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Estimates of a supply-side model of the nonprimary sectors, in which particular attention has been paid to modeling key …
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This paper applies a state-space approach to estimate the implicit inflation target of the South African Reserve Bank (SARB) since the adoption of the Inflation Targeting (IT) framework. The paper's findings are two. First, although the official inflation target range is 3.6 percent, in...
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This paper applies a state-space approach to estimate the implicit inflation target of the South African Reserve Bank (SARB) since the adoption of the Inflation Targeting (IT) framework. The paper's findings are two. First, although the official inflation target range is 3.6 percent, in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014395678
The effects of the marked slowdown in the growth of the capital stock in South Africa since 1985, associated with … political uncertainty and financial sanctions, and future growth prospects are quantified using a modified version of the Lewis … the growth rata of the capital stock leads to at 0.8 percent change in output growth, and hence the fall in investment …
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-shedding observed during the recent financial crisis. The paper finds that the rapid growth of the real wage, which outpaced the labor … productivity growth in most sectors, played an important role in suppressing employment creation. The paper also finds that while … and thus contribute to a weak link between real wage growth and labor productivity growth in the short term. This finding …
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The study looks at the cyclical behavior of the markups and assesses its impact on inflation dynamics. The analysis finds that the aggregate level of the private sector''s markup is relatively high, thus pointing to the lack of strong competition in South Africa''s product markets. Additionally,...
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a similar trajectory over time, seem to have a powerful predictive information for the near-term GDP growth (up to four … relatively high predictive power regarding GDP growth, a further deterioration may imply that economic activity is likely to slow …
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