Policy Briefs

Arguments for greater participation by the private sector in growth-boosting and poverty-reducing initiatives in Africa are intensifying with the mounting fear that the Millennium Development Goals will not be met. In "The Private Sector and Cash Transfers in Africa", (ERSA Working Paper No. 80)...

An electricity tax imposed at the point of production in South Africa would reduce carbon dioxide emissions, albeit at the expense of a slight pullback in overall economic output, consumption and investment. According to researchers R. Seymore, P.D. Adams, M. Mabugu, J.H. van Heerden and J...

When amplified levels of corruption and reduced penalties for illegal behaviour encourage greater levels of tax evasion, the policy response will exacerbate measures that constrain the functioning of private‐sector financial markets. In the ERSA working paper “Tax evasion and financial repression:...