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Gracelin Baskaran on how environmental policies may impact South African trade

One month after COP28, we record our first podcast of 2024. As the ...

Podcast

Competition policy and regulation in digital markets

A 1-day ERSA workshop took place on 30th September 2022 in Stellen...

Workshop

Structural Constraints on the Economcy, Growth and Political Economy Webinar

Monday 14 February 2022, Pascual Restrepo (Boston University), R...

Webinar

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...

Podcast

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

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

Podcast

Part 4: Building back for a sustainable future

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

Dialogue

Part 2: Recovery policies and labour utilization

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

Dialogue

Prof Nicola Viegi on evaluating the near future of monetary policy in SA: Sailing into ...

Only three times in the last century has monetary policy been re-ev...

Podcast

Part 1: Monetary policy and Covid-19 in South Africa

The discussion is based on Sailing into the Wind: evaluating the (n...

Dialogue

Isaah Mhlanga on permanent spending habits: what to listen for while politicians campaign

It is not often that a country has an opportunity to allocate windf...

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...

Podcast

CANCELLED: 'Structural Constraints on the Economy, Growth and Political Economy'

***Keynote Speaker*** Kenneth Scheve (Stanford) The second Economi...

Submit paper: 21 February 2020

Workshop

Annual Economic Research Southern Africa Workshop on ‘Structural Constraints on the Eco...

Keynote Speakers: Axel Dreher from Heidelberg University James Rob...

Workshop

Nonlinearities in Financial Development–Economic Growth Nexus: Evidence from sub–Sahara...

The impact of financial development on economic growth has received...

Policy Brief

Shaping macroeconomic outcomes

Policy Paper 23 By early 2016, financial market participants had be...

Policy Paper

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

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

Working Paper

Politics, Finance and Growth

The University of Pretoria, in conjunction with the South African R...

Workshop

Third Annual Financial Economics Workshop

Keynote Speaker: Atif Mian (Princeton University) Following the fir...

Workshop

Optimal Public Investment, Growth, and Consumption: Fresh Evidence from African Countries

This paper develops a model positing a nonlinear relationship betwe...

Working Paper

Second Annual Financial Economics Workshop

Following the first workshop on financial economics in Cape Town in...

Workshop

Inflation and Economic Growth: Evidence from the Southern African Development Countries

In this paper we investigate the role of inflation rates in determi...

Working Paper

Inflation and Economic Growth in the SADC: Some Panel Time-Series Evidence

In this paper we investigate the role of inflation rates in determi...

Working Paper

Nominal GDP Targeting and the Monetary Policy Framework

A nominal income target may provide credibility to a commitment to ...

Working Paper

Sources of Subsectoral Growth in South Africa

While South Africa’s growth performance has improved somewhat in re...

Working Paper

First Annual Financial Economics Workshop: Financial Economics and the Nexus of Growth,...

The recent financial crisis has challenged our understanding of the...

Workshop

Economic Growth and Inequality: Evidence from the Young Democracies of South America

We investigate in this paper whether income growth has played any r...

Working Paper

Achieving Higher Growth and Employment: Policy options for South Africa

Using a dynamic computable general equilibrium model, the paper pro...

Working Paper

What are the Distributional Implications of Halving Poverty in South Africa when Growth...

The South African government has set a target of halving poverty by...

Working Paper

A regional perspective on Aid and FDI in Southern Africa

The global trend for official development assistance continues to d...

Policy Brief

The role of human and social capital: Extending our understanding

Policy Paper (Interest) 11 Human capital, institutions and social c...

Policy Paper

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

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

Policy Paper

The contribution of growth in total factor productivity to growth in South Africa: 1970-97

Policy Paper (Interest) 16 This paper is concerned with revealing t...

Policy Paper

Transhumant Pastoralism, Climate Change and Conflict in Africa

We consider the effects of climate change on seasonally migrant pop...

Working Paper