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The tipping point: The impact of rising electricity tariffs on large firms in South Africa

Goliger, Angelika; McMillan, Landon - 2018

While much research has been done on the economic impacts of load-shedding in South Africa, fewer studies have focused on the effects of the rapidly rising electricity tariffs. The issue of tariff increases has now become even more critical, with technological developments making it easier and...

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Household tipping points in the face of rising electricity tariffs in South Africa

Goliger, Angelika; Cassim, Aalia - 2018

Since the start of sharp electricity tariff increases in 2008, South African household demand for electricity has not been significantly affected. However, the combination of economic realities and ongoing electricity tariff increases will eventually compel households to reduce their electricity...

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Economic governance: Improving the economic and regulatory environment for supporting private sector activity

Kirkpatrick, Colin - 2012

This paper reviews the state of knowledge on the effectiveness of donor interventions aimed at improving the regulatory environment for private sector development in developing countries. Where regulatory reform is undertaken, the expectation is that there will be improvements to economic and...

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The political economy of food price policy: The case of Kenya

Nzuma, Jonathan Makau - 2013

This paper evaluates Kenya's food price crisis over 2002 - 11 using a political economy approach. Kenya's food prices have been high and volatile relative to world food prices. Moreover, domestic food markets are highly integrated while about 30 per cent of the changes in world market prices are...

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Women legislators and economic performance

Baskaran, Thushyanthan; Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Min, Brian; … - 2018

There has been a phenomenal global increase in the proportion of women in politics in the last 20 years. While there is evidence that raising the share of women politicians has substantive impacts on the composition of government spending, there is scarcely any evidence of how it influences...

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Party system institutionalization and reliance on personal income tax: Exploring the relationship using new data

von Schiller, Armin - 2017

This paper explores the effect of party system institutionalization on the reliance of tax systems on the personal income tax. As a first step, the paper re-examines the relationship between party system institutionalization and taxation patterns employing the recently launched Government...

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Worker retraining and transfer payments: The political economy of social protection

Jain, Sanjay - 2017

We conduct an incentive-theoretical analysis of political economy considerations in the design of social protection programmes in developing countries to accompany economic reforms. We focus on two aspects of social protection - the provision of redistribution and retraining - that arguably...

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Support policies for renewables: Instrument choice and instrument change from a public choice perspective

Gawel, Erik; Strunz, Sebastian; Lehmann, Paul - 2016

This paper frames the transition towards clean energies as a sequential process of instrument choice and instrument change. First, regulators decide how to initiate the transition away from fossil energies. Here, support policies for renewable electricity are politically convenient because they...

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Misuse of institutions: Lessons from Transition

Polishchuk, Leonid - 2010

The paper explores a phenomenon often observed in transition economies, when newly established institutions are misused, i.e., applied or resorted to for reasons which have little in common with their intended or anticipated purpose. In such incidences institutions become sources of private...

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The regulation of interconnection and regulatory alignment in the Southern African Development Community

Nsomba, Grace - 2021

roaming services. The investigation and analysis find that there are currently low levels of alignment in regulation between … operator costs is asymmetric, making regulation challenging, as this affects the extent to which the relationship between costs …-the-top services. Attention therefore needs to be paid to the harmonization of regulation regarding Internet-related services. Here …

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