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When the remedy is worse than the disease: Adjusting survey income data for price differential, with special reference to Mozambique

  • Year 2010
  • Organisation Stellenbosch University
  • Author(s) Carlos Maia; Servaas Van der Berg
  • Countries and Regions Mozambique
Session 2B: Inflation Dynamics
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Skills development and disempowerment: Unravelling workplace equity in trying economic times

  • Year 2010
  • Organisation MERSETA
  • Author(s) Salim Akoojee
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
Session 2A: Scarce Skills
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Choices and changes: FET colleges and the transition from school to work

  • Year 2010
  • Organisation Jet Educational Services
  • Author(s) Anthony Gewer
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
Session 2A: Scarce Skills
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An analysis of the skills requirements in the electricity value-chain

  • Year 2010
  • Organisation University of Pretoria
  • Author(s) Andrew Merrifield
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
Session 2A: Scarce Skills
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South Africas response to the worldwide recession

  • Year 2010
  • Organisation The Presidency; NALEDI
  • Author(s) Alan Hirsch; Rudi Dicks
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
Session 1B: The Financial Crisis: Global and Regional Impacts
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Trade contraction in the global crisis: employment and inequality effects in India and South africa

  • Year 2010
  • Organisation International Labour Office; American University; International labour Organisation
  • Author(s) Davis Kucera; Leanne Roncolato; Erik Von Uexkull
  • Countries and Regions India, South Africa
Session 1B: The Financial Crisis: Global and Regional Impacts
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The macro economic consequences of the crisis and the response or non-response by provincial government: A KwaZulu-Natal case study

  • Year 2010
  • Organisation KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Treasury
  • Author(s) Clive Coetzee
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
Session 1B: The Financial Crisis: Global and Regional Impacts
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Decision making in the financial investment sector

  • Year 2010
  • Organisation Member of Parliament
  • Author(s) Ben Turok
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
Session 1A: Financial Development and Economic Growth
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Financial development and economic growth in Latin America: Schumpeter in right

  • Year 2010
  • Organisation University of Pretoria
  • Author(s) Manoel Bittencourt
  • Countries and Regions Mercosur (Common Market of the South), South Africa
Session 1A: Financial Development and Economic Growth
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A comment on the South African Reserve Banks commitment to the liberalisation of exchange controls

  • Year 2010
  • Organisation University of the Witswatersrand; University of London; University of the Witwatersrand
  • Author(s) Samantha Ashman; Ben Fine; Susan Newman
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
Session 1A: Financial Development and Economic Growth
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Equity market valuation, systemic risk, and monetary policy

  • Year 2010
  • Organisation Vaal University of Technology; Purdue University Calumet
  • Author(s) Job Dubihlela; Pat Obi
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
Session 1A: Financial Development and Economic Growth
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09 March 2010

Trade Diversion and Trade Creation: An Augmented Gravity Model Study for South Africa

  • Year 2010
  • Organisation TIPS
  • Author(s) Patrick Kanda; Andre Jordaan
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
This study involved the determination and analysis of trade potential for the South African pulp and paper industry using a gravity model approach. The pulp and paper sector was identified by the Department of Trade and Industry amongst four other lead sectors to enhance economic growth through the Accelerated and…
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09 March 2010

The Determination and Analysis of Trade Potential for the South African Pulp and Paper Industry using a Gravity Model Approach

  • Year 2010
  • Organisation TIPS
  • Author(s) Adele Breytenbach, Andre Jordaan
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
This paper involved the determination and analysis of trade potential for the South African pulp and paper industry using a gravity model approach. The pulp and paper sector was identified by the Department of Trade and Industry amongst four other lead sectors to enhance economic growth through the Accelerated and Shared Growth…
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26 June 2009

Economic Policy in Turbulent Times

  • Year 2009
  • Organisation TIPS
  • Author(s) Michael Parusel; Nicola Viegi
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
This paper employs the Bernanke-Gertler-Gilchrist "financial accelerator" model to study current economic conditions in South Africa. Given the turbulent financial market conditions we investigate the optimal monetary policy response as well as the potential role fiscal policy might play. As typical in the literature, we find that monetary policy should…
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10 February 2009

Assessing the Overall Trade, Business and Investment Climate in the Island States of the Western Indian Ocean

  • Year 2008
  • Organisation TIPS
  • Author(s) Graham Sherbut
  • Countries and Regions Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (Comesa)
This paper evaluates the trade, business and investment climate currently in place within the island states of the Western Indian Ocean. Operating on the premise that trade-based globalization poses a considerable challenge to island states' economic stability and prospects for equitable development, this report argues that both state institutions and…
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Capital and Market access constraints in Land Reform projects: Three case studies from Mpumalanga

  • Year 2008
  • Author(s) Chris Williams, Niel van Zyl
The systematic failure of post-settlement support in South African land reform has been identified as a major contributing variable to the approximated 50 percent failure rate  of new land reform projects.  In spite of this dismal record, government increasingly finds itself under immense political pressure to speed up land reform…
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Testing for linkages in sectoral development: An SVAR-approach to South Africa

  • Year 2008
  • Organisation Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration
  • Author(s) Michael Wild, Oliver Schwank
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
South Africa has a peculiar industrial structure given its factor endowments: production is capital intensive in sectors and concentrated in capital intensive sectors despite an abundance of unskilled labour. Part of the reason for this phenomenon lies in the development process of South African industry: it grew around the mining…
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The extent of SADC trade protection and its effects on the least developing members of the region

  • Year 2008
  • Author(s) Mmatlou Kalaba
  • Countries and Regions Southern African Development Community (SADC)
The drive towards SADC trade liberalisation is a goal that is emphasised in most documents of the SADC Secretariat, including the protocol on trade and the regional indicative strategic development plan (RISDP). This trade liberalisation aims to deepen regional integration through increased intra-trade between SADC member states, which was to…
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Regulatory Principles in South Africa

  • Year 2008
  • Organisation Faculty of economic and management sciences, University of the Western Cape
  • Author(s) Douglas Blackmur
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
The trend towards the Regulatory State. It has been argued that: 'A fundamental driver of the demand for regulation in recent years has been increasing 'risk aversion' in many spheres of life. Regulation has come to be seen as a panacea for many of society's ills and as a means…
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Economic regulation of network industries

  • Year 2008
  • Author(s) Cornel Van Basten
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
South Africa is in its infancy regarding independent economic regulation of network utilities. Although economic regulation of public utilities have been exercised in South Africa for a number of years (usually by the line Government Department), the establishment of independent economic regulation had only emerged a little more than ten…
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Exchange rate volatility spillovers and the South African currency

  • Year 2008
  • Author(s) Leroi Raputsoane
  • Countries and Regions Asia, European Union (EU), Mercosur (Common Market of the South)
This paper examines the volatility spillovers between the South African currency and the currencies of selected markets in developed and emerging Europe as well as Asia and Latin America. Additionally, the exchange rate volatility spillovers are examined over one year window samples to determine the evolution of volatility spillovers between…
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How tenure security can increase access to economic opportunities for the poor Draft position paper for the second economy strategy project: an initiative of the presidency

  • Year 2008
  • Author(s) Lauren Royston
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
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Reflecting on South Africa's post-apartheid experience with spatially informed economic development programmes

  • Year 2008
  • Organisation School of Development Studies, University of KwaZulu-Natal
  • Author(s) Glen Robbins
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
The South Africa that emerged from the 1994 democratic elections was one characterised by widespread poverty and inequality with an economy that was suffering the effects of macro-economic mismanagement.  The root causes of these problems were seen to have originated from within the distorted policies of a highly centralised apartheid…
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27 October 2008

Infrastructure, Transport Costs and Trade: A New Approach

  • Year 2008
  • Organisation TIPS
  • Author(s) Lawrence Edwards;Martin Odendaal
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
This paper investigates the impact of the quality of infrastructure on exports, with a specific focus on Sub-Sahara Africa. Improving the quality of infrastructure has a positive effect on exports by lowering the transport costs faced by the exporter. This paper provides a new specification on how to model transport…
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Infrastructure investment-led policy scenarios for South Africa

  • Year 2008
  • Organisation Development Bank of Southern Africa
  • Author(s) Marié Kirsten;Glynn Davies
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
The South African government has begun to speed up the delivery of infrastructure. This policy shift is in line with its aim to halve poverty and unemployment by 2014, achievable if the economy grows at an average rate of 6 per cent by 2010. The government was able to demonstrate…
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Rethinking scales? possible future(s) for regional-scale planning in South Africa

  • Year 2008
  • Organisation Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR)
  • Author(s) Eric Makoni
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
The making of a 'new' South Africa has not been without its challenges. After the political miracle of 1994, political actors, policy-makers and academics had to transform repressive and apartheid predatory political machinery into a functional and inclusive and democratised polity. Inebriated by the euphoria of a newly found democracy,…
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Testing for linkages in sectoral development an SVAR approach to South Africa

  • Year 2008
  • Organisation Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration
  • Author(s) Oliver Schwank;Michael Wild
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
South Africa has a peculiar industrial structure given its factor endowments: production is capital intensive in sectors and concentrated in capital intensive sectors despite an abundance of unskilled labour. Part of the reason for this phenomenon lies in the development process of South African industry: it grew around the mining…
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Zoning in on South Africa's Industrial Development Zones

  • Year 2008
  • Organisation University of KwaZulu-Natal
  • Author(s) Vanessa Tang
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
Industrial Development Zones (IDZs) have been and still are important vehicles used by developing countries to facilitate investments, create jobs and boost exports. The attractiveness of IDZs is characterized primarily by their association with the adjacent location of an airport or port, good basic infrastructure and duty-free imports of production-related…
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Trade and industrial policy in South Africa

  • Year 2008
  • Organisation Development Network Africa
  • Author(s) Frank Flatters;Matthew Stern
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
The future direction of South African industrial policy is the subject of vigorous and healthy debate. The outcome is important for the country's economic development. This study is an attempt to contribute to these discussions through an overview of and some questions about the economic impacts of South Africa's post…
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A proposal of regional development in Mexico through industrial clusters

  • Year 2008
  • Organisation Polytechnic University of San Luis Potosi, Mexico
  • Author(s) Juan Carlos Neri Guzmán
  • Countries and Regions Mercosur (Common Market of the South)
This document has the objective to determine and to analyze the economic vocation of the ten main cities in Mexico, it with the purpose to identify areas of opportunity for the implementation of policies of industrial clusters as a measure to increase the productivity in the country. From the decade…
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