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While much research has been done on the economic impacts of load-shedding in South Africa, fewer studies have focused … study examines the timing and type of own-generation investment decisions that are viable for 21 large companies, and the … likely impact of this on South Africa's electricity utility. …
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of South Africa has shown the most interest in wind power investment. For this reason, we focus parts of the study on … issues, therefore identifying areas of high and low wind power reliability in southern Africa at different time scales. After … wind resource in the country. The study finds that, although wind power density is high in South Africa compared to its …
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also going into Uganda and South Africa while South Africa is the darling of Western donors. Chinese funded projects are …
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the current and future development of mining. Focusing on Tanzania as typical of the emerging "new mineralizing Africa …
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recipient governments - about Chinese development finance activities in Africa that can be updated and improved through crowd … Africa. Ground-truthing generally revealed close agreement between open-source data and answers to protocol questions from …
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remains highly uneven across the country. Most studies of service provision in Africa assume that politicians will target … provision from the start. Rather than assuming that ethnicity underlies service distribution in Africa, we argue that … councillors and their mayor helps to account for the variation in service provision across South Africa's municipalities. We test …
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. There are many opportunities to expand trade in services between South Africa and other African countries. Improvements in … urban planning, design, and governance are vital to create more productive and liveable cities. South Africa has many … capabilities to support urbanization in Africa. However, South African companies have been relatively unsuccessful at exporting …
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inequality in Ghana, Kenya, and South Africa. Conventionally measured inequality ranges from moderate (in Ghana) to extremely … high (in South Africa). Trying to tell one coherent story about African inequality, however, is difficult. The construction … statistics with those produced by ACEIR in Ghana, Kenya, and South Africa. The underlying country-specific income and expenditure …
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-term measures to stimulate investment. This paper tabulates the types of accelerated depreciation allowances in South Africa and … composition of tax depreciation and tax investment allowances for 2014-17. An estimate is offered of the cost to the treasury of …
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that economic policy uncertainty has a negative impact on firm-level investment in South Africa. Firms' investment … reduce their investment by much more than large firms in response to increased policy uncertainty. The relationship between …
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