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What do we expect from the MTBPS?

Prior to last year’s Medium Term Budget Policy Statement (MTBPS) th...

Margaux Giannaros, Isaah Mhlanga

Podcast

Modelling required energy consumption with equivalence

Working Paper 809 This study proposes an equivalence scale model fo...

Steven F. Koch, Yuxiang Ye, Jiangfeng Zhang

Journal Publication

Phases of higher education, tuition grants, and equity-efficiency tradeoff

We study how taxes and alternative higher education subsidies affec...

Yoseph Y. Getachew

Working Paper

Relationship between education and households’ electricity-saving behaviour in South Af...

This paper investigates the relationship between the education leve...

Kabeya C. Mulamba

Working Paper

Time consistency and economic growth: A case study of South African macroeconomic policy

The numerous diagnostic studies and policy recommendations that exi...

Konstantin Makrelov, David Faulkner, Christopher Loewald

Working Paper

The time-varying elasticity of South African electricity demand: 1980–2018

This study estimates the price and income elasticity coefficients o...

Kabelo Masike, Cobus Vermeulen

Working Paper

Optimal Targeted Lockdowns in a Multi-Group SIR Model

We study targeted lockdowns in a multi-group SIR model where infect...

Michael D. Whinston, Victor Chernozhukovz, Iván Werning, Daron Acemoglu

Working Paper

The relationship between renewable energy and retail electricity prices: Panel evidence...

The centrality of electricity to everyday life is indisputable, and...

George A. Thopil, Anneri M. Oosthuizen, Roula Inglesi-Lotz

Policy Brief

The household effects of very large electricity tariff hikes in Zambia

This paper simulates the real household expenditure effects of elec...

Akabondo Kabechani, Mashekwa Maboshe, Grieve Chelwa

Policy Brief

"The Power of Nudging: Using Feedback, Competition and Responsibility Assignment to Sav...

We use behavioural insights to design nudges leveraging social comp...

Martine Visser, Rebecca A. Klege, Matthew Darling, Saugato Datta

Working Paper

South African attitudes about nuclear power: The case of the nuclear energy expansion p...

Excessive use of fossil fuels is widely acknowledged as one of the ...

Nomsa P. Nkosi, Johane Dikgang

Policy Brief

Unveiling the Energy Saving Role of Banking Performance in Sub-Sahara Africa

Using a two-step system generalized method of moment (GMM) techniqu...

Rebecca A. Klege, ‪Franklin Amuakwa-Mensah, Philip K. Adom, ‪Edmond Hagan, Anthony Amoah

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

Will Technological Change Save the World? The Rebound Effect in International Transfer...

Technological change and its transfer to developing countries is of...

Tim Swanson, Mare Sarr

Policy Brief

Exploring the nexus of electricity supply and economic growth in South Africa

This paper investigates the causal relationship between electricity...

Pierre Le Roux, Gift Mugano, Hlalefang Khobai

Working Paper

Social Rate of Return to R&D on Various Energy Technologies: Where should We Invest...

The severity of investment in Research and Development (R&D) in...

Roula Inglesi-Lotz

Working Paper

Structural Breaks in Renewable Energy in South Africa: A Bai & Perron Test Approach

South Africa has been struggling to cope with its energy demand. In...

Jaco P. Weideman, Roula Inglesi-Lotz

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

An Economy-Wide Evaluation of New Power Generation in South Africa: The Case of Kusile ...

The South African economy has suffered over the past decade due to ...

Heinrich R. Bohlmann, Roula Inglesi-Lotz, Jessika A. Bohlmann

Working Paper

Differential Electricity Pricing and Energy Efficiency in South Africa

By international standards the economy of South Africa is extremely...

Marcel Kohler

Working Paper

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

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

South Africa’s Electricity Consumption: A Sectoral Decomposition Analysis

South Africa’s electricity consumption has increased sharply ...

Roula Inglesi-Lotz, James N. Blignaut

Working Paper

Analysing Alternative Policy Response to High Oil Prices, Using an Energy Integrated CG...

An energy-focused integrated CGE microsimulation approach is used t...

Ismail Fofana, Ramos Mabugu, Margaret Chitiga-Mabugu

Working Paper

Application of a multi-criteria integrated portfolio model for quantifying South Africa...

The availability of secure energy resources at sustainable quantiti...

Hammed Amusa, Krish Chetty, Njeri Wabiri

Working Paper

How an electricity tax will affect the South African economy

An electricity tax imposed at the point of production in South Afri...

Margaret Chitiga-Mabugu, Reyno Seymore, Jan H. van Heerden, James N. Blignaut, Philip D. Adams

Policy Brief