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The purpose of this paper is to examine factors that have constrained South Africa''s growth since the end of apartheid … study finds that sluggish investment has undermined growth since 1996 and that the underinvestment is in part explained by … growth in South Africa …
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This paper investigates the dynamic impact of natural resource discoveries on government debt sustainability. We use a 'natural experiment' framework in which the timing of discoveries is treated as an exogenous source of within-country variation. We combine data on government debt, fiscal...
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This paper analyzes the link between public investment, economic growth and debt sustainability in Sierra Leone using … emphasize the importance of improvements in the structural economic conditions to reap growth dividends. In addition, even if … to increased risk of unsustainable debt dynamics. This underscores the need to remove bottlenecks to growth and maintain …
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growth, real wages and the supply of public services. Senegal does not need, however, to undertake such difficult fiscal …
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inclusive green growth (IGG) relationship in Africa. Based on macro data for 22 African countries and the Driscoll …
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We study the relationship between housing inequality and crime in South Africa. We create a novel panel dataset … combining information on crimes at the police station level with census data. We find that housing inequality explains a …. An increase of one standard deviation in housing inequality explains between 9 and 13 percent of crime increases …
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We test for the distributional effects of regulation and entry in the mobile telecommunications sector in a highly unequal country, South Africa. Using six waves of a consumer survey of over 134,000 individuals between 2009-2014, we estimate a discrete-choice model allowing for...
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The paper offers an approach to assessing the sustainability of public debt taking into account the effect of fiscal policy on output, as well as uncertainty in the model parameters and system dynamics. Uncertainty is specified in general terms, and the analysis is based on the notion of...
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