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A review of the strategies adopted between 2015 and 2022 towards two South African loca...

Working Paper 885 This paper reviews combined local and national go...

Marius van der Merwe, Stephen G. Hosking

Working Paper

Dr Channing Arndt on Building back fairer from the Covid-19 Pandemic in South Africa

Post-pandemic, South Africa’s economy finds itself in a constrained...

Margaux Giannaros, Channing Arndt

Podcast

Isaah Mhlanga on a positive MTBPS: getting to know Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana

After our new Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana delivered his first...

Isaah Mhlanga

Podcast

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

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...

Timothy Köhler

Podcast

Isaah Mhlanga on SA’s Budget Speech: adopting a business-friendly approach

After the challenges raised by Covid-19 and the increasing risks co...

Isaah Mhlanga

Podcast

Isaah Mhlanga on SA Budget 2021: Good news from SA’s 2020 Monetary and Fiscal Policy De...

Joining ERSA’s host in this podcast is Isaah Mhlanga, a Chief Econo...

Isaah Mhlanga

Podcast

Dr Biniam Bedasso on managing Public Finances: where does a quarter of the IMF’s Capaci...

In this podcast, ERSA’s host speaks to Dr Biniam Bedasso about Publ...

Biniam E. Bedasso

Podcast

Prof Scott Baker on measuring economic policy uncertainty: yes, measuring uncertainty

Levels of uncertainty have existed throughout time yet measuring un...

Scott Baker

Podcast

Prof. Estian Calitz on Fiscal Sustainability in South Africa: what are the shortcomings...

Shortly after the Minister of Finance gave his Supplementary Budget...

Estian Calitz

Podcast

Contagion without deposit insurance: The South African small bank crisis of 2002/3

Following the failure of Saambou bank in February 2002, another sev...

Roy Havemann

Working Paper

Financial Statecraft: Government Choice of Debt Instruments

We explore the diversity of means by which governments borrow ̵...

Layna Mosely, Eric Arias, B. Peter Rosendorff

Working Paper

Young Democracies and Government Size: Evidence from South America

We investigate in this paper the hypothesis that when democracies a...

Manoel Bittencourt

Working Paper

Market Regulation and Agricultural development

Policy Paper (Interest) 10 Those analysts who favour deregulation i...

Policy Paper