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African Economic History Network Meeting

The programme contains two keynotes and over twenty parallel sessio...

Published: 23 November 2023

Workshop

Call for Application: An ERSA Research Workshop: Longitudinal Data in African History

The study of African economic history has reached a tipping point. ...

Published: 22 June 2023

Call for Application

Monitoring South Africa’s metropolitan economies: A survey of the data landscape

Discussion Document 13 Disparities in data across different metropo...

Published: 22 May 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

Crime: A policy-oriented survey

Discussion Document 9 South Africa has a reputation for having high...

Published: 22 May 2023

Discussion Document

Can we shield South Africa from climate change?

The country could become an apocalyptic wasteland if it fails to ta...

Published: 10 March 2023

Business Live

Foresight Africa 2023: Presentation

Brookings Institution’s Flagship Foresight Africa 2023 was wr...

Published: 2 March 2023

Workshop Presentation

CVM3 Regional Workshop Presentation: Southern Africa

Global temperatures have already increased by 1.1°C relative to pre...

Published: 22 February 2023

Workshop Presentation

Foresight Africa 2023: A Southern African Perspective

Please join the Brookings Institution and Economics Research Southe...

Published: 14 February 2023

Dialogue

Climate Vulnerability of Southern Africa

Occasional Paper 03 Global temperatures have already increased by 1...

Published: 7 February 2023

Occasional Paper

Import tariff pass-through effect and the spatial distribution of domestic consumer go...

The study of import tariffs pass-through has been observed to be cr...

Published: 28 August 2022

Working Paper

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

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

Dr Matthew Stern on understanding South Africa’s trade policy and performance

An issue often overlooked in many discussions is that of exports an...

Published: 5 August 2021

Podcast

Part 3: International perspectives and South Africa’s trade policy

The discussion is based on two papers: Covid-19 and Lockdown Polici...

Published: 29 July 2021

Dialogue

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

Working Paper

Corporate taxation and firm-level investment in South Africa

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

Published: 15 June 2021

Working Paper

‘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

Working Paper

Financial development and income inequality: a nonlinear econometric analysis of 21 Afr...

A panel data analysis of financial inequality was conducted using t...

Published: 15 February 2021

Working Paper

The eﬀect of colonial and pre-colonial institutions on contemporary education in Africa

This paper argues that contrary to previous ﬁndings, present-day ed...

Published: 1 February 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

Dr Biniam Bedasso on immigration and political preferences in South Africa: how has vot...

During the past week the buzz word has been ‘voting’, given the nai...

Published: 13 November 2020

Podcast

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

The impact of AGOA on export flows from sub-Saharan Africa: A dynamic system GMM analysis

This study seeks to understand the relationship between the United ...

Published: 6 October 2020

Working Paper

Group identity in fairness decisions: discrimination or inequality aversion?

Policy Paper 24 This paper investigates issues of decision time and...

Published: 30 September 2020

Policy Paper

Emergent large traders in smallholder grain markets and their role in enhancing adoptio...

Pervasive threats of climate change and land degradation have compo...

Published: 10 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

Adapting Herzberg: Predicting attendees' satisfaction and intention to re-visit a festi...

This study adapts Herzberg’s two-factor theory to investigate...

Published: 3 October 2019

Working Paper

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

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

Adapting Herzberg: Predicting attendees’ satisfaction and intention to re-visit a local...

Globally, the tourism sector has been identified as crucial to atta...

Published: 17 September 2019

Policy Brief

Who benefits from being self-employed in urban Ghana?

The income gap between the self-employed and wage earners is of int...

Published: 21 May 2019

Policy Brief

Fiscal policy and adjustment in a foreign exchange constrained economy: Evidence from M...

Most of the recent literature analysing the adjustments of macroeco...

Published: 5 April 2019

Policy Brief

Market Potential, Agglomeration Effects and the Location of French Firms in Africa

This paper informs the debate on the existence of agglomeration eff...

Published: 12 March 2019

Working Paper

Motivating teachers in rural Zambia using a monetary incentive

Like many developing countries, the achievement gap between rural a...

Published: 5 March 2019

Policy Brief