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Assessing the Impact of Environmental Policies on South African Trade

Discussion Document 16 South Africa’s economy is highly reliant ...

Gracelin Baskaran

Discussion Document

Request for Proposals: Back to inflation

Back to inflation In the wake of the global financial crisis (GFC),...

Call for Work

Delivering a difficult MTBPS

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

Margaux Giannaros, Isaah Mhlanga

Podcast

Request for Proposals: The role of cities as drivers of growth and employment

Background Urbanization in South Africa is expected to reach 80% by...

Call for Work

Presentation: The consumer price effects of specific trade policy restrictions in South...

Since 2010, various trade measures have been imposed to protect Sou...

Lawrence Edwards

Workshop Presentation

Presentation: Tariffs on basic foods: Evolution and impacts

Since 2010, various trade measures have been imposed to protect Sou...

Neva S. Makgetla

Workshop Presentation

A review of the strategies adopted between 2015 and 2022 towards two South African loca...

Working Paper 885 This paper reviews combined local and national go...

Marius van der Merwe, Stephen G. Hosking

Working Paper

Trade policy: Clipping South Africa’s wings

Since 2010, various trade measures have been imposed to protect Sou...

Event: 19 July 2023

Yash Ramkolowan, Sifiso Mahlaba, Lawrence Edwards, Matthew Stern, Neva S. Makgetla, Ayabonga Cawe

Seminar

Call for Papers: Monetary Economics and Macroeconomic Modelling Workshop

In the last few years there has been a large increase in work on ma...

Submit paper: 21 January 2011

Call for Papers

Call for Application: Training Workshop for Graduate Students: South African Economic H...

South African economic history is undergoing a mini-revolution. Ass...

Call for Application

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

Cities, productivity and Jobs in SA: Problems and potential

Discussion Document 12 Cities contribute to national prosperity bec...

Ivan Turok, Justin Visagie

Discussion Document

What luminosity data can and cannot reveal about South Africa’s urban economies

Discussion Document 10 As novel types of data are becoming availabl...

Takwanisa Machemedze

Discussion Document

Can we shield South Africa from climate change?

The country could become an apocalyptic wasteland if it fails to ta...

Claire Bisseker

Business Live

CVM3 Regional Workshop Presentation: Southern Africa

Global temperatures have already increased by 1.1°C relative to pre...

Brent Cloete

Workshop Presentation

Climate Vulnerability of Southern Africa

Occasional Paper 03 Global temperatures have already increased by 1...

Brent Cloete

Occasional Paper

Importance of employment programs for the youth in South Africa

Discussion Document 08 The present report reviews the literature on...

Michelle Pleace, Jéssica Gagete-Miranda

Discussion Document

CVM3 Regional Workshop: South Africa

As a regional partner of the Climate Vulnerable Forum (CVF) and Vul...

Theresa Mazarire, Timothy Thomas, Gracelin Baskaran, Brent Cloete, Matthew Simmonds

Webinar

In memoriam Charles Simkins

Economist had a no-nonsense approach to analysing complicated pract...

Politics Web

Fitch affirms SA's sub-investment grade, stable outlook

Bradley Kent

SABC News

Modelling required energy consumption with equivalence

This study proposes an equivalence scale model for required energy ...

Yuxiang Ye, Steven F. Koch, Jiangfeng Zhang

Working Paper

South Africa’s yield curve conundrum

Discussion Document 07 South Africa’s sovereign yield curve is one ...

Ruan Erasmus, Daan Steenkamp

Discussion Document

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

Local-Currency sovereign risk on South African government bonds

While local-currency bond markets have become a dominant source of ...

Mulalo Mamburu

Working Paper

Economic impacts of FATF recommendations and grey-listing announcement

Discussion Document 05 This Discussion Document summarises the rece...

Lucas A. Mariani, Jacobus Nel

Discussion Document

A basic income grant for South Africa

More money in poor people’s pockets, but at a heavy cost. Analyses ...

Roy Havemann, Hylton Hollander, Daan Steenkamp

Money Web

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

Characteristics of the South African retirement fund industry

Using administrative data, we examine three characteristics of the ...

Neryvia Pillay Bell, Johannes W. Fedderke

Working 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

Why SA isn’t getting the growth it needs

The Covid Project — a research project to assess SA’s economic pros...

Claire Bisseker

Business Live

COVID-19 and the South African Economy

Discussion Document 02 As South Africa looks to navigate itself out...

Matthew Stern, Christopher Loewald

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

The impact of mobile phones on change in employment status in South Africa

Research on the impact of mobile phones on change in employment sta...

Zubair Patel, Lukasz Grzybowski

Workshop Presentation

Analysis of gender gaps and differences in access to and use of digital technologies in...

Research on gender gaps and differences in access to and use of dig...

Workshop Presentation

Small rise in employment is nothing to celebrate

Consensus is emerging that unemployment, inequality and poverty req...

Isaah Mhlanga

Business Day

Tough choices will remain for SA when unearned respite fades

SA has been a relatively good story in the emerging-market world si...

Isaah Mhlanga

Business Day