Research

Countries’ economic complexity, and the associated diversification and sophistication of their exports, is a key determinant of economic growth. Un...

This paper uses detailed firm transaction data on manufactured exports to analyse the dilution of the real exchange rate-export relationship in Sou...

This paper uses matched employer-employee data from South Africa to examine the extent to which technology transfers between firms through the hiri...

This paper investigates the effect of innovation on employment growth at the firm level in South Africa. Innovation is typically associated with be...

This working paper is the fourth in a series that forms part of the project ‘Southern Africa – Towards Inclusive Economic Development’, a three-yea...

Using comprehensive, anonymized tax administrative data for the 2008–14 period, we examine firm-level productivity in South Africa. Measures of fir...

In this paper, the energy and economic models used in the linked modelling approach for South Africa are further refined such that (i) links betwee...

In South Africa, the manufacturing sector—important for growth and employment creation—has shown declining growth, poor productivity performance, d...

Zimbabwe’s persistent economic challenges since the early 1990s have been largely attributed to unpopular political decisions at the expense of bui...

Supermarkets are strong catalysts to stimulate the growth and development of producers and suppliers of processed food and manufactured products in...

Increased intra-regional trade in southern Africa will have a positive impact on economic growth. However, this requires a shifting of loyalties fr...

We examine the extent to which two of Africa’s leading gold mining economies, Ghana and Tanzania, have adopted transformative local procurement pol...