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Assessing the Impact of Environmental Policies on South African Trade

Discussion Document 16 South Africa’s economy is highly reliant ...

Gracelin Baskaran

Discussion Document

Gracelin Baskaran on how environmental policies may impact South African trade

One month after COP28, we record our first podcast of 2024. As the ...

Margaux Giannaros, Gracelin Baskaran

Podcast

Can we shield South Africa from climate change?

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

Claire Bisseker

Business Live

Foresight Africa 2023: Presentation

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

Aloysius Uche Ordu

Workshop Presentation

CVM3 Regional Workshop Presentation: Southern Africa

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

Brent Cloete

Workshop Presentation

Foresight Africa 2023: A Southern African Perspective

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

Haroon Bhorat, Matthew Simmonds, Mamokete Lijane, Will Pearson, Aloysius Uche Ordu, Gracelin Baskaran

Dialogue

Climate Vulnerability of Southern Africa

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

Brent Cloete

Occasional Paper

CVM3 Regional Workshop: South Africa

As a regional partner of the Climate Vulnerable Forum (CVF) and Vul...

Theresa Mazarire, Timothy Thomas, Gracelin Baskaran, Brent Cloete, Matthew Simmonds

Webinar

Climate Vulnerability Monitor Key Points

The Climate Vulnerability Monitor is a unique global assessment at ...

Occasional Paper

Climate Vulnerability Monitor, 3rd Edition (CVM3)

The Climate Vulnerability Monitor is a unique global assessment at ...

Occasional 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...

Ermias G. Weldesenbet

Working Paper

Climate change and child health: A Nigerian perspective

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

Matthew W. Clance, Eleni Yitbarek, Eduard van der Merwe

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...

Yusuf Yakubua, Ojo Adelakun, Kazeem Isah, Elias Udeaja, Abdulkader C. Mahomedy

Working Paper

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

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

Herbert Ntuli, Gibson Mudiriza, Edwin Muchapondwa, Boscow Okumu, Alfred K. Mukong

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...

Tendai Gwatidzo, Witness Simbanegavi

Policy Paper

Dr Rossouw van Jaarsveld on developing a forex network model: how to highlight risk tra...

Have you ever wondered how sensitive the South African Rand is to s...

Margaux Giannaros, Rossouw van Jaarsveld

Podcast

Transhumant pastoralism, climate change and conflict in Africa

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

Eoin F. McGuirk, Nathan Nunn

Working Paper

The effects of technology intensity in manufacturing on CO2 emissions: Evidence from de...

Industrialisation is recognised as important for developing countri...

Fiona Tregenna, Elvis K. Avenyo

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...

Eliphas Ndou

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 ...

Djiby R. Thiam, Silas Ongudi

Working Paper

Prof. Johanne Fedderke on the differential impact of the Coronavirus as of end of March...

Professor Johannes W. Fedderke, the Director of ERSA speaks to our ...

Margaux Giannaros, Johannes W. Fedderke

Podcast

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

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

Thomas S. Jayne, Milu Muyanga, Martine Visser, Chalmers Mulwa

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...

Martine Visser, Chalmers Mulwa

Policy Brief

Electricity crisis and the effect of CO2 emissions on infrastructure-growth nexus in Su...

Sub Saharan Africa (SSA) has the greatest proportion of its populat...

Paul Alagidede, Chengete Chakamera

Policy Brief

Risk Preferences and the Poverty Trap: A Look at Technology Uptake amongst Smallholder ...

A number of studies suggest the risk preference of low income indiv...

Martine Visser, Kerri Brick, Hafsah Jumare

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...

Roula Inglesi-Lotz

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...

Elizabeth L. Roos, Nicholas Kilimani, Jan H. van Heerden, Heinrich R. Bohlmann

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...

Jackson Otieno, Edwin Muchapondwa

Policy Brief

Alternative Strategies for Public Debt Issuance in Zimbabwe: Is there a Trade off?

Introduction As part of managing a debt portfolio, debt managers fa...

Pierre Le Roux, Nebson Mupunga

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...

Jackson Otieno, Edwin Muchapondwa

Working Paper

Simulation Analysis of Alternative Strategies for Public Debt Issuance in Zimbabwe: Is ...

This paper discusses the simulation analysis of alternative public ...

Pierre Le Roux, Nebson Mupunga

Working Paper

Climate, Technological Change and Economic Growth

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

Paul Alagidede, George Adu

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...

Edwin Muchapondwa, Jackson Otieno

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...

M. Collinson, Wayne Twine, Martine Visser, L. Hunter, Byela Tibesigwa

Working Paper

Vulnerability to climatic variability: An assessment of drought prevalence on water res...

The volatile changes in climate are increasingly becoming a threat ...

Nicholas Kilimani

Working Paper

Investigating the Sensitivity of Household Food Security to Agriculture-related Shocks ...

Resource-poor rural South Africa is characterised by high human den...

Wayne Twine, Martine Visser, Byela Tibesigwa

Working Paper