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3rd University of Pretoria-Stellenbosch PhD Workshop

Background and Objective: The Third University of Pretoria-Stellenb...

Submit paper: 1 June 2023

Published: 9 May 2023

Workshop

Characteristics of the South African retirement fund industry

Using administrative data, we examine three characteristics of the ...

Published: 11 September 2022

Working Paper

Structural Constraints on the Economcy, Growth and Political Economy Webinar

Monday 14 February 2022, Pascual Restrepo (Boston University), R...

Published: 8 February 2022

Webinar

Isaah Mhlanga on a positive MTBPS: getting to know Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana

After our new Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana delivered his first...

Published: 12 November 2021

Podcast

Part 4: Towards a fiscal policy that supports economic recovery while achieving sustain...

Drawing on the discussions in the previous 3 sessions, session 4 wi...

Published: 7 September 2020

Dialogue

Part 3: The role of fiscal policy in the post-Corona economic recovery

South Africa has a comparably large government sector, and the choi...

Published: 28 August 2020

Dialogue

Part 2: Financing the budget in the post-Corona world

Matthew delves into what financing the budget deficit in the post-C...

Published: 26 August 2020

Dialogue

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

CANCELLED: 'Structural Constraints on the Economy, Growth and Political Economy'

***Keynote Speaker*** Kenneth Scheve (Stanford) The second Economi...

Submit paper: 21 February 2020

Published: 26 November 2019

Workshop

Annual Economic Research Southern Africa Workshop on ‘Structural Constraints on the Eco...

Keynote Speakers: Axel Dreher from Heidelberg University James Rob...

Published: 16 July 2019

Workshop

Unfulfilled expectations and the emergence of the EFF

Populism in politics is not a new phenomenon. It has been present f...

Published: 10 July 2018

Policy Brief

Evolution and measurement of formal institutions in Cote D’Ivoire

This study analyzes the evolution of institutions in Côte d’Ivoire ...

Published: 23 May 2018

Working Paper

The measurement of institutions and instability in Democratic Republic of Congo, 1880-2010

This paper introduces a new database for Property Rights, Political...

Published: 24 April 2018

Policy Brief

Unfulfilled Expectations and Populist Politics: Examining the Emergence of the EFF in S...

The last decade has seen the resurgence of populism with South Afri...

Published: 3 January 2018

Working Paper

Evolution of institutions in Ghana and implications for economic growth

This report discusses the evolution of institutions and compares th...

Published: 8 September 2017

Working Paper

The impact of multinational enterprises on public governance institutions in areas of l...

We explore the interaction between Multinational Enterprises (MNEs)...

Published: 16 August 2017

Policy Brief

Measuring institutions during and after colonisation in Senegal (1819-2010)

Most of the widely used indicators of institutions have been critic...

Published: 2 August 2017

Working Paper

Human capital inequality and electoral outcomes in South Africa

This paper examines the nature and evolution of horizontal and vert...

Published: 6 February 2017

Working Paper

The Third ERSA Political Economy Workshop

Economic Research Southern Africa (ERSA) and the Institutions and P...

Published: 1 December 2015

Workshop

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

Programmatic Procurement: A Political Economy Review of the Transnet Freight Rail Compe...

Public procurement policies in a nation such as South Africa do not...

Published: 9 June 2015

Policy Brief

Does Massive Research Funding Work?: Lessons from South Africa

Does research output increase significantly when funding allocation...

Published: 14 April 2015

Policy Brief

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

Political Economy/Public Choice Economics

CALL FOR PAPERS The twentieth anniversary of the transition to demo...

Published: 25 March 2014

Call for Papers

The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade and Local Political Fragmentation in Africa

I examine the possibility that the trans-Atlantic slave trades infl...

Published: 14 January 2014

Working Paper

Alternative indices of political freedoms, property rights, and political instability f...

This paper presents new institutional measures for Zambia. Coverage...

Published: 23 September 2012

Working Paper

Democracy, Populism and Hyperinflation(s): Some Evidence from Latin America

We test for the populist view of inflation in Latin America between...

Published: 22 September 2012

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