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The information content of the yield spread about future inflation in South Africa
Ntshakala, Manqoba; Harris, Laurence - 2018
The proposition that inflation expectations can be extracted as inflation predictions from the government bond yield …
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Understanding and characterizing the services sector in South Africa : an overview
Bhorat, Haroon; Steenkamp, François; Rooney, Christopher; … - 2016
The South African services sector is large and growing. This coupled with declining employment shares in manufacturing … patterns in services reveal a segmentation that is characterized by high-productivity, high-wage services, low …-productivity, low-wage services, and government services. There has been sustained growth in services exports in the post-1994 period …
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Air transport in Africa : a portrait of capacity and competition in various market segments
Bofinger, Heinrich C. - 2017
relatively small size, still faces the challenges of high concentration in services and lack of competition, with only a few … dominant airlines providing international services within the continent. In addition, Africa faces challenges in safety …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011599184
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The fruit of the vine? : an augmented endowments-inequality hypothesis and the rise of an elite in the Cape Colony
Fourie, Johan; Fintel, Dieter von - 2010
The arrival of European settlers at the Cape in 1652 marked the beginning of what would become an extremely unequal society. Comparative analysis reveals that certain endowments exist in societies that experience a 'persistence of inequality'. This paper shows that the emphasis on endowments may...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008662851
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Halving poverty in South Africa : growth and distributional aspects ; distributional implications of halving poverty in South Africa
Tregenna, Fiona - 2011
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009310292
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An uncertainty approach to modelling climate change risk in South Africa
Cullis, James; Alton, Theresa; Arndt, Channing; … - 2015
This study represents the first attempt at an integrated approach to assessing the potential impacts of climate change on the national economy of South Africa via a number of (but not necessarily all) impact channels. The study focuses on outcomes by about 2050. The results show the multiple...
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Modelling growth scenarios for biofuels in South Africa's transport sector
Stone, Adrian; Henley, Giles; Maseela, Tiisetso - 2015
South Africa has a nascent biofuels industry and emerging regulatory framework, and although water scarcity limits local supply potential, that of the southern African region appears substantial. This paper describes the results and modelling approach of an assessment of potential biofuel demand...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011419609
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Compilation of annual mini SAMs for South Africa 1993-2013 in current and constant prices
Seventer, Dirk van - 2015
We describe the construction of a series of mini Social Accounting Matrices (SAMs) for the period 1993-2013 in current and constant prices. A key feature of these SAMs is that they are all in exactly the same format across years as well as in terms of current and constant prices. In order to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011428016
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Development of the animal feed to poultry value chain across Botswana, South Africa, and Zimbabwe
Ncube, Phumzile; Roberts, Simon; Zengeni, Tatenda - 2016
The animal feed to poultry value chain in the southern African region has seen rapid demand growth owing to increases in urbanization. This growth has been accompanied by the increase in co-ordinated investments by large, predominantly South African, firms across the region. We examine the...
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National policies and regional integration in the South African Development Community
Hartzenberg, Trudy; Kalenga, Paul - 2015
This paper focuses on the relationship between regional integration in the Southern African Development Community and national policies. Review of trade, industrial, agricultural, labour, and related policy areas, indicates that national policies can and do run counter to the regional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011284924