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Does ICT benefit the poor? Evidence from South Africa

  • Year 2010
  • Organisation Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universitat; University of Exxex
  • Author(s) Stefan Klonner; Patrick J Nolen
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
Session 5A: Poverty and Household Welfare
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How did the great recession affect different types of workers? Evidence from seventeen middle-income countries

  • Year 2010
  • Organisation World Bank
  • Author(s) Yoonyoung Cho; David Newhouse
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
Session 4B: The Global Crisis and Poverty Outcomes
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Global economic crisis impacts on pensioners within selected areas of South africa

  • Year 2010
  • Organisation Cape Peninsula University of Technology
  • Author(s) Mpiana Kalula
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
Session 4B: the Global Crisis and Poverty Outcomes
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Fractional multinomial response models with an application to expenditure shares

  • Year 2010
  • Organisation University of Pretoria
  • Author(s) Steven F Koch
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
Session 4B: Global Crisis and Poverty
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What is driving the growth on informal firms in Africa

  • Year 2010
  • Organisation World Bank
  • Author(s) Louise Fox
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
Session 4A: Is Informal Normal in Low Income Countires? If So, What Does this Mean for Development Policy?
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Taking from the poor: The taxation of small informal firms in East Africa

  • Year 2010
  • Organisation World Bank
  • Author(s) Obert Pimhidzai
  • Countries and Regions Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (Comesa), East African Community (EAC)
Session 4A: Is Informal Normal in Low Income Countires? If So, What Does this Mean for Development Policy?
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Country case study for Nigeria on skills development for informal sector workers

  • Year 2010
  • Organisation World Bank
  • Author(s) Alberto Behar
  • Countries and Regions South Africa, Southern African Development Community (SADC)
Session 4A: Is Informal Normal in Low Income Countires? If So, What Does this Mean for Development Policy?
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Study of the size, composition and characteristics of the middle-class in South africa

  • Year 2010
  • Organisation University of KwaZulu-Natal
  • Author(s) Justin Visagie
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
Session 3B: Measuring Social and Education Progress
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Performance under the new matric curriculum still significant in predicting first-year academic success in economics?

  • Year 2010
  • Organisation University of Western Cape; University of Stellenbosch; University of the Western Cape; University of the Western Cape
  • Author(s) Zwakele Dlomo; Ada Jansen; Mariana Moses; Derek Yu
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
Session 3B: Measuring Social and Education Progress
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The changing dynamics of child grants in South Africa in the context of high adult mortality

  • Year 2010
  • Organisation SALDRU, University of Cape town
Session 3A: Social Grants, State Expenditure and Welfare Outcomes
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Finding the benefits: Evaluating the impact of the South African child support grant

  • Year 2010
  • Organisation Stellenbosch University
  • Author(s) Marisa Coetzee
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
Session 3A: Social Grants, State Expenditure and Welfare Outcomes
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The economic influence of infrastructural expenditure in South Africa: A multiplier and structural path analysis

  • Year 2010
  • Organisation University of Copenhagen; Human Sciences Research Council; Human Sciences Research Council
  • Author(s) Channing Arndt; Andres Garcia; Stewart Nganda
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
Session 3A: Social Grants, State Expenditure and Welfare Outcomes
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Inflation targeting under attack: Evidence from emerging market economies

  • Year 2010
  • Organisation University of Copenhagen; Human Sciences Research Council; Human Sciences Research Council
  • Author(s) Seedwell Hove; Albert Tounamama; Fulbert Tchanatchana
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
Session 2B: Inflation Dynamics
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Producer price rigidity in a small open economy: Evidence from South African PPI micro data

  • Year 2010
  • Organisation AMERU, University of the Witwatersrand
  • Author(s) Kenneth Creaner; Greg Farrell; Neil Rankin
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
Session 2B: Inflation Dynamics
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When the remedy is worse than the disease: Adjusting survey income data for price differential, with special reference to Mozambique

  • Year 2010
  • Organisation Stellenbosch University
  • Author(s) Carlos Maia; Servaas Van der Berg
  • Countries and Regions Mozambique
Session 2B: Inflation Dynamics
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Skills development and disempowerment: Unravelling workplace equity in trying economic times

  • Year 2010
  • Organisation MERSETA
  • Author(s) Salim Akoojee
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
Session 2A: Scarce Skills
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Choices and changes: FET colleges and the transition from school to work

  • Year 2010
  • Organisation Jet Educational Services
  • Author(s) Anthony Gewer
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
Session 2A: Scarce Skills
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An analysis of the skills requirements in the electricity value-chain

  • Year 2010
  • Organisation University of Pretoria
  • Author(s) Andrew Merrifield
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
Session 2A: Scarce Skills
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South Africas response to the worldwide recession

  • Year 2010
  • Organisation The Presidency; NALEDI
  • Author(s) Alan Hirsch; Rudi Dicks
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
Session 1B: The Financial Crisis: Global and Regional Impacts
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Trade contraction in the global crisis: employment and inequality effects in India and South africa

  • Year 2010
  • Organisation International Labour Office; American University; International labour Organisation
  • Author(s) Davis Kucera; Leanne Roncolato; Erik Von Uexkull
  • Countries and Regions India, South Africa
Session 1B: The Financial Crisis: Global and Regional Impacts
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The macro economic consequences of the crisis and the response or non-response by provincial government: A KwaZulu-Natal case study

  • Year 2010
  • Organisation KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Treasury
  • Author(s) Clive Coetzee
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
Session 1B: The Financial Crisis: Global and Regional Impacts
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Decision making in the financial investment sector

  • Year 2010
  • Organisation Member of Parliament
  • Author(s) Ben Turok
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
Session 1A: Financial Development and Economic Growth
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Financial development and economic growth in Latin America: Schumpeter in right

  • Year 2010
  • Organisation University of Pretoria
  • Author(s) Manoel Bittencourt
  • Countries and Regions Mercosur (Common Market of the South), South Africa
Session 1A: Financial Development and Economic Growth
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A comment on the South African Reserve Banks commitment to the liberalisation of exchange controls

  • Year 2010
  • Organisation University of the Witswatersrand; University of London; University of the Witwatersrand
  • Author(s) Samantha Ashman; Ben Fine; Susan Newman
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
Session 1A: Financial Development and Economic Growth
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Equity market valuation, systemic risk, and monetary policy

  • Year 2010
  • Organisation Vaal University of Technology; Purdue University Calumet
  • Author(s) Job Dubihlela; Pat Obi
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
Session 1A: Financial Development and Economic Growth
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Capital and Market access constraints in Land Reform projects: Three case studies from Mpumalanga

  • Year 2008
  • Author(s) Chris Williams, Niel van Zyl
The systematic failure of post-settlement support in South African land reform has been identified as a major contributing variable to the approximated 50 percent failure rate  of new land reform projects.  In spite of this dismal record, government increasingly finds itself under immense political pressure to speed up land reform…
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Testing for linkages in sectoral development: An SVAR-approach to South Africa

  • Year 2008
  • Organisation Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration
  • Author(s) Michael Wild, Oliver Schwank
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
South Africa has a peculiar industrial structure given its factor endowments: production is capital intensive in sectors and concentrated in capital intensive sectors despite an abundance of unskilled labour. Part of the reason for this phenomenon lies in the development process of South African industry: it grew around the mining…
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The extent of SADC trade protection and its effects on the least developing members of the region

  • Year 2008
  • Author(s) Mmatlou Kalaba
  • Countries and Regions Southern African Development Community (SADC)
The drive towards SADC trade liberalisation is a goal that is emphasised in most documents of the SADC Secretariat, including the protocol on trade and the regional indicative strategic development plan (RISDP). This trade liberalisation aims to deepen regional integration through increased intra-trade between SADC member states, which was to…
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Regulatory Principles in South Africa

  • Year 2008
  • Organisation Faculty of economic and management sciences, University of the Western Cape
  • Author(s) Douglas Blackmur
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
The trend towards the Regulatory State. It has been argued that: 'A fundamental driver of the demand for regulation in recent years has been increasing 'risk aversion' in many spheres of life. Regulation has come to be seen as a panacea for many of society's ills and as a means…
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Economic regulation of network industries

  • Year 2008
  • Author(s) Cornel Van Basten
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
South Africa is in its infancy regarding independent economic regulation of network utilities. Although economic regulation of public utilities have been exercised in South Africa for a number of years (usually by the line Government Department), the establishment of independent economic regulation had only emerged a little more than ten…
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