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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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Thursday, 29 April 2010

Examining South-South Trade Flows and Market Access Conditions: A Case Study of the India, Brazil and South Africa Development Initiative

  • Year 2010
  • Organisation TIPS
  • Author(s) Tsitsi Effie Mutambara
This paper examines the pattern of trade between IBSA countries for the period 2001-2008. We find that trade between the countries has been on the increase. After the IBSA initiative was established in 2003, each country recorded a significant growth in its trade with other IBSA countries in 2004, leading…
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Tuesday, 09 March 2010

Trade Diversion and Trade Creation: An Augmented Gravity Model Study for South Africa

  • Year 2010
  • Organisation TIPS
  • Author(s) Patrick Kanda; Andre Jordaan
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
This study involved the determination and analysis of trade potential for the South African pulp and paper industry using a gravity model approach. The pulp and paper sector was identified by the Department of Trade and Industry amongst four other lead sectors to enhance economic growth through the Accelerated and…
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Tuesday, 09 March 2010

The Determination and Analysis of Trade Potential for the South African Pulp and Paper Industry using a Gravity Model Approach

  • Year 2010
  • Organisation TIPS
  • Author(s) Adele Breytenbach, Andre Jordaan
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
This paper involved the determination and analysis of trade potential for the South African pulp and paper industry using a gravity model approach. The pulp and paper sector was identified by the Department of Trade and Industry amongst four other lead sectors to enhance economic growth through the Accelerated and Shared Growth…
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Monday, 22 February 2010

An Empirical Assessment of the Impact of Trade Liberalisation on Employment in South Africa

  • Year 2010
  • Organisation TIPS
  • Author(s) Evans K. Chinembiri
This study seeks to model the effects of trade on employment in South Africa in a Labour Demand framework. The study uses aggregated data, as opposed to a number of studies that have used either factor content or growth accounting approaches. The paper specifically seeks to determine the extent to…
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Published in SADC Trade Development
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Wednesday, 10 February 2010

Working Paper 1-2010: Trade and Climate Change: The Environment from Developmental and Economic Perspective in Southern African Development Community (SADC)

  • Year 2010
  • Organisation TIPS
  • Author(s) G.L. Jonas Capôco
There is an increased recognition that actions to address climate change and the environment are intimately linked to economic growth and sustainable development goals and needs. Actions to promote increased resilience to climate change impacts and a lower greenhouse gas (GHG) emission economy in Southern African Development Community (SADC) fall…
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Sunday, 17 January 2010

The Impact of SADC Trade on Energy Use

  • Year 2009
  • Organisation TIPS
  • Author(s) Marcel Kohler
  • Countries and Regions Southern African Development Community (SADC)
Trade patterns change as a result of the international specialisation of production and the increased integration of world markets. This is especially evident in small open economies such as the countries that make up the SADC region. In 2000, the share of SADC industrial production that was exported stood at 12%;…
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Sunday, 17 January 2010

The Impact of Mode IV on Trade in Goods in the SADC Region: The Case of South Africa

  • Year 2009
  • Organisation TIPS
  • Author(s) Albert Makochekanwa
  • Countries and Regions South Africa, Southern African Development Community (SADC)
Information on the impact of immigration on a host country's trade with particular reference to the African continent and the SADC region remains scant, if indeed it is ever available. This study seeks to fill this gap with an analysis of data. More specifically, the main objective of this study is…
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Friday, 18 December 2009

Clothing traders in Gauteng: Motivations, barriers and macroeconomic linkages

  • Year 2009
  • Organisation TIPS
  • Author(s) The Corporate Strategy and Industrial Development Research Programme (CSID); School of Economics and Business Sciences, University of Witwatersrand
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
Street trading is the most common type of informal self-employment activity in South Africa. Traders sell a range of products such as fruits and vegetables, cooked food, new and used clothing, cosmetics, footwear, dvds, “public” telephone services and mobile phone accessories. Most traders operate from stalls or tables in market…
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Tuesday, 27 October 2009

Contribution to Trade Policy Review - Overview of Africa and SADC Trade 2006-2008

  • Year 2009
  • Organisation TIPS
  • Countries and Regions Africa
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Tuesday, 27 October 2009

Contribution to Trade Policy Review - Overview of South Africa's Trade 2006-2008

  • Year 2009
  • Organisation TIPS
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
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Tuesday, 27 October 2009

Trade Policy and Trade Flow Analysis- SADC Regional integration: What role have bilateral trade agreements played in promoting intra-regional trade?

  • Year 2009
  • Organisation Commonwealth Secretariat ‘Hub & Spokes’ Project
  • Author(s) James Maringwa
  • Countries and Regions Southern African Development Community (SADC)
Member countries of the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) engaged in a number of bilateral trade liberalisation agreements and initiatives from as way back as the 1950s, the main objective being to increase bilateral trade flows through deeper opening and access of regional markets. Southern African countries saw these ‘country…
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Tuesday, 06 October 2009

Working Paper 6-2009: Circular Migration and Employment in Southern Africa

  • Year 2009
  • Organisation TIPS
  • Author(s) Renato Johnsson Núñez
  • Countries and Regions Southern African Development Community (SADC)
This paper proposes that non-temporary circular migration creates and sustains 'circular migration flows', which are the outcome of the continuous interaction between sending and receiving countries that is created and sustained by migration and by transnational networks. Circular migration generates both pecuniary and non-pecuniary flows which are conducive to enterprise…
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Friday, 10 July 2009

The 2007/8 Food Crisis: The Case of Maize and Maize Taxation in Southern Africa

  • Year 2009
  • Organisation TIPS, BIDPA; Trade and Pro-Poor Growth Thematic Working Group
  • Author(s) Roman Grynberg;Maseddi Motswapong
  • Countries and Regions South Africa, Southern Africa Customs Union (SACU), Southern African Development Community (SADC)
Maize is the most important staple cereal product consumed in the Southern African region. The purpose of this paper is to examine the origins of the global 2007/8 food price crisis and the impact this had on the trade in maize within the SACU customs union as well as to…
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Friday, 26 June 2009

Economic Policy in Turbulent Times

  • Year 2009
  • Organisation TIPS
  • Author(s) Michael Parusel; Nicola Viegi
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
This paper employs the Bernanke-Gertler-Gilchrist "financial accelerator" model to study current economic conditions in South Africa. Given the turbulent financial market conditions we investigate the optimal monetary policy response as well as the potential role fiscal policy might play. As typical in the literature, we find that monetary policy should…
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Published in TIPS Research Grant Papers
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Monday, 01 June 2009

Review of the Eastern Cape’s Siyakhula/Massive maize project

  • Year 2009
  • Organisation TIPS
  • Author(s) Norma Tregurtha
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
Agriculture plays a unique and multifaceted role in the South African economy. While it contributes less than three percent to the country’s GDP, it provides almost 10 percent of the country’s formal sector employment. The sector has, according to all measures, relatively large linkage effects with the rest of the…
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Published in Second Economy Strategy Project
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