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Updating Poverty Estimates at Frequent Intervals in the Absence of Consumption Data : Methods and Illustration with Reference to a Middle-Income Country
Dang, Hai-Anh - 2020
Obtaining consistent estimates on poverty over time as well as monitoring poverty trends on a timely basis is a … formal framework for survey-to-survey poverty imputation in an attempt to overcome these obstacles, and to elevate the … and the Unemployment and Employment Survey in Jordan are quite encouraging, with imputation-based poverty estimates …
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Poverty and Shared Prosperity Implications of Deep Integration in Eastern and Southern Africa
Balistreri, Edward J. - 2017
business services. The paper assesses the poverty and shared prosperity impacts of deep integration to reduce these three types … in the macroeconomic variables that impact poverty and shared prosperity. The model estimates are used in the Global … Income Distribution Dynamics microsimulation model to obtain assessments of the changes in the poverty headcount and shared …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012969265
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How Much Labor Do South African Exports Contain?
Calì, Massimiliano - 2017
Like many emerging economies, South Africa has identified exports as an engine for more inclusive, job-intensive growth. However, employment growth did not follow the substantial export growth that South Africa experienced in the 2000s. This paper uses a newly developed World Bank database --...
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A Bit Far? Geography, International Economic Agreements, and Foreign Direct Investment : Evidence from Emerging Markets
Gomez-Mera, Laura - 2019
How do international economic agreements influence the investment patterns of firms from emerging economies? This paper studies the ways in which bilateral investment treaties and preferential trade agreements interact with geographic and cultural distance to influence firms' investment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012901103
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Firm Dynamics, Job Outcomes, and Productivity : South African Formal Businesses, 2010-14
Aterido, Reyes - 2019
The formal private sector has a key role to play in fostering growth and reducing unemployment in South Africa--strengthening its performance is therefore critical. This paper looks at firm behaviour, firm entry and exit, job outcomes, and productivity dynamics using firm-level administrative...
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Migration and Urbanization in Post-Apartheid South Africa
Bakker, Jan - 2019
Although Africa has experienced rapid urbanization in recent decades, we know little about the process of urbanization across the continent. The paper exploits a natural experiment, the abolition of South African pass laws, to explore how exogenous population shocks affect the spatial...
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Managing South Africa's Exposure to Eskom : How to Evaluate the Credit Risk from the Sovereign Guarantees?
Bachmair, Fritz Florian - 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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Resource Rents, Coercion, and Local Development : Evidence from Post-Apartheid South Africa
Bastos, Paulo - 2018
This paper examines how the dismantling of coercive institutions associated with the end of apartheid in South Africa in 1994 affected the distribution of rents from natural resource exports. It identifies the interplay between coercive institutions and natural resource rents as an important...
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Why South Africa is Cheap for the Rich and Expensive for the Poor : Reconsidering the Balassa-Samuelson Effect
Dadam, Vincent - 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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Assessing Urban Policies Using a Simulation Model with Formal and Informal Housing : Application to Cape Town, South Africa
Pfeiffer, Basile Fabrice - 2019
Building on a two-dimensional discrete version of the standard urban economics land-use model, this paper presents a tractable urban land-use simulation model that is adapted to developing country cities, where formal and informal housing submarkets coexist. The dynamic closed-city framework...
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