nuclear power: The case of the nuclear energy expansion

The objective of our study is to investigate households’ attitudes ...

Published: 10 January 2018

Working Paper

Decomposing the South African CO₂ emissions within a BRICS countries context: The energ...

The main purpose of this study is to test the hypothesis of the reb...

Published: 26 June 2017

Policy Brief

Counting the cost of drought induced productivity losses in an agro-based economy: The ...

Climate variability can affect economies directly through its impac...

Published: 21 June 2016

Working Paper

Climate change and Agriculture: What is the Role of Wildlife in adaptation in South Afr...

Climate change poses a serious problem to agriculture sector especi...

Published: 7 June 2016

Policy Brief

Agriculture and adaptation to climate change: The role of wildlife ranching in South Af...

In this paper, we explored the role of wildlife in adaptation to cl...

Published: 17 February 2016

Working Paper

Climate, Technological Change and Economic Growth

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

Published: 11 January 2016

Policy Brief

An Economic Analysis of Climate Change and Wildlife Utilization on Private Land: Eviden...

Wildlife ranching is emerging as a new frontier for wildlife conser...

Published: 8 October 2015

Working Paper

Gender Differences in Climate Change Risk, Food Security and Adaptation: A Study of Rur...

Climate and weather variability in sub-Saharan Africa disproportion...

Published: 9 September 2015

Working Paper

Small-scale Subsistence Farming, Food Security, Climate Change and Adaptation in South ...

This study examines the role of gender of the head of household on ...

Published: 25 June 2015

Working Paper

Climate change and economic growth in sub-Sahara Africa: A nonparametric evidence

Climate change has been classed as the greatest and urgent global i...

Published: 8 September 2014

Working Paper

A Cost-Benefit Analysis of Concentrator Photovoltaic Technology Use in South Africa: A ...

The South African government currently faces the dual problems of c...

Published: 23 April 2013

Working Paper

Assessing the Economic Value of El Niñobased seasonal climate forecasts for smallholder...

Drought constitutes the most dominant source of food insecurity in ...

Published: 26 September 2012

Working Paper

Adaptation to climate change by smallholder farmers in Tanzania

In Sub-Saharan Africa, climate change is set to hit the agricultura...

Published: 26 September 2012

Working Paper

Effects of climatic conditions and agro-ecological settings on the productive efficienc...

This study argues that the adaptation measures farmers take to redu...

Published: 23 September 2012

Working Paper

Climate Change and Southern Africa

Wits Business School, ERSA and The National Treasury cordially invi...

Published: 27 September 2010

Workshop

Transhumant Pastoralism, Climate Change and Conﬂict in Africa

We consider the effects of climate change on seasonally migrant pop...

Published: 1 January 1970

Working Paper