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Inflating our troubles: South Africa’s economic performance and the exchange rate

Policy Paper 22 South Africa’s export performance has been disappoi...

Marina Marinkov, David Fowkes, Christopher Loewald

Policy Paper

The Disintegrating Force of Rationalism on Economics: What it means for Islamic Economics

In the last of this three-part study, the impact of the two dominan...

Abdulkader C. Mahomedy

Working Paper

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

On the Causal Links between the Stock Market and the Economy of Hong Kong

There is a bulk of literature that identifies the major economic dr...

Bernard N. Iyke, Sin-Yu Ho

Working Paper

Nowcasting Real GDP growth in South Africa

This paper uses nowcasting to forecast real GDP growth in South Afr...

Elmarie Nel, Franz Ruch, Alain Kabundi

Policy Brief

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

What explains the recent growth performance in Sub-Saharan Africa? Results from a Bayes...

This paper empirically identifies the main driving forces behind th...

Beatrice D. Simo-Kengne

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Climate, Technological Change and Economic Growth

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

Paul Alagidede, George Adu

Policy Brief

Conflict, Economic Growth and Spillover Effects in Africa

While there is a large empirical literature on the determinants of ...

John P. Dunne, Nan Tian

Working Paper

Accounting for Productivity Growth: Schumpeterian versus Semi-Endogenous Explanations

In this paper we analyze whether empirical evidence across a range ...

Yang Liu, Johannes W. Fedderke

Policy Brief

Accounting for Productivity Growth: Schumpeterian versus Semi-Endogenous Explanantions

This paper examines the nature and sources of productivity growth i...

Yang Liu, Johannes W. Fedderke

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

Growth (and segregation) by rail: How the railways shaped Colonial South Africa

The railway played a large part in late nineteenth century and earl...

Johan Fourie, Alfonso Herranz-Loncan

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What we talk about when we talk about saving: Concepts and measures of household saving...

South African household savings rates have been declining steadily ...

Anna Orthofer

Working Paper

The Impact of Political Competition on Economic Growth: Evidence from Municipalities in...

This paper examines the impact of political competition on economic...

Nonso Obikili

Policy Brief

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

A categorisation and evaluation of rhino management policies

Rhino populations are at a critical level and new approaches are ne...

James N. Blignaut, Douglas J. Crookes

Working Paper

Institutionalisation of Derivatives Trading and Economic Growth: Evidence from South Af...

The purpose of this paper is to foresee the likely developmental im...

Audrey N. Bekale, Erika Botha, Cobus Vermeulen

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Mechanism between mining sector and economic growth in Zimbabwe, is it a resource curse?

The study investigates the role of mineral resources in economic de...

Nyasha Mahonye, Leonard Mandishara

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The social and political case for promoting economic growth and broad-based innovation ...

Popular protest in South Africa has increased sharply in recent yea...

Biniam E. Bedasso

Policy Brief

Monetary Integration in SADC: Assessment of Policy Coordination and Real Effective Exch...

This paper evaluates the strength of policy coordination in Souther...

Mulatu F. Zerihun, Marthinus C. Breitenbach, Francis M. Kemegue

Working Paper

Financial Development and the Diffusion of Technologies under Uncertainty in Africa

Using novel measures of technology diffusion and adoption developed...

Zivanemoyo Chinzara

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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

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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

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The Fundamental Determinants of Competitiveness in African Countries

This study investigates the drivers of competitiveness in African e...

Olumide Taiwo, Julius A. Agbor

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Water Taxation and the Double Dividend Hypothesis

The double dividend hypothesis contends that environmental taxes ha...

Nicholas Kilimani

Working Paper

An examination of sub-national growth in Nigeria: 1999 - 2012

I use satellite imagery on night time lights to measure growth acro...

Nonso Obikili

Working Paper

Disaggregated Credit Extension and Financial Distress in South Africa

This study analyses the relationship between disaggregated credit e...

Leroi Raputsoane

Working Paper

Construction of a Social Accounting Matrix for Chad

The use of Applied General Equilibrium (AGE) models to contribute t...

David S. Garber

Working Paper

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...

David Garber

Policy Brief

Timing a Hedge Decision: The Development of a Composite Technical Indicator for White M...

South African white maize is considered to be significantly more vo...

Chris van Heerden, Frans Dreyer, Susari Geldenhuys

Working Paper

A Post-Crisis Reading of the 'Role of Monetary Policy'

In 1967 Milton Friedman delivered “The Role of Monetary Policy’ as ...

Stan Du Plessis

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Analyzing the Theoretical and Empirical Foundations of Public Debt Dynamics in Zimbabwe

This paper provides an analysis of the theoretical and empirical fo...

Pierre Le Roux, Nebson Mupunga

Working Paper

Savings and economic growth: A historical analysis of the relationship between savings ...

The sub-optimal savings propensity in South Africa the past three d...

John W. M. Mwamba, Lorraine Greyling, Grietjie Verhoef

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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

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Does Education Promote Stable Property Rights?

This paper sets out to establish an empirical link between educatio...

Biniam E. Bedasso

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