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Keyword: Natural Resources Management

Why and how to measure the contribution of South Africa’s ocean economy

This paper articulates why it is important to measure the contribut...

Odwa Mtati, Stephen G. Hosking

Working Paper

Prenatal health and weather-related shocks under social safety net policy in Kenya

Exposure to weather shocks around the time of birth has been shown ...

Djiby R. Thiam, Silas Ongudi

Working Paper

Forest commons, vertical integration and smallholder’s saving and investment responses:...

As the result of prohibitively high transaction costs, smallholder ...

Dambala Gelo

Working Paper

The political economy of palm oil expansion and deforestation in Indonesia

This paper studies the interactions between political and economic ...

Nunung Nuryartono, Krisztina Kis-Katosz, Elías Cisnerosy

Working Paper

Understanding the drivers of subsistence poaching in the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Co...

While subsistence poaching is a large threat to wildlife conservati...

Herbert Ntuli, Edwin Muchapondwa, Amanda Linell, Aksel Sundström, Sverker C. Jagers, Martin Sjöstedt

Working Paper

Aggregate and sectoral public-private remuneration patterns in South Africa

This paper investigates the aggregate and sectoral public-private r...

Sihle Nomdebevana, Andreas Wörgötter

Working Paper

The origin of extractive states in Africa: The case of the British Cape Colony, 1834-1909

The majority of African states continue to be regarded as extractiv...

Johan Fourie, Abel Gwaindepi

Working Paper

Rural Electrification policy: The potential in micro hydro electricity

Developing countries particularly those within the Sub-Saharan Afri...

Mary Karumba, Edwin Muchapondwa

Policy Brief

Are South African consumers arm-chair environmentalists? Implications for renewable energy

In terms of global warming, coal is the worst offender, as it is a ...

Johane Dikgang, Nomsa P. Nkosi

Policy Brief

Effects of wildlife resources on community welfare: Income, poverty and inequality

This paper demonstrates the importance of wildlife in the portfolio...

Edwin Muchapondwa, Herbert Ntuli

Working Paper

Gender Differences in Climate Change Risk, Food Security and Adaptation: A Study of Rur...

Climate and weather variability in sub-Saharan Africa disproportion...

M. Collinson, Wayne Twine, Martine Visser, L. Hunter, Byela Tibesigwa

Working Paper

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

Working Paper

Investigating the Sensitivity of Household Food Security to Agriculture-related Shocks ...

Resource-poor rural South Africa is characterised by high human den...

Wayne Twine, Martine Visser, Byela Tibesigwa

Working Paper

Water Taxation and the Double Dividend Hypothesis

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

Nicholas Kilimani

Working Paper

The Experience of Private Investment in the South African Water Sector: The Mbombela Co...

South Africa is a water-stressed country that over a protracted per...

Sugen Chetty, John M. Luiz

Working Paper

Do the Poor Benefit from Devolution Policies? Evidences from Quantile Treatment Effect ...

Existing literature have rarely evaluated distributive effect of Jo...

Steven F. Koch, Edwin Muchapondwa, Dambala Gelo

Working Paper

Monetary Policy Response to Foreign Aid in an Estimated DSGE Model of Malawi

This paper estimates a Bayesian Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibr...

Manoel Bittencourt, Chance Mwabutwa, Nicola Viegi

Working Paper

International benchmarking of South Africa’s infrastructure performance

Policy Paper 07 The paper provides a first systematic, comprehensiv...

Johannes W. Fedderke, Željko Bogetic

Policy Paper

Contingent valuation of community forestry programs in Ethiopia: Observing preference a...

This study examines the potential for anomalous response behaviour ...

Steven F. Koch, Dambala Gelo

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Property rights, institutions and source of fuel wood in rural Ethiopia

This study examines the relationship between property rights, defin...

Steven F. Koch, Abebe Beyene

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

Is Water Shedding Next?

South Africa is in the grip of an electricity crisis marked by a eu...

Jan H. van Heerden, James N. Blignaut

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

Can local communities in Zimbabwe be trusted with wildlife management?: Evidence from c...

If local communities living adjacent to the elephant see it as a bu...

Gunmar Köhlin, Fredrik Carlsson, Edwin Muchapondwa

Working Paper

South Africa can reduce its crude oil import risk

Despite its small size and limited quantities of oil reserves, Sout...

Krish Chetty, Njeri Wabiri, Hammed Amusa

Policy Brief