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Migration and urbanization in post-apartheid South Africa
Bakker, Jan David; Parsons, Christopher R.; Rauch, Ferdinand - 2019
Although Africa has experienced rapid urbanization in recent decades, we know little about the process of urbanization …, the authors study the effect of migration on urbanization in South Africa. While they find that on average there is no … populations. Overall, the evidence suggests that exogenous migration shocks can foster urbanization in the medium run …
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Promoting Green Urban Development in African Cities : eThekwini, South Africa Urban Environmental Profile
World Bank - 2016
The city of eThekwini or Durban has undergone a period of rapid urbanization that has contributed to the degradation of … green urban development in Africa: enhancing the relationship between urbanization, environmental assets and ecosystem … context, sets the background, and context of the study of Durban, providing an overview of the impacts of urbanization and …
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Promoting Green Urban Development in African Cities : Kampala, Uganda, Urban Environmental Profile
World Bank Group - 2015
The city of Kampala has undergone a period of rapid urbanization that has contributed to the degradation of the city … promoting green urban development in Africa: enhancing the relationship between urbanization, environmental assets, and … the background and context for Kampala, providing an overview of the impacts of rapid urbanization and climate change …
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From oil to cities : Nigeria's next transformation
Weltbankgruppe - 2016
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Managing South Africa's exposure to Eskom : how to evaluate the credit risk from the sovereign guarantees?
Bachmair, Fritz Florian; Aslan, Cigdem; Maseko, Mkhulu - 2019
The South African government offers various support mechanisms to support Eskom, the state-owned electric utility, and the independent power producers in providing low-cost electricity, including credit and payment guarantees. Guarantees constitute contingent liabilities to the government and...
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Product market competition, productivity, and jobs : the case of South Africa
Dauda, Seidu; Nyman, Sara; Cassim, Aalia - 2019
The degree of concentration and market power in South African markets has been the topic of much policy discussion. However, there has been little evidence on what drives market power and the impact of the degree of competition in South African markets on economic outcomes. This paper improves...
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Why South Africa is cheap for the rich and expensive for the poor : reconsidering the Balassa-Samuelson effect
Dadam, Vincent; Hanusch, Marek; Viegi, Nicola - 2019
This paper investigates cross-sectoral productivity differentials in South African industry and their distributional consequences. The analysis shows that typically, traded sectors have experienced low productivity growth over the past decade, while skill intensive service sectors have had...
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Long-run impacts of increasing tobacco taxes : evidence from South Africa
Fuchs, Alan; Del Carmen, Giselle; Mukong, Alfred Kechia - 2018
Tobacco taxes are considered an effective policy tool to reduce tobacco consumption and produce long-run benefits that outweigh the costs associated with a price increase. Through this policy, some of the most adverse effects and economic costs of smoking can be reduced, including shorter life...
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The South Africa Agriculture Public Expenditure Review
Liebenberg, Frikkie - 2015
This South African Agricultural Public Expenditure Review (AgPer) is one of a series of similar studies undertaken in several countries in Sub-Saharan Africa under the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Program (CAADP) of the African Union's (AU) New Partnership for Africa's...
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Managing Contingent Liabilities in Public-Private Partnerships : Practice in Australia, Chile, and South Africa
Irwin, Timothy - 2010
Contingent liabilities create management problems for governments. They have a cost, but judging what the cost is and whether it is worth incurring is difficult. Except in the case of contingent liabilities created by simple guarantees of debt, governments usually can incur contingent...
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