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South Africa : the financial sector-sovereign nexus
Hesse, Heiko; Miyajima, Ken - 2022
Globally, financial institutions have increased their holdings of domestic sovereign debt, tightening the linkage between the health of the financial system and the level of sovereign debt, or the "financial sector-sovereign nexus," during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. In South Africa, the...
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Diamond Smuggling and Taxation in Sub-Saharan Africa
Vocke, Matthias - 2003
This paper provides an overview of diamond mining in sub-Saharan African countries, and explores the reasons for … incentives for smuggling. In a theoretical model, we show that optimal diamond tax rates increase with the degree of competition … among diamond buyers, as well as with the corporate share of diamond production, which is confirmed by the data. We then …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014403885
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Are Diamonds Forever? : Using the Permanent Income Hypothesis to Analyze Botswana's Relianceon Diamond Revenue
Basdevant, Olivier - 2008
This study assesses the sustainability of Botswana’s diamond-related fiscal revenue. Diamond reserves are not adequate …
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Fiscal sustainability and the fiscal reaction function for South Africa
Burger, Philippe; Stuart, Ian; Jooste, Charl; Cuevas, … - 2011
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Estimating the implicit inflation target of the South African reserve bank
Klein, Nir - 2012
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/10009621000
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South Africa's exports performance : any role for structural factors?
Anand, Rahul; Perrelli, Roberto; Zhang, Boyang - 2016
Despite a substantial and prolonged exchange rate depreciation, South Africa's export performance has disappointed since the global financial crisis. In this paper we focus on the role of structural factors in reducing the responsiveness of South African exports to the real exchange rate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011435831
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Taylor visits Africa
Goncalves, Carlos Eduardo - 2015
Many low-income countries do not use interest rates as their main monetary policy instrument. In East Africa, for instance, targeting money aggregates has been pretty much the rule rather than the exception. Nevertheless, these targets are seldom met and often readjusted according to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011445839
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Safe debt and uncertainty in emerging markets : an application to South Africa
Saxegaard, Magnus - 2014
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Real wage, labor productivity, and employment trends in South Africa : a closer look
Klein, Nir - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009614696
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Analyzing capital flow drivers using the "at-risk" framework : South Africa’s case
Goel, Rohit; Miyajima, Ken - 2021
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012796323