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The Composition of Capital Flows : Is South Africa Different?
Ahmed, Faisal - 2014
Over the past decade, South Africa has attracted relatively little foreign direct investment (FDI), but considerable amounts of portfolio inflows. In this context, the objective of the paper is twofold: to identify the determinants of the level and composition of capital flows to emerging...
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Household Consumption Volatility and Poverty Risk : Case Studies from South Africa and Tanzania
Bellon, Matthieu - 2020
fluctuations, raising the incidence of poverty. Drawing on micro-level data from South Africa and Tanzania, we examine the … are most prevalent and which consumption-smoothing mechanisms are available. In Tanzania, agricultural shocks are an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012836527
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Taylor Visits Africa
Goncalves, Carlos - 2016
de facto pursuing a strategy more akin to a Taylor Rule. Estimations of small-scale models for Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania … place in Kenya and Tanzania. In Uganda, these errors are much smaller, in fact similar in size to Taylor Rule deviations …
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Education Systems and Foreign Direct Investment : Does External Efficiency Matter?
Wendlassida Miningou, Elise - 2017
This paper examines the effect of the efficiency of the education system on Foreign Direct Investment (FDI). First, it focuses on the external efficiency and applies a frontier-based measure as a proxy of the ability of countries to optimally convert the average years of schooling into income...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012956477
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Institutions and Growth : A GMM/IV Panel VAR Approach
Góes, Carlos - 2015
Both sides of the institutions and growth debate have resorted largely to microeconometric techniques in testing hypotheses. In this paper, I build a panel structural vector autoregression (SVAR) model for a short panel of 119 countries over 10 years and find support for the institutions...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013015683
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Commodity Price Volatility and the Sources of Growth
Cavalcanti, Tiago - 2012
This paper studies the impact of the level and volatility of the commodity terms of trade on economic growth, as well as on the three main growth channels: total factor productivity, physical capital accumulation, and human capital acquisition. We use the standard system GMM approach as well as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013111408
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Tanzania's Growth Process and Success in Reducing Poverty
Treichel, Volker - 2021
Since 1995, Tanzania has made major progress in economic reform and macroeconomic stabilization, resulting in strong … growth and low inflation. This paper reviews Tanzania's growth performance and prospects and assesses the impact of growth on … policies should allow Tanzania to grow above 5 percent a year over the medium term. Furthermore, it finds that growth since …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013318084
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Inward and Outward Spillovers in the SACU Area
Canales-Kriljenko, Jorge Iván - 2013
Spillovers from South Africa into the other members of the Souther Africa Customs Union (known as the BLNS for Botstwana, Lesotho, Namibia, and Swaziland) are substantial reflecting sizeable real and financial interlinkages. However, shocks to real GDP growth in South Africa do not seem to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013086315
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The Quest for Non-Resource-Based FDI : Do Taxes Matter?
Kinda, Tidiane - 2014
Using manufacturing and services firm-level data for 30 sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries, this paper shows that taxation is not a significant driver for the location of foreign firms in SSA, while other investment climate factors, such as infrastructure, human capital, and insitutions, are....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013058435
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Market Power, Growth, and Inclusion : The South African Experience
Thakoor, Vimal - 2021
Before the pandemic, the South African economy remained stuck in low gear, with anemic growth, stagnant private investment, and a shrinking tradable sector. Subdued growth has raised unemployment, poverty, and inequality, hindering inclusion efforts. The pandemic has worsened economic and social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315088