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Shedding light on AGOA

This week, after much anticipation, the AGOA Forum was hosted in Na...

Gracelin Baskaran, Margaux Giannaros

Podcast

Tax effort and capacity in developing countries: Unravelling the impact of the informal...

Working paper 889 This study focuses on estimating the tax effort i...

Ezekiel Lengaram

Working Paper

Part 4: Building back for a sustainable future

The discussion is based on two papers: , by Channing Arndt, Robert ...

Witness Simbanegavi, Matthew Simmonds, IFPRI, GIZ, ERSA, Channing Arndt

Dialogue

Part 3: International perspectives and South Africa’s trade policy

The discussion is based on two papers: and Understanding South Afr...

Sherman Robinson, Montford Mlachila, Matthew Simmonds, Marianne Matthee, Matthew Stern

Dialogue

Part 2: Recovery policies and labour utilization

The discussion is based on two research papers: and Addressing low...

Matthew Simmonds, Witness Simbanegavi, Sherwin Gabriel, Romain A. Duval, Murray Leibbrandt, Andreas Wörgötter

Dialogue

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...

Matthew Simmonds, Ricardo Hausmann, Laurence Harris, Johannes W. Fedderke, Federico Sturzenegger, Abebe Selassie

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...

Christopher Loewald, Matthew Simmonds, Xavier Debrun, Mamokete Lijane, Gilad Isaacs, Federico Sturzenegger, Andrew Donaldson

Dialogue

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

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

Brian Kantor, Matthew Simmonds, Xavier Debrun, Tshepiso Moahloli, Owen Willcox, Mamokete Lijane, Lucio Castro, Ian Stuart

Dialogue

Part 1: Understanding the concept of "fiscal sustainability" in the post-Corona world

Debt sustainability is equivalent to government solvency and from a...

Tshepiso Moahloli, Owen Willcox, Ian Stuart, Mamokete Lijane, Brian Kantor, Xavier Debrun, Lucio Castro

Dialogue

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

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

Alain P. Bala

Policy Brief

Family-type Public Goods and Intra-Household Decision-Making by Co-Resident South Afric...

Intra-household decision-making is a fundamental development issue,...

Frederik Booysen, Sevias Guvuriro

Policy Brief

Teacher human capital, teacher effort and student achievements in Kenya

Although research generally shows that teachers matter for student ...

Justine Burns, Fredrick M. Wamalwa

Policy Brief

Black living standards in South Africa before democracy

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

Bokang Mpeta, Kris Inwood, Johan Fourie

Policy Brief

Spatial Externality, Openness and Financial Development in SADC: Beyond the Multilatera...

Economic variables tend to exhibit variation not only over time, bu...

Pierre Le Roux, Alex Bara, Gift Mugano

Policy Brief

7th Annual Meeting of the African Economic History Network: Innovation and the African ...

The African Economic History Network, in association with the Labor...

Laboratory for the Economics Africa’s Past, Harvard University’s Centre for African African Studies, ERSA, African Economic History Network

Workshop

Measurement and analysis of the evolution of institutions in Nigeria

“Institutions matter” has become a generally accepted premise in de...

Johannes W. Fedderke, Mare Sarr, David O. Fadiran

Working Paper

Path dependence and interdependence between institutions and development

Path dependence theory, within the institutions context, means that...

Mare Sarr, David Fadiran

Policy Brief

Foreign Firm Ownership and Productivity Spillovers in the Southern African Development ...

The study uses firm level data from the World Bank Enterprise Surve...

John P. Dunne, Nicholas Masiyandima

Working Paper

Emerging multinational corporations: A prominent player in the global economy

As emerging market multinational corporations (EMNCs) tend to remar...

André C. Jordaan, Mustafa Sakr

Policy Brief

Occidental Rationalism: Its Early Impact on the Foundations of Modern Science

Rationalist thought has had a deep and lasting impact on modern civ...

Abdulkader C. Mahomedy

Working Paper

Financial Liberalisation and Economic Growth in the SADC

Attaining high levels of economic growth and development has been o...

Pierre Le Roux, Clement Moyo

Policy Brief

Diagnosing Deep Roots of Development: Genetic, Disease and Environmental Factors

We examine the association between indicators of real GDP per capit...

Valerio Napolioni, Robert E. Klitgaard, Johannes W. Fedderke, James P. MacMurray

Working Paper

The Impact of the Slave Trade on Literacy in Africa: Evidence from the Colonial Era

Recent studies have highlighted the importance of Africa’s hi...

Nonso Obikili

Working Paper

The quantitative Cape: Notes from a new Histriography of the Dutch Cape Colony

The digitisation and transcription of rich archival sources and the...

Johan Fourie

Working Paper

Debt Relief under the HIPC Initiative: Why Some Countries Complete the Programme Faster...

The Highly Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) initiative has been one o...

William Akoto

Working Paper

Yet Another Look at the Modernisation Hypothesis: Evidence from South America

We investigate in this paper whether the exogenous version of the m...

Manoel Bittencourt

Working Paper

Institutional Quality and Debt Relief: A Political Economy Approach

Recent shifts in the global debt relief architecture has meant that...

William Akoto

Working Paper

The economics of apartheid

The Economics of Apartheid Apartheid remains a contentious issue. I...

ERSA

Workshop

Aftercare of inward foreign direct investment: A case study of South Africa

Attraction of new inward foreign direct investment (FDI) globally, ...

Ronald Mears, Benjamin Manasoe

Working Paper

A history with evidence: Income inequality in the Dutch Cape Colony

The arrival of European settlers at the Cape in 1652 marked the beg...

Johan Fourie, Dieter von Fintel

Working Paper

Impact of the Current Crisis on Development Thinking

Prof Bheki Sibiya, Director and Head of Wits Business School, cordi...

John Williamson

Workshop

Technology, human capital, growth and institutional development: Lessons from endogenou...

Policy Paper (Interest) 13 This paper provides a discursive review ...

Johannes W. Fedderke

Policy Paper

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

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

John M. Luiz

Policy Paper

The new partnership for African development: Africa’s response to its underdevelopment

Policy Paper (Interest) 22 The economic development gap been Africa...

John M. Luiz

Policy Paper