This paper focuses on the importance data issues to the analysis of growth, poverty and economic inequality. We … introduce a number of major databases frequently used in applied research on growth, poverty and global and international …

and in the provinces of South Africa. Decomposition results for the Common Monetary Area reveal that the growth of …This paper aims to decompose the sources of growth in economies in the Southern African region's Common Monetary Area … from shifts in technology. Countries experiencing input-driven growth in the secondary sector, such as Namibia and Eswatini …

, an emission-decomposition exercise shows that scale effects are dominated by technique effects working towards a …