Urbanization | Economic Research Southern Africa

Keyword: Urbanization

South Africa’s future will be decided in our cities

Discussion Document 14 South Africa’s cities face multiple, overlap...

Dieter von Fintel, Justin Visagie, Ivan Turok, Takwanisa Machemedze, Claus Rabe, Sebastian Galiani, Edward Glaeser

Discussion Document

Cities, productivity and Jobs in SA: Problems and potential

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

Ivan Turok, Justin Visagie

Discussion Document

Virtual CDE Workshop on SA Cities and Growth

Urban economics has provided powerful insights into how the charact...

Workshop

Phases of higher education, tuition grants, and equity-efficiency tradeoff

We study how taxes and alternative higher education subsidies affec...

Yoseph Y. Getachew

Working Paper

Spatial dependence of per capita property tax income in South Africa

We investigate spatial dependence of per capita property tax income...

Kabeya C. Mulamba, Fiona Tregenna

Working Paper

Motivating teachers in rural Zambia using a monetary incentive

Like many developing countries, the achievement gap between rural a...

Miquel Pellicer, Mashekwa Maboshe, Grieve Chelwa

Policy Brief

Regional disparities in income-independent quality of life in South African municipalit...

Background: Since 1994, the South African government has introduced...

Talita Dalton-Greyling, Stephanié Rossouw

Policy Brief

The Impact of Basic and Social Infrastructure Investment on Economic Growth and Social ...

Basic and social infrastructure investment can assist in addressing...

Derick Blaauw, Talita Dalton-Greyling, Henk Gnade

Policy Brief

Globalisation and Conflict: Evidence from sub-Saharan Africa

Stephen Pinker (2011) advances that various forms of violence such ...

Carolyn Chisadza, Manoel Bittencourt

Working Paper

Globalisation and Conflicts: A Theoretical Approach

This paper is aimed at providing insights into the interplay betwee...

Matthew W. Clance, André C. Jordaan, Bonginkosi Mamba

Working Paper

Small-scale Subsistence Farming, Food Security, Climate Change and Adaptation in South ...

This study examines the role of gender of the head of household on ...

Martine Visser, Byela Tibesigwa

Working Paper

The Relative (in)Efficiency of South African Municipalities in Providing Public Health ...

Previous studies in South Africa have not dis-aggregated efficiency...

Saidou B. Oumar, Josue Mbonigaba

Working Paper

The spatial persistence of population and wealth during apartheid: comparing the 1911 a...

This article examines the spatial distribution of people and wealth...

Waldo F. Krugell

Working Paper

Municipal assessments versus actual sales price information in hedonic price studies: A...

In most hedonic price model studies, the actual sales price of a pr...

Michael C. Sale, Mario du Preez

Policy Brief

Modeling the Cost-effectiveness of HIV/AIDS Interventions in Different Socio-economic C...

Evidence of how cost-effectiveness (CE) of an HIV/AIDS intervention...

Josue Mbonigaba

Working Paper