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This paper analyses the food price trends in South Africa during two periods of rapid food price inflation that occurred in the decade 2000 - 10 and unpacks the political reaction and policy responses to the food price crises in these two periods. Based on personal recollection of events during...
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using a dynamic economy-wide model linked to an energy sector model. Simulation results indicate that a phased-in carbon tax … preferred tax scenario reduces national absorption and employment by 1.2 and 0.6 per cent, respectively, by 2025. However, if … South Africa's trading partners unilaterally impose a carbon consumption tax then welfare and employment losses exceed those …
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This study examines the role of politics on decentralization and service delivery in South Africa, with a specific focus on Johannesburg and Cape Town. The research delineates how national decentralization has affected service delivery responsibilities and resources, determines whether service...
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-intensive consumers. These results suggest that carbon pricing policies (without border tax adjustments) would adversely affect export …
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The United Nations Millennium Declaration commits to halving extreme poverty between 2000 and 2015. The South African government has set a goal of halving poverty by 2014, although the meaning of this goal has not yet been defined. This article specifies government's stated target of halving...
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The paper analyses the changes in tax policy, tax/GDP ratios, tax incidence and income inequality which have taken … liberal years of the 1980s and 1990s. The paper argues that the recent tax policy changes and a favourable external … environment led to an increase of about three points in the regional tax/GDP ratio, that such increase in taxation took place in a …
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Using the universe of South African corporate tax returns for 2009-14, we estimate profit- and debt-shifting responses …-shifting responses to tax incentives across all channels are systematically higher compared to developed countries. …
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derived from anonymous corporate and individual tax data, presents an opportunity to explore this relatively uncharted and …
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The Government Revenue Dataset (GRD) was launched in September 2014 and, in the few years since, has gone on to be recognized as the go-to source for researchers and policymakers seeking cross-country data on government revenues and taxes. However, as with any such project, successive rounds of...
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Through the use of administrative tax data, this study attempts to identify the characteristics of firms that employ … the analysis within the limitations of the variables in different tax data sets. The novelty of this paper is that it uses … unique administrative tax micro-data sets, which allows us to explore the relationship between firm characteristics and youth …
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