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Production, Inequality and Poverty linkages in South Africa
Ngepah, Nicholas - Economic Research Southern Africa (ERSA) - 2011
-group) and poverty with 3sls using South African data. The findings suggest that production is affected negatively by between … Kuznets process. There is a significant poverty-increasing (reducing) effect of total and between-group inequalities (output …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008876346
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Poverty and headship in post-apartheid South Africa, 1997-2008
Rogan, Michael - Economic Research Southern Africa (ERSA) - 2012
In this paper, I investigate the characteristics and poverty status of female- and male-headed households in South … General Household Surveys (2004 and 2008). These years (1997-2008) represent a period for which there is an extensive poverty … literature documenting (particularly in the 2000s) an overall decrease in the poverty headcount rate. At the same time, however …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010550938
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A regional perspective on Aid and FDI in Southern Africa
Bezuidenhout, Henri - Economic Research Southern Africa (ERSA) - 2009
During the last decade international aid flows diminished while Africa’s relative share of global foreign direct investment (FDI) declined. This went together with lacklustre growth and low human development levels. In 2005, the G8 countries announced that they would increase aid to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008563265
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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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Fiscal Illusion at the Local Sphere: An Empirical Test of the Flypaper Effect using South African Municipal Data
Amusa, Hammed; Mabunda, Robert; Mabugu, Ramos - Economic Research Southern Africa (ERSA) - 2008
Despite South Africa’s relatively decentralized governance and administrative structure, an important feature of the country’s intergovernmental fiscal relations system is the gap that exists between the expenditure responsibilities of sub-national authorities and their assigned...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008563277
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South African Manufacturing Industry Structure and its Implications for Competition Policy
Fedderke, Johannes; Simbanegavi, Witness - Economic Research Southern Africa (ERSA) - 2008
This paper surveys the literature on the manufacturing sector in South Africa, focusing on concentration and markup levels, with a view to inform policy. The literature has employed a number of different measures of industrial concentration, namely, the Gini and Rosenbluth indices, the Occupancy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008563278
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Value, Size and Momentum Portfolios in Real Time: The Cross-Section of South African Stocks
Bartens, Ryans; Hassan, Shakill - Economic Research Southern Africa (ERSA) - 2009
We implement a recursive out-of-sample method to examine anomalies-based ex-ante predictability in the cross-section of stock returns. We obtain a series of simulated out-of-sample returns, consistent with investors using only prior information when choosing predictor variables. We find that, by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008563288
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Price Elasticities and Pricing Power in Emerging Markets: The Case of Petrochemicals Derived Plastics in South Africa
Fedderke, Johannes; Simbanegavi, Witness - Economic Research Southern Africa (ERSA) - 2008
This paper examines whether there necessarily exists a conflict between allocative and productive efficiency in small open economy markets. That productive efficiency favours market concentration is not in dispute, and the sole question we face is whether allocative efficiency suffers under high...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008563292
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Exchange rate pass-through to import prices in South Africa: Is there asymmetry?
Karoro, T D; Aziakpono, M J; Cattaneo, N - Economic Research Southern Africa (ERSA) - 2008
There is growing emphasis on the role played by the private sector in alleviating poverty in Africa. At the same time …, greater focus is being placed on cash transfers as a poverty alleviation tool. This paper provides an economic rationale for … transfers as a poverty alleviation instrument. Cell phone banking, mobile branches, Point of sale (POS) technology and low cost …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008563312
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Evaluating the Performance of South African Economics Departments
Luiz, John - Economic Research Southern Africa (ERSA) - 2009
Over the past decade economics departments in South Africa have seen major changes and a certain level of disruption. Much of this can be attributed to the integration of our discipline into the global arena after a period of academic isolation. This paper presents a survey of economics...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008563313