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This study examines barriers to entry in the South African retail banking informed by Capitec's experiences as an entrant. In some ways Capitec's experience is exceptional. It surged ahead early attempts to bank the excluded from banks such as Ubank (former Teba Bank) and the Mzansi initiative....
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The paper investigates the economic effects of major product market reforms in some of the historically most protected non-manufacturing industries. It relies on a unique mapping between new annual data on reform shocks and sector-level outcomes for five network industries (electricity and gas,...
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Historically South Africa has favoured incumbents/national champions over rivalry (competition) in the … telecommunications sector. However, the importance of competition has become more apparent with each new development in the sector. Given … the changes in this dynamic sector it is important to evaluate progress on regulating for competition and the obstacles to …
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This paper studies the macroeconomic effects and sequencing of (LMRs) and product (PMRs) market reforms in Morocco. It finds that introducing LMRs and PMRs simultaneously would add about 2.5 percentage points (pp) of GDP growth and reduce unemployment by about 2.2 pp after five years. If...
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