OVERVIEW. - Economic policy in South Africa-past, present and future / Haroon Bhorat, Alan Hirsch, Ravi Kanbur and Mthuli Ncube --. - PART 1: THE ECONOMICS OF POST-APARTHEID SOUTH AFRICA. - Twenty years of economic policymaking-putting people first / Trevor Manuel --. - South Africa's growth...

Wage subsidies served as a dominant labour market policy response around the world to mitigate job losses in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. However, no causal evidence of their effects exists for developing countries. We use unique panel labour force survey data and exploit a temporary...

In response to COVID-19 most governments used some form of lockdown policy to manage the pandemic. This required making iterative policy decisions in a rapidly changing epidemiological environment resulting in varying levels of lockdown stringency over time. While studies estimating the labour...

Frequent electricity outages threaten to impede the benefits of expanded access achieved by many developing countries in recent decades. A large literature documents these negative effects, however almost none consider labour market effects. This paper merges labour force survey microdata with...