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Possible Welfare Benefits of a Basic Income Support: Evidence from a benefit incidence ...

The study investigates the potential welfare effect of basic income...

Published: 5 September 2023

Working Paper

Presentation: Tariffs on basic foods: Evolution and impacts

Since 2010, various trade measures have been imposed to protect Sou...

Published: 20 July 2023

Workshop Presentation

Trade policy: Clipping South Africa’s wings

Since 2010, various trade measures have been imposed to protect Sou...

Event: 19 July 2023

Published: 27 June 2023

Seminar

South Africa’s future will be decided in our cities

Discussion Document 14 South Africa’s cities face multiple, overlap...

Published: 23 June 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

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

Impact of Social Transfers on Depressive Symptoms: Evidence from the South African Old ...

We study the effect of income receipt in form of Old age pension (...

Published: 20 October 2020

Working Paper

Does Child Support Grant incentivise childbirth in South Africa?

We consider the perverse incentive that can be created for poor hou...

Published: 30 September 2020

Working Paper

The household effects of very large electricity tariff hikes in Zambia

This paper simulates the real household expenditure effects of elec...

Published: 16 November 2018

Policy Brief

Female household headship and poverty in South Africa: an employment-based analysis

Female household headship is generally associated with higher pover...

Published: 7 August 2018

Working Paper

Black living standards in South Africa before democracy

The history of living standards in South Africa is a complex and in...

Published: 22 August 2017

Policy Brief

Effects of wildlife resources on community welfare: Income, poverty and inequality

This paper demonstrates the importance of wildlife in the portfolio...

Published: 27 September 2016

Working Paper

“Sometimes you don't make enough to buy food” - an analysis of South African street was...

In this paper we use income data of 873 street waste pickers in Sou...

Published: 28 April 2016

Working Paper

User Fee Abolition in South Africa: 1994 and 1996

In addition to birthing a new Democracy, 1994 was the beginning of ...

Published: 7 April 2015

Policy Brief

Recurrent Property Rates - The Search for a Fair Tax Conducive to Economic Growth

The conflict between the need to attend to acute poverty in the pre...

Published: 26 March 2014

Policy Brief

The Effect of Land Restitution on Poverty Reduction Among the Khomani San "Bushmen" in ...

This paper looks at the impact of land restitution involving the Kh...

Published: 10 June 2013

Working Paper

Poverty and headship in post-apartheid South Africa, 1997-2008

In this paper, I investigate the characteristics and poverty status...

Published: 26 September 2012

Working Paper

What are the Distributional Implications of Halving Poverty in South Africa when Growth...

The South African government has set a target of halving poverty by...

Published: 23 September 2012

Working Paper

Who would eat more with a food voucher programme in South Africa

What might seem like a good idea for satisfying the hungry is likel...

Published: 27 September 2009

Policy Brief

The private sector has a role to play in cash transfers programmes in Africa

Arguments for greater participation by the private sector in growth...

Published: 27 September 2009

Policy Brief

The wealth of some and the poverty of Sub-Saharan Africa

Policy Paper (Interest) 20 The economic growth performance of Sub S...

Published: 27 September 2001

Policy Paper