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Delivering a difficult MTBPS

Running up to the elections next year, this was a difficult MTBPS t...

Margaux Giannaros, Isaah Mhlanga

Podcast

Call for Papers: An ERSA Research Workshop: The fiscal history of Sub-Saharan Africa

The public finances of African governments in the colonial and post...

Submit paper: 4 May 2015

Call for Papers

Can a universal basic income contribute to breaking structural poverty in South Africa?...

Occasional Paper 02 This annotated bibliography provides a non-exha...

Zimbali Mncube, Vuyisiwe Mahafu, Kelle Howson

Occasional Paper

Can a universal basic income contribute to breaking structural poverty in South Africa?

Discussion Document 03 Much of the debate about the introduction of...

Zimbali Mncube, Kelle Howson

Discussion Document

Universal Basic Income: How the experience in developing countries can inform the discu...

Discussion Document 01 This paper considers how the COVID-19 pandem...

Jéssica Gagete-Miranda

Discussion Document

Policy Bulletin 02: Reflections on Aspects of Public Finance and Fiscal Policy in South...

After the COVID-19 crisis is over, South Africa will face a fiscal ...

Estian Calitz

Policy Bulletin

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

Prof Johannes W. Fedderke on the South African – US sovereign bond spread: how is this ...

In this podcast, Prof. Johannes W. Fedderke, the Director of ERSA s...

Johannes W. Fedderke

Podcast

Nicola Viegi on the South African economic response to the Coronavirus: policies and pr...

Nicola Viegi, Deputy Director of ERSA, talks with Margaux G on the ...

Nicola Viegi

Podcast

Relating public and private remuneration

The study explores remuneration patterns in South Africa between 20...

Sihle Nomdebevana, Andreas Wörgötter

Policy Brief

Public Infrastructure Provision and Ethnic Favouritism: Evidence from South Africa

Does ethnic favouritism in administrative governments affect public...

Leoné Walters, Manoel Bittencourt, Carolyn Chisadza

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

Aggregate and sectoral public-private remuneration patterns in South Africa Research Brief

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

Andreas Wörgötter, Sihle Nomdebevana

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

Public-private sector wage differentials and household poverty among Black South Africans

This paper examines the extent and implications of the public-priva...

Malikah Jacobs

Working Paper

Alternative Strategies for Public Debt Issuance in Zimbabwe: Is there a Trade off?

Introduction As part of managing a debt portfolio, debt managers fa...

Pierre Le Roux, Nebson Mupunga

Policy Brief

Simulation Analysis of Alternative Strategies for Public Debt Issuance in Zimbabwe: Is ...

This paper discusses the simulation analysis of alternative public ...

Pierre Le Roux, Nebson Mupunga

Working Paper

An ERSA Research Workshop: The fiscal history of Sub-Saharan Africa

The public finances of African governments in the colonial and post...

Submit paper: 4 May 2015

ERSA

Workshop

Assessment of Monetary Union in SADC: Evidence from Cointegration and Panel Unit Root T...

In this paper we investigate the likelihood of a proposed monetary ...

Mulatu F. Zerihun, Marthinus C. Breitenbach, Francis M. Kemegue

Working Paper

Private Shareholding and Public Interest: An Analysis of an Eclectic Group of Central B...

Although the title seems to be a contradictio in terminis, this pap...

Jannie Rossouw

Working Paper

An economic model of the apartheid state

Rather than a rigid racial ideology, it is argued that South Africa...

Anton D. Lowenberg

Working Paper

Recurrent Property Rates - The Search for a Fair Tax Conducive to Economic Growth

The conflict between the need to attend to acute poverty in the pre...

David Garber

Policy Brief

Political Economy/Public Choice Economics

CALL FOR PAPERS The twentieth anniversary of the transition to demo...

ERSA

Call for Papers

Analyzing the Theoretical and Empirical Foundations of Public Debt Dynamics in Zimbabwe

This paper provides an analysis of the theoretical and empirical fo...

Pierre Le Roux, Nebson Mupunga

Working Paper

Anatomy of the Southern African Customs Union: Structure and Revenue Volatility

This paper studies the evolution of the Southern African Customs Un...

Harold P. E. Ngawala

Working Paper

Valuing User Preferences for Improvements in Public Nature Trails Around the Sundays Ri...

Many valuations have been made of changes to in-estuary attributes ...

Stephen G. Hosking, Mario du Preez, Deborah E. Lee

Working Paper

The state of Public-Private-Partnerships - the State and Public-Private-Partnerships

Policy Paper (Interest) 17 This paper outlines the debates concerni...

Harry Zarenda

Policy Paper