Development Economics | Economic Research Southern Africa

Keyword: Development Economics

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

In memoriam Charles Simkins

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

Charles Simkins

Politics Web

Why SA isn’t getting the growth it needs

The Covid Project — a research project to assess SA’s economic pros...

Claire Bisseker

Business Live

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

Household debt and consumption dynamics: A non-developed world view following the ﬁnanc...

According to recent macroeconomic evidence (Bosch and Koch 2020b; F...

Matthew W. Clance, Steven F. Koch, Adél Bosch

Working Paper

Addressing low labour utilisation in South Africa

Policy Paper 27 South Africa’s stubbornly low labour utilisation ra...

Christopher Loewald, Konstantin Makrelov, Andreas Wörgötter

Policy Paper

Timothy Köhler on SA’s labour market: is a national lockdown as severe as we think?

It is just over a year since South Africa had to succumb to what wa...

Margaux Giannaros, Timothy Köhler

Podcast

Understanding the behaviour of house prices and household income per capita in South Af...

Homeownership by the lower and middle-income households is crucial ...

Pieter Opperman, Anthanasius F. Tita

Working Paper

The effect of colonial and pre-colonial institutions on contemporary education in Africa

This paper argues that contrary to previous findings, present-day e...

Matthew W. Clance, Leoné Walters, Carolyn Chisadza

Working Paper

Estimating a New Keynesian Wage Phillips Curve

This paper estimates a New Keynesian Wage Phillips Curve for South ...

Nicola Viegi, Vincent Dadam

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

Measuring energy poverty in South Africa based on household required energy consumption

Energy poverty is a major concern in most of developing countries w...

Steven F. Koch, Yuxiang Yeú

Working Paper

How Buoyant Is the South African Tax System? An ARDL Approach

This study aims to scrutinize the responsiveness of the South Afric...

Nyasha Mahonye, Baneng Naape

Working Paper

A Sequence to Reverse Poverty: Institutions, State Capacity and Human Empowerment

This paper explores the fundamental or deep causes of poverty persi...

Sansia Blackmore, Reneé van Eyden

Working Paper

Monetary policy and inequality

South Africa is one of the most unequal countries in the world and ...

Neryvia Pillay Bell

Policy Brief

Who benefits from being self-employed in urban Ghana?

The income gap between the self-employed and wage earners is of int...

Adeola Oyenubi

Policy Brief

Risk Preferences and the Impact of Credit and Insurance on Farm Technology Uptake

We use a series of credit and insurance simulation games to test th...

Martine Visser, Kerri Brick, Hafsah Jumare

Working Paper

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

Labour market impact of internal in-migration: A district level analysis of South Africa

Despite the lack of clarity in literature with regards to the quest...

Umakrishnan Kollamparambil

Working Paper

Impact of internal in- migration on income inequality in receiving areas: A district le...

The impact of internal migration on regional income inequality of t...

Umakrishnan Kollamparambil

Policy Brief

“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...

Kotie J. M. M. Viljoen, Catherina J. Schenck, Phillip F. Blaauw

Working Paper

Sometimes you don’t make enough money to buy food: An analysis of South African street ...

One of the aims of the National Development Plan (NDP) is the eradi...

Kotie J. M. M. Viljoen, Catherina J. Schenck, Phillip F. Blaauw

Policy Brief

Inflation, growth and employment in South Africa: Trends and trade-offs

It is often publicly contended that overly strict application of in...

Cobus Vermeulen

Working Paper

How do we explain the persistently high rate of unemployment in South Africa? Exploring...

Our research attempted to quantify the magnitude of shifts in indus...

Marthinus C. Breitenbach, Heinrich R. Bohlmann

Policy Brief

“I would rather have a decent job”: Barriers preventing street waste pickers from impro...

As a result of the high levels of unemployment in South Africa many...

Kotie J. M. M. Viljoen, Phillip F. Blaauw, Rinie Schenck

Working Paper

Effects of reducing tariffs in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC): A CGE analysis

In this paper, the effects of reducing tariffs are analysed through...

Jean L. Erero, Daniel D. Pambudi, Lumengo Bonga-Bonga

Working Paper

Land use in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)

This paper examines the effects of land use in the DRC through the ...

Bonga B. Lumengo, Jean L. Erero, Daniel D. Pambudi

Working Paper

A Sticky Information Phillips Curve for South Africa

Mankiw and Reis (2002) propose the Sticky Information Phillips Curv...

Monique Reid, Gideon Du Rand

Working Paper

Wage subsidy in the DRC: A CGE analysis

This paper analyses wage subsidies on lower-skilled formal workers ...

Jean L. Erero, Daniel D. Pambudi, Lumengo Bonga-Bonga

Working Paper

International Trade and Labour Demand Elasticities: Is there Any Empirical Evidence fro...

There are various pathways through which the impact of trade openne...

Abdulkader C. Mahomedy

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

Concentration Measures as an element in testing the structure-conduct-performance paradigm

The original structure-conduct-performance (SCP) paradigm, accordin...

Johann du Pisanie

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

Happy in the Informal Economy? A Case Study of Well-Being Among Day Labourers in South ...

Past research provided evidence of the negative effect that individ...

Phillip F. Blaauw, Rinie Schenck, Ilse Botha, Christie Schoeman

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

Income Inequality, Reciprocity and Public Good Provision: An Experimental Analysis Begg...

This paper analyses the impact of income inequality on public good ...

Andre Hofmeyr, Martine Visser, Justine Burns

Working Paper