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Infrastructure and Growth in South Africa: Direct and Indirect Productivity Impacts of 19 Infrastructure Measures
Fedderke, Johannes; Željko Bogetic - Economic Research Southern Africa (ERSA) - 2005
Empirical explorations of the growth and productivity impacts of infrastructure have been characterized by ambiguous … indirect) channels of influence between infrastructure and productivity improvements. This paper explores these possibilities … of alternative measures of productivity, the prevalence of ambiguous (countervailing signs) results, with little …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008594432
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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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Exploring Unbalanced Growth in South Africa: Understanding the Sectoral Structure of the South African Economy
Fedderke, Johannes W. - Economic Research Southern Africa (ERSA) - 2014
the supply-side of the economy, we confirm the well-known fact of differential total factor productivity (TFP) growth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010940468
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An Economic Model of the Apartheid State
Lowenberg, Anton D. - Economic Research Southern Africa (ERSA) - 2014
Rather than a rigid racial ideology, it is argued that South African apartheid was a pragmatic response of a white oligarchy to changing economic and political constraints. Consequently, the degree to which apartheid principles were applied and enforced by the South African state varied over...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010929135
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The wealth of the Cape Colony: Measurements from probate inventories
Fourie, Johan - Economic Research Southern Africa (ERSA) - 2012
The stylized view of the Dutch Cape Colony (1652-1795) is of a poor, subsistence economy, with little progress in the first 143 years of Dutch rule. New evidence from probate inventory and auction roll records show that previous estimates about wealth at the Cape are inaccurate. In contrast to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010535393
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The Economics of Information Technology in Public Sector Health Facilities in Developing Countries: The Case of South Africa
Cline, Gregory B.; Luiz, John M. - Economic Research Southern Africa (ERSA) - 2011
The public healthcare sector in developing countries face many challenges, including weak healthcare systems and under resourced facilities that deliver poor outcomes relative to total healthcare expenditure. Healthcare delivery, access to healthcare and cost containment has the potential for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009319023
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Talking to the inattentive public: How the media translates the Reserve Bank’s communications
Reid, Monique; Plessis, Stan Du - Economic Research Southern Africa (ERSA) - 2011
Central bank communication is widely recognised as crucial to the implementation of monetary policy. This communication should enhance a central bank’s management of the inflation expectations of the financial markets as well as the general public — the latter being a part of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009369289
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Estimating the inflation threshold for South Africa
Leshoro, Temitope L.A. - Economic Research Southern Africa (ERSA) - 2012
How detrimental is inflation to growth in South Africa? At what level? Motivated by the adoption of inflation targeting by many countries, this paper sets out to empirically determine the threshold level of inflation in South Africa. This study adopts quarterly time series data spanning over the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010549210
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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 Africa using nationally representative household survey data from the October Household Surveys (1997 and 1999) and the General Household Surveys (2004 and 2008). These years...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010550938
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Dissecting post-apartheid labour market developments: Decomposing a discrete choice model while dealing with unobservables
Wittenberg, Martin - Economic Research Southern Africa (ERSA) - 2007
The abolition of apartheid should have improved the employment prospects of black South Africans. The reality seems to have been different, with rising unemployment rates. Disentangling the real trends from changes in measurement and sampling design has proved to be difficult. We tackle this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008594421