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