The relationship between crime and unemployment has a long history in social science and remains a central point of debate for politicians today. In this paper, the objective is to establish whether youth unemployment has a causal effect on murder cases in KwaZulu-Natal; a province in South...

The sluggish and sometimes negative growth in sub-Saharan Africa has defined the objectives of most studies seeking to explain the sources of its slow growth. I contribute to this inquiry by estimating how state fragility influences the effect of exchange rate misalignment on economic growth....

Literature on trade and wage disparities has gained prominence since the mid-90s following the push for trade liberalization across the globe. Despite the 26 years of empirical research, however, questions of whether trade closes or widens the wage gap remain relevant today, particularly in...

The rise in global trade volumes since the early 90s has been welcomed by many under the notion that trade helps countries edge closer to their economic potential. A concerning observation, however, is that while Asia, Latin America, and Europe seem to have witnessed a discernible rise in per...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to establish the empirical link between real exchange rate (RER) undervaluation and sectoral growth in South Africa between 1984 and 2014. Design/methodology/approach: The study employs a dynamic panel data approach estimated by the system generalised...

Purpose: The purpose is to establish the impact of trade on manufacturing employment in South Africa. Design/methodology/approach: Two techniques, the Pooled Mean Group (PMG) and the Dynamic Common Correlated Effects (DCCE), are applied on a panel dataset comprising 26 three-digit manufacturing...

The sluggish and sometimes negative growth in sub-Saharan Africa has defined the objectives of most studies seeking to explain the sources of its slow growth. I contribute to this inquiry by estimating how state fragility influences the effect of exchange rate misalignment on economic growth....