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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

Institutions and Other Determinants of Total Factor Productivity in Sub-Saharan Africa

The primacy of factors of production, such as labour and capital, o...

Olusegun A. Akanbi, David Fadiran

Working Paper

Human capital inequality and electoral outcomes

Inequality is a problem which has beset South Africa for a long tim...

Biniam E. Bedasso, Nonso Obikili

Policy Brief

Output Decomposition in the Presence of Input Quality Effects: A Stochastic Frontier Ap...

How do physical capital accumulation and Total Factor Productivity ...

Yasmina R. Limam, Stephen M. Miller, Giampaolo Garzarelli

Policy Brief

How Does Human Capital Shape the Social Contract?

This research brief presents the key findings and potential policy ...

Biniam E. Bedasso

Policy Brief

Social Capital and Human Capital in the Colonies: A Study of Cocoa Farmers in Western N...

I examine the relationship between social and human capital in colo...

Nonso Obikili

Working Paper

The Impact of the Slave Trade on Literacy in Africa: Evidence from the Colonial Era

Recent studies have highlighted the importance of Africa’s hi...

Nonso Obikili

Working Paper

Does Famine Matter For Aggregate Adolescent Human Capital Acquisition In Sub-Saharan Af...

To the extent that in utero and childhood malnutrition negatively a...

Julius A. Agbor, Gregory N. Price

Working Paper

Social capital as an engine of growth: Multisectoral modelling and implications

We propose a multisector endogenous growth model incorporating soci...

Youyou B. Bofota, Raouf Boucekkine, Alain P. Bala

Working Paper

From chimera to prospect: South African sources of and constraints on long-term growth,...

Policy Paper 01 The paper takes stock of South Africa’s past growth...

Johannes W. Fedderke

Policy Paper

Slave numeracy in the Cape Colony and comparative development in the eighteenth century

The lack of accurate measures of human capital formation often cons...

Jörg Baten, Johan Fourie

Working Paper

Human and social capital in Soweto in 1999 - preliminary report on field study: Backgro...

Policy Paper (Interest) 04 This paper summarises data that were gat...

Policy Paper

The role of human and social capital: Extending our understanding

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

Barbara Piazza-Georgi

Policy Paper

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

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

Johannes W. Fedderke

Policy Paper