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This paper measures the extent to which South African economic growth is an engine of growth in sub-Saharan Africa …. Results based on panel data estimation for 47 African countries over four decades suggest that South African growth has a … substantial positive impact on growth in the rest of Africa, even after controlling for other growth determinants. The estimates …
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This paper provides estimates of potential output growth in post-apartheid South Africa using both time trend … techniques and a production function approach which indicates a potential growth rate of around 3 percent. The implied output gap … macroeconomic policy. Growth accounting and regression analysis suggest that an increase in trend GDP growth after the end of …
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Cross-border capital flows are important for South Africa. They fund the nation's relatively large external financing needs and have important financial stability implications evidenced by the large capital outflows and asset price selloffs during the COVID-19 pandemic. This paper adds to the...
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The transparency of monetary policy in South Africa has increased substantially since the end of the 1990s; but little empirical work has been done to examine the economic benefits of the increased transparency. This paper shows that, in recent years, South African private sector forecasters...
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, combining pure economic disturbances (to growth, interest rates, and exchange rates), the endogenous policy response to these …
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