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What do we expect from the MTBPS?

Prior to last year’s Medium Term Budget Policy Statement (MTBPS) th...

Margaux Giannaros, Isaah Mhlanga

Podcast

Possible Welfare Benefits of a Basic Income Support: Evidence from a benefit incidence ...

Working Paper 886 The study investigates the potential welfare effe...

Nicky Nicholls, Kehinde O. Omotoso, Eleni Yitbarek, Ramos Mabugu, Margaret Chitiga-Mabugu, Carolyn Chisadza

Working Paper

A systematic and historical review of basic income support programs in middle-income co...

Discussion Document 06 As one of the most structurally unequal coun...

Ermias G. Weldesenbet, Biniam E. Bedasso

Discussion Document

Request for proposals: Economics of Basic Income Support

In response to the government’s proposal that the Social Relief of ...

ERSA

Skills Development

Call for Work: Request for proposals: Economics of Basic Income Support

In response to the government’s proposal that the Social Relief of ...

Call for Work

Does the uptake of multiple climate smart agriculture practices enhance household savin...

Climate change and variability poses a significant hindrance on agr...

Herbert Ntuli, Gibson Mudiriza, Edwin Muchapondwa, Boscow Okumu, Alfred K. Mukong

Working Paper

Part 3: International perspectives and South Africa’s trade policy

The discussion is based on two papers: and Understanding South Afr...

Sherman Robinson, Montford Mlachila, Matthew Simmonds, Marianne Matthee, Matthew Stern

Dialogue

Human capital and the timing of the first birth

This paper constructs and partially characterizes the solution of a...

Jesse Naidoo

Working Paper

Income convergence in Southern Africa: A non-linear time-varying coefficients framework

This article investigated income per capita convergence in the Sout...

Ntokozo P. Nzimande

Working Paper

Understanding the behaviour of house prices and household income per capita in South Af...

Homeownership by the lower and middle-income households is crucial ...

Pieter Opperman, Anthanasius F. Tita

Working Paper

Impact of technological progress on carbon emissions in different country income groups

This study examines the complex relationship between carbon emissio...

Roula Inglesi-Lotz, Chris B. Milindi

Working Paper

The effectiveness of counter-cyclical loan-to-value regulations: generic versus sector-...

This paper considers the implication of the counter-cyclical loan-t...

Guangling Liu

Working Paper

The effects of technology intensity in manufacturing on CO2 emissions: Evidence from de...

Industrialisation is recognised as important for developing countri...

Fiona Tregenna, Elvis K. Avenyo

Working Paper

Measuring energy poverty in South Africa based on household required energy consumption

Energy poverty is a major concern in most of developing countries w...

Steven F. Koch, Yuxiang Yeú

Working Paper

Impact of Social Transfers on Depressive Symptoms: Evidence from the South African Old ...

We study the effect of income receipt in form of Old age pension (...

Joseph Ajefu, Adeola Oyenubi

Working Paper

Group identity in fairness decisions: discrimination or inequality aversion?

Policy Paper 24 This paper investigates issues of decision time and...

Eleni Yitbarek, Carolyn Chisadza, Nicky Nicholls

Policy Paper

Does Child Support Grant incentivise childbirth in South Africa?

We consider the perverse incentive that can be created for poor hou...

Umakrishnan Kollamparambil, Adeola Oyenubi

Working Paper

Does household net financial wealth explain the asymmetric reaction of household consum...

Ndou et al (2019) showed that, in absolute terms, the decline in ho...

Eliphas Ndou

Working Paper

Part 4: Towards a fiscal policy that supports economic recovery while achieving sustain...

Drawing on the discussions in the previous 3 sessions, session 4 wi...

Matthew Simmonds, Ricardo Hausmann, Laurence Harris, Johannes W. Fedderke, Federico Sturzenegger, Abebe Selassie

Dialogue

Part 3: The role of fiscal policy in the post-Corona economic recovery

South Africa has a comparably large government sector, and the choi...

Christopher Loewald, Matthew Simmonds, Xavier Debrun, Mamokete Lijane, Gilad Isaacs, Federico Sturzenegger, Andrew Donaldson

Dialogue

The impacts of unconditional cash transfers on schooling in adolescence and young adult...

I study an expansion of a South African social grant program that p...

Neryvia Pillay Bell

Working Paper

The Effect of Tobacco and Alcohol Control Policies on Household Spending Patterns in Ke...

This paper examines the effect of tobacco and alcohol control polic...

Abel O. Nyagwachi, Grieve Chelwa, Corné van Walbeek

Working Paper

Dr Neryvia Pillay Bell on the Fiscal response to the COVID-19 pandemic in South Africa:...

In this podcast Dr Neryvia Pillay Bell, a Policy Associate at ERSA ...

Margaux Giannaros, Neryvia Pillay Bell

Podcast

Prof. Johanne Fedderke on the differential impact of the Coronavirus as of end of March...

Professor Johannes W. Fedderke, the Director of ERSA speaks to our ...

Margaux Giannaros, Johannes W. Fedderke

Podcast

Inequality in South Africa: what does a composite index of wellbeing reveal?

Policymakers need better information regarding wellbeing inequality...

Talita Dalton-Greyling, Stephanié Rossouw

Working Paper

The effectiveness of counter-cyclical loan-to-value regulations: generic versus sector-...

This paper considers the implications of the counter-cyclical loan-...

Thabang Molisey, Guangling Liu

Working Paper

Migration, Income Pooling and Food Deprivation in Zimbabwe

Income pooling in the context of geographically stretched household...

Gift Dafuleya

Working Paper

Who benefits from being self-employed in urban Ghana

This paper explores the earnings gap between the self-employed and ...

Adeola Oyenubi

Working Paper

Who benefits from being self-employed in urban Ghana?

The income gap between the self-employed and wage earners is of int...

Adeola Oyenubi

Policy Brief

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

Who benefits from South African Child Support Grant: The role of gender and birthweight

Stunting (low height-for-age) is known to be a good proxy for a chi...

Adeola Oyenubi

Working Paper

Access to micro and informal loans: evaluating the impact on the quality of life of poo...

Since the early 1980s, many governments have investigated the possi...

Talita Dalton-Greyling

Policy Brief

Quality of life: validation of an instrument and analysis of relationships between dime...

Background The conventional approach to measuring quality of life w...

Talita Dalton-Greyling

Policy Brief

Who benefits from being self-employed in urban Ghana

This paper explores the earnings gap between the self-employed and ...

Adeola Oyenubi

Working Paper

Access to micro – and informal loans: evaluating the impact on the quality of life of p...

Background: Since the early 1980s, many governments have investigat...

Talita Dalton-Greyling, Stephanié Rossouw

Working Paper

Quality of life: Validation of an instrument and analysis of relationships between domains

Quality of life (QoL) is now widely recognised as a multidimensiona...

Talita Dalton-Greyling, Fiona Tregenna

Working Paper