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A Note on Infrastructure Quality in South Africa

Fourie, Johan - Department of Economics, Fakulteit Ekonomiese en … - 2007

The emphasis, both in research and in policy making, seems to be on more infrastructure, rather than better infrastructure. This research note aims to critically analyse the lack of quality indicators in infrastructure empirics and to redirect attention to improving infrastructure quality in its...

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Some policy proposals for future infrastructure investment in South Africa

Fourie, Johan - Department of Economics, Fakulteit Ekonomiese en … - 2006

The South African government has begun to ramp up economic infrastructure investment. This is an important policy shift and in line with the government’s aim of increasing economic growth to 6% and halving poverty by 2014. It follows that we are left with the question: What are the most...

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Infrastructure in South Africa: Who is to finance and who is to pay?

Calitz, Estian; Fourie, Johan - Department of Economics, Fakulteit Ekonomiese en … - 2007

Against the backdrop of shifting views on the role of government in the provision of infrastructure, this paper distinguishes between the payment for and financing of the South African Government’s infrastructure investment programme. The paper also presents a classification system that...

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The role and value of water in natural capital restoration on the Agulhas Plain

Fourie, Helanya; Wit, Martin de; Merwe, Albert van der - Department of Economics, Fakulteit Ekonomiese en … - 2011

of ecosystem goods and services, and in particular to increase the amount of water available for consumption. The study … analyses indicate that the cost of alien clearing and restoration in the area cannot be justified if the additional water … released holds no benefit to the Plain. A brief assessment shows that the actual average value of water on the Agulhas Plain …

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What do we know about primary teachers’ mathematical content knowledge in South Africa? An analysis of SACMEQ 2007

Venkat, Hamsa; Spaull, Nicholas - Department of Economics, Fakulteit Ekonomiese en … - 2014

Primary school mathematics teachers should, at the most basic level, have mastery of the content knowledge that they are required to teach. In this paper we test empirically whether this is the case by analyzing the South African SACMEQ 2007 mathematics teacher test data which tested 401 grade 6...

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Wage subsidies and youth employment in South Africa: Evidence from a randomised control trial

Levinsohn, James; Rankin, Neil; Roberts, Gareth; … - Department of Economics, Fakulteit Ekonomiese en … - 2014

• Youth unemployment in South Africa is high, differs substantially by race group and is increasing. In 2012, close to two-thirds of young Africans were broadly unemployed. Over the four years prior to this the unemployment rate had increased by almost ten percentage points. • A wage subsidy...

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Compulsory tutorial programmes and performance in undergraduate microeconomics: A regression discontinuity design

Schöer, Volker; Shepherd, Debra - Department of Economics, Fakulteit Ekonomiese en … - 2013

As South African universities experience extremely low graduation rates, academic staff implement a range of interventions, such as tutorial programmes, in order to improve student performance. However, relatively little is known about the impact of such tutorial programmes on students’...

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GDP in the Dutch Cape Colony: The national accounts of a slave-based society

Fourie, Johan; Zanden, Jan Luiten van - Department of Economics, Fakulteit Ekonomiese en … - 2012

during the eighteenth century. This stands in sharp contrast to the perceived view that the Cape was an “economic and social …

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The dynamics of child poverty in South Africa between 2008 and 2012: An analysis using the National Income Dynamics Study

Fintel, Marisa von; Zoch, Asmus - Department of Economics, Fakulteit Ekonomiese en … - 2015

The aim of this study is to use data from three waves of the National Income Dynamics Study (2008, 2010 and 2012) in order to examine and decompose the dynamics of child poverty over the period. The study is specifically aimed at examining the poverty dynamics of children, as they have been...

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The dynamics of inequality in a newly settled, pre-industrial society: The case of the Cape Colony

Fourie, Johan; Fintel, Dieter von - Department of Economics, Fakulteit Ekonomiese en … - 2009

One reason for the relatively poor development performance of many countries around the world today may be the high levels of inequality during and after colonisation. Evidence from colonies in the Americas suggests that skewed initial factor endowments could create small elites that owned a...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005023750

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