Purpose - This study evaluates the impact of government social protection interventions on households' welfare in South Africa. Design/methodology/approach - The study uses survey data comprising 393 observations and the multinomial logistic regression technique to analyse the effect of...

This paper analyses the interes-rate decision-making behaviour of the South African Reserve Bank (SARB) since the of the adoption of the Inflation Targeting Monetary Policy Framework (ITMPF)1. The general method of moments (GMM) technique is used to model hybrid Taylor type rules, employing...

Using monthly data from 1960 through to January 2010, this study employs the generalized autoregressive conditional heteroskedastic (GARCH) and GARCH-M (mean) methodologies to estimate the impact of Inflation Targeting (IT) on inflation uncertainty as well as to study whether an increase in...

Purpose: The primary purpose of the study is to analyse the asymmetric effects of public debt on economic growth, using secondary data over the period 1980–2018 in South Africa. Design/methodology/approach: This study estimated a Smooth Transition Regression (STAR) and Nonlinear...