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Characterizing Conflict Forms
Fedderke, Johannes; Kularatne, Chandana - Economic Research Southern Africa (ERSA) - 2008
This paper presents a model in which two groups in society are engaged in strategic interaction. Privileged members of society have the opportunity to allocate resources either to their own productive capacity, or to enhance the productive capacity of the disadvantaged. Redistribution to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008563270
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Sources of Subsectoral Growth in South Africa
Tregenna, Fiona - Economic Research Southern Africa (ERSA) - 2013
While South Africa’s growth performance has improved somewhat in recent years, it has generally been poor over the past few decades. This article uses Chenery’s factor decomposition method to analyse the sources of growth in South Africa from 1970 to 2007. Using input-output data,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011133833
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Democracy and Education: Evidence from the Southern African Development Community
Bittencourt, Manoel - Economic Research Southern Africa (ERSA) - 2014
on education during the 1980-2009 period. The results, based on panel time-series analysis (I use the Pooled OLS and … played an important role in terms of widening access to education in the community. All in all, the results are significant … education is an important determinant of growth and development. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010775244
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Life satisfaction and education in South Africa: Investigating the role of attainment and the likelihood of education as a positional good
Botha, Ferdi - Economic Research Southern Africa (ERSA) - 2013
This paper explores various dynamics in the relationship between life satisfaction and education in South Africa using … that education is a positional good, in that people who have attained more than the mean level of education in their … relevant cluster are significantly more satisfied with life compared to those possessing less than the mean education. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010662822
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Slave numeracy in the Cape Colony and comparative development in the eighteenth century
Baten, Jörg; Fourie, Johan - Economic Research Southern Africa (ERSA) - 2012
The lack of accurate measures of human capital formation often constrain investigations into the long-run determinants of growth and comparative economic development, especially in regions such as Africa. Using the reported age of criminals in the Courts of Justice records in the Cape Archive,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011133839
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Is Water Shedding Next?
Blignaut, James; Heerden, Jan van - Economic Research Southern Africa (ERSA) - 2009
South Africa is in the grip of an electricity crisis marked by a euphemism known as “load sheddingâ€. The demand for electricity has grown to the point that the supply reserve margin is often under threat, necessitating the electricity supplier to cut supply to some areas for various...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008563343
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Analysing the Effects of Fiscal Policy Shocks in the South African Economy
Jooste, Charl; Guangling (Dave) Liu; Naraidoo, Ruthira - Economic Research Southern Africa (ERSA) - 2013
This paper is the first one to analyse the effect of aggregate government spending and taxes on output for South Africa using three types of a calibrated DSGE model and more data driven models such as a structural vector error correction model (SVECM) and a time-varying parameter VAR (TVP-VAR)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010662823
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Wage Subsidy in the DRC: A CGE Analysis
Erero, Jean Luc; Pambudi, Daniel Djauhari; Bonga, … - Economic Research Southern Africa (ERSA) - 2013
This paper analyses wage subsidies on lower-skilled formal workers in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). A multi-sectoral empirically-calibrated general equilibrium model capturing the economy-wide transactions between the formal and informal sectors is used to analyse one policy simulation...
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Effects of Reducing Tariffs in The Democratic Republic of Congo(DRC): A CGE Analysis
Bonga-Bonga, Lumengo; Erero, Jean Luc; Pambudi, Daniel … - Economic Research Southern Africa (ERSA) - 2014
In this paper, the effects of reducing tariffs are analysed through a Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) model of the DRC. The specific DRC Formal-Informal Model (DRCFIM) is a multi-sectoral computable general equilibrium model that captures the observed structure of the DRC’s formal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011133860
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Average and Heterogeneous Effects of Class Size on Educational Achievement in Lesotho
Moshoeshoe, Ramaele - Economic Research Southern Africa (ERSA) - 2015
Understanding class size effects on educational achievement remains a preoccupation of many economists. But empirical results are, to this far, still inconclusive. I use the two-stage least squares and the instrumental variable quantile regression methods on Lesotho’s grade 6 students...
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