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In the media
SA-TIED researcher, Ludvig Wier, has featured in multiple South African news outlets explaining new research findings from the programme. Wier was invited to speak to anchors from South Africa’s national news channels, SABC and eNCA...
3 January 2019
Working paper
There is evidence from developed countries that technical change affects not only the employment intensity of production, but also the occupational composition of employment. The use of artificial intelligence, automation, and robots has changed the...
March 2020
Macro-fiscal analysis
Working paper
This paper estimates the distribution of personal wealth in South Africa by combining tax microdata, household surveys, and macroeconomic balance sheet statistics. We systematically compare estimates of the wealth distribution obtained by direct measurement of...
April 2020
Labour market and inequality
Working paper
This paper explores how Southern Africa can leverage its mineral resources to support growth and industrialization. It considers the aggregate and spatial effects of transport infrastructure improvements, and the relative benefits of financing these investments...
May 2020
Phase 1 regional growth
In the media
A recent working paper from the SA-TIED programme’s body of new research has been featured in the largest business weekly in South Africa. The Financial Mail ’s feature is headlined: “Reserve Bank vindicated — the...
3 July 2019
Working paper
Mozambique has been historically prone to natural disasters due to its geographical location, but over the past 20 years, the intensity and frequency of droughts, floods and cyclones has increased, negatively affecting the agriculture sector...
September 2020
Climate and energy
In the media
As South Africa commemorates Women’s Month, SA-TIED celebrates the women behind the programme. Three women from SA-TIED recently joined Phemelo Motene on her SAfm radio show. During Women’s Month we will share their profiles and...
August 2020
Working paper
This paper empirically examines South Africa’s fiscal sustainability through a Markov-switching model which utilizes quarterly datasets for the period from 1960 to 2019. The results show that public debt responds positively, demonstrating a sustainable fiscal...
November 2020
Macro-fiscal analysis
Blog
The theme for women’s month in South Africa – Generation Equality: Realizing Women's Rights for an Equal Future – could not be more aligned with the policy objectives of the research produced under the SA-TIED...
August 2021
Working paper
This paper aims to decompose the sources of growth in economies in the Southern African region’s Common Monetary Area and in the provinces of South Africa.
February 2021
Macro-fiscal analysis
Technical workshop
6 Feb 2018 / 09:00
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28 Jun 2018 / 17:00
On 26–28 June, a 3-day training on SAMOD (South African tax-benefit microsimulation model) will take place with the participation of NT and SARS staff. The event is organized by researchers from Southern African Social Policy...
Working paper
This study estimates the policy distortions faced by agricultural producers. In addition to an aggregate distortion estimation, a disaggregated approach to measuring distortions to individual agents’ incentives in a vertical value chain is seminally applied...
May 2018
Climate and energy
Working paper
Analyses for water infrastructure investment planning must consider the interdependencies of local and regional water, energy, food, and environmental systems. This highly complex decision problem requires decision support tools to objectively determine the multi-sector economic...
May 2021
Climate and energy
Conference
2 Jun 2019 / 09:30
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18:15
SA-TIED researchers present in the 50th Biannual Plenary and Research Workshop convened by the African Economic Research Consortium in Cape Town, South Africa from 2-6 June. The theme of the conference is "Growing with debt...
Working paper
Using firm-level tax administrative data from 2010 to 2017, we study the impact of Chinese import penetration on the performances of manufacturing firms in South Africa, and wheth-er firms investing in capabilities development are more...
September 2019
Enterprise development
Working paper
Longitudinal surveys can give insight into economic mobility, which allows us to understand how markers of (dis)advantage are consequential in determining material conditions in the present, and how these markers structure economic opportunity over time...
March, 2019
Labour market and inequality