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In memoriam Charles Simkins

Economist had a no-nonsense approach to analysing complicated pract...

Published: 15 December 2022

Politics Web

Can a universal basic income contribute to breaking structural poverty in South Africa?...

Occasional Paper 02 This annotated bibliography provides a non-exha...

Published: 12 September 2022

Occasional Paper

Can a universal basic income contribute to breaking structural poverty in South Africa?

Discussion Document 03 Much of the debate about the introduction of...

Published: 10 September 2022

Discussion Document

Universal Basic Income: How the experience in developing countries can inform the discu...

Discussion Document 01 This paper considers how the COVID-19 pandem...

Published: 30 August 2022

Discussion Document

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

Gilad Isaacs: Study’s conclusion that a BIG is more pain than gain is not credible

Business Unity SA (Busa), with the support of Business Leadership S...

Published: 10 August 2022

Business Day

Small rise in employment is nothing to celebrate

Consensus is emerging that unemployment, inequality and poverty req...

Published: 2 June 2022

Business Day

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