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Climate change and economic growth in sub-Sahara Africa: A nonparametric evidence

Climate change has been classed as the greatest and urgent global i...

George Adu, Paul Alagidede

Working Paper

Profiling Sectoral Risks of Foreign Direct Investment in Africa

Despite Africa’s exceptional FDI performance during the past decade...

Zahné Coetzee, Henri Bezuidenhout, Carike Claassen

Working Paper

Climate, geography and African economic history

Africa’s ‘bad’ geographic and environmental features have long been...

ERSA

Workshop

CO2 Emissions, Energy Consumption, Income and Foreign Trade: A South African Perspective

The effect of trade liberalisation on environmental conditions has ...

Marcel Kohler

Working Paper

Assessing the Economic Value of El Niñobased seasonal climate forecasts for smallholder...

Drought constitutes the most dominant source of food insecurity in ...

Ephias M. Makaudze

Working Paper

Adaptation to climate change by smallholder farmers in Tanzania

In Sub-Saharan Africa, climate change is set to hit the agricultura...

Edwin Muchapondwa, Coretha Komba

Working Paper

Electricity Intensities of the OECD and South Africa: A Comparison

Improving a country’s electricity efficiency is considered one of t...

Roula Inglesi-Lotz, James N. Blignaut

Working Paper

A Theoretically Defensible Measure of Risk: Using Financial Market Data from a Middle I...

While economic theory assumes that risk is of central importance in...

Johannes W. Fedderke, Neryvia Pillay Bell

Working Paper

Climate Change and Southern Africa

Wits Business School, ERSA and The National Treasury cordially invi...

Wits Business School, National Treasury, ERSA

Workshop

Deriving a theoretically defensible measure of risk

According to economic theory, risk is a central consideration in fi...

Johannes W. Fedderke, Neryvia Pillay Bell

Policy Brief