The sub-optimal savings propensity in South Africa the past three decades causes concern for the ability of the country … to support its economic development. An historical analysis of the development of the savings’ trends in South Africa … economic history literature on the colonial past of South Africa by using newly compiled data on the GDP of the Cape Colony …

of growth and comparative economic development, especially in regions such as Africa. Using the reported age of criminals …

inequality and narrow middle-class such as Apartheid South Africa. The presence of a credible threat of capital flight is shown … development of the finance sector in South Africa in the later years of Apartheid made the exit option a major part of the …

. These range from the crowd-out of private by public sector investment, non-linearities generating the possibility of … utilizing panel data for South Africa over the 1970-2000 period, and arrange of 19 infrastructure measures. Utilizing a number … virtually all evidence of ambiguous impacts of infrastructure, due for example to possible over investment in infrastructure …

is consistent across all ten census years. This paper also provides support for earlier results that low investment rates …

productivity and investment rates based on bivariate examinations of the data are ambiguous. The paper concludes by examining the … impact of concentration on employment and investment rates using a dynamic heterogeneous panel estimation methodology. We … find that increased concentration unambiguously lowers employment. For investment rates, increased inequality of market …

India. A stark contrast emerges between China, with low mark-ups of price over marginal cost of production, and South Africa … Africa and India have a relatively small manufacturing sector. We also provide an estimate of foregone employment … opportunities due to the presence of pricing power has carried for South Africa. We provide a framework in terms of which the impact …

continent and this opens up new tourismmarkets. We show that the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa had a smaller growth effect … tournament. We use a new longrun dataset of tourism flows to South Africa and a gravity model fortourism flows and run … counterfactual examples of play-off matches during the qualification phase to estimate how much more South Africa couldhave benefited …

Recent empirical migration literature in South Africa suggests that access to physical and human capital, in the way of … in South Africa, the National Income Dynamics Study, I estimate a standard model of migration choice with the inclusion … social capital does indeed play a role along with physical and human capital in determining who migrates in South Africa. …

This paper develops a new index of economic uncertainty for South Africa for the period 1990-2014 and analyses the … count of international and local newspaper articles discussing economic uncertainty in South Africa and (3) mentions of … with a fall in GDP, investment, industrial production and private sector employment. Contrary to evidence for the U.S.A and …