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Research Programmes (Economic Theme): Policy Implications of Climate Change

ESSA National PhD Conference 2024

ESSA in collaboration with Economic Research South Africa (ERSA) an...

Workshop

Assessing the Impact of Environmental Policies on South African Trade

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

Gracelin Baskaran

Discussion Document

Gracelin Baskaran on how environmental policies may impact South African trade

One month after COP28, we record our first podcast of 2024. As the ...

Margaux Giannaros, Gracelin Baskaran

Podcast

Request for Proposals: Back to inflation

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

Call for Work

Shedding light on AGOA

This week, after much anticipation, the AGOA Forum was hosted in Na...

Gracelin Baskaran, Margaux Giannaros

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

Can we shield South Africa from climate change?

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

Claire Bisseker

Business Live

Foresight Africa 2023: Presentation

Brookings Institution’s Flagship Foresight Africa 2023 was wr...

Aloysius Uche Ordu

Workshop Presentation

CVM3 Regional Workshop Presentation: Southern Africa

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

Brent Cloete

Workshop Presentation

Foresight Africa 2023: A Southern African Perspective

Please join the Brookings Institution and Economics Research Southe...

Haroon Bhorat, Matthew Simmonds, Mamokete Lijane, Will Pearson, Aloysius Uche Ordu, Gracelin Baskaran

Dialogue

Climate Vulnerability of Southern Africa

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

Brent Cloete

Occasional Paper

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

ESSA National PhD Conference 2023

ESSA in collaboration with Economic Research South Africa (ERSA) an...

Workshop

Request for Proposals: Lerumo Intellectual Support Program

Thank you to those of you that submitted your proposals. As part of...

Submit paper: 28 February 2023

ERSA

Skills Development

Call for Work: Request for Proposals: Lerumo Intellectual Support Program

Thank you to those of you that submitted your proposals. As part of...

Submit paper: 28 February 2023

Call for Work

Climate Vulnerability Monitor Key Points

The Climate Vulnerability Monitor is a unique global assessment at ...

Occasional Paper

Climate Vulnerability Monitor, 3rd Edition (CVM3)

The Climate Vulnerability Monitor is a unique global assessment at ...

Occasional Paper

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

Second Annual UP PhD Workshop in Economics Held

This year’s workshop, organised by Manoel Bittencourt and Jes...

Jesse Naidoo, Manoel Bittencourt

University of Pretoria News Blog

The long-term effects of early-life exposure to weather shocks: Evidence from Tanzania

We examine whether early-life exposure to rainfall shocks has a lon...

Ermias G. Weldesenbet

Working Paper

Climate change and child health: A Nigerian perspective

The detrimental effect of climate change on health is becoming an e...

Matthew W. Clance, Eleni Yitbarek, Eduard van der Merwe

Working Paper

Revisiting the accuracy of inflation forecasts in Nigeria: The oil price-exchange rate-...

Motivated by the distinctive paradoxical nature of the Nigerian eco...

Yusuf Yakubua, Ojo Adelakun, Kazeem Isah, Elias Udeaja, Abdulkader C. Mahomedy

Working Paper

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 4: Building back for a sustainable future

The discussion is based on two papers: , by Channing Arndt, Robert ...

Wandile Sihlobo, Tendai Gwatidzo, Ann Bernstein, Witness Simbanegavi, Matthew Simmonds, Channing Arndt

Dialogue

Building a competitive and dynamic green industrial sector in South Africa after COVID-19

Policy Paper 28 COVID-19 gave the world a glimpse of how devastatin...

Tendai Gwatidzo, Witness Simbanegavi

Policy Paper

Transhumant pastoralism, climate change and conflict in Africa

We consider the effects of climate change on seasonally migrant pop...

Eoin F. McGuirk, Nathan Nunn

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 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

Policy Bulletin 02: Reflections on Aspects of Public Finance and Fiscal Policy in South...

After the COVID-19 crisis is over, South Africa will face a fiscal ...

Estian Calitz

Policy Bulletin

Prenatal health and weather-related shocks under social safety net policy in Kenya

Exposure to weather shocks around the time of birth has been shown ...

Djiby R. Thiam, Silas Ongudi

Working Paper

The South African - United States Sovereign Bond Spread and its Association with Macroe...

The yield spread of South African to United States 10 year governme...

Johannes W. Fedderke

Working Paper

Monetary policy and inequality

South Africa is one of the most unequal countries in the world and ...

Neryvia Pillay Bell

Policy Brief

Optimal Targeted Lockdowns in a Multi-Group SIR Model

We study targeted lockdowns in a multi-group SIR model where infect...

Michael D. Whinston, Victor Chernozhukovz, Iván Werning, Daron Acemoglu

Working Paper

The political economy of palm oil expansion and deforestation in Indonesia

This paper studies the interactions between political and economic ...

Nunung Nuryartono, Krisztina Kis-Katosz, Elías Cisnerosy

Working Paper

Policy Bulletin 03: Macroeconomic policy options for a savings constrained economy: the...

Economic growth requires delivering a credible fiscal consolidation...

David Faulkner, Christopher Loewald, Konstantin Makrelov

Policy Bulletin

Emergent large traders in smallholder grain markets and their role in enhancing adoptio...

Pervasive threats of climate change and land degradation have compo...

Thomas S. Jayne, Milu Muyanga, Martine Visser, Chalmers Mulwa

Working Paper