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Increased intra-regional trade in southern Africa will have a positive impact on economic growth. However, this requires a shifting of loyalties from the national to the regional. Tension between the goals of long-term regional development...
August 2019
Phase 1 regional growth
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We examine the extent to which two of Africa’s leading gold mining economies, Ghana and Tanzania, have adopted transformative local procurement policies to enhance backward linkages from the minerals sector. We assess the impact that...
November, 2019
Phase 1 regional growth
Working paper
This study seeks to quantify South Africa's maize export potential to non-GM maize markets with the aim of establishing whether there are opportunities for non-GM maize production expansion as well as economic benefits for farmers...
October 2019
Climate and energy
Working paper
The South African economy is generally understood to be characterised by high levels of product market concentration and high firm markups. This paper reviews the existing literature and discusses what can be learnt from new...
October 2019
Labour market and inequality
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This study explores the potential for South Africa to become an engine for intraregional trade and industrial development by linking other Southern African countries to its global value chains and, in the process, improving its...
October 2019
Phase 1 regional growth
Working paper
Examining the economy-wide consequences of South Africa following a similar trajectory of labour market polarization to the rest of the world requires an appropriate database for an economy-wide policy analysis framework. This paper describes how...
September 2019
Macro-fiscal analysis
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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
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A sharp increase in the number of immigrants in South Africa has raised questions about the impact of immigration on the labour market. Whether or not immigrants can speak English—the primary language of business in...
September 2019
Labour market and inequality
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Eswatini’s agricultural and industrial sectors have over the years undergone an evolution as a result of wage employment. This has altered the gender division of agricultural labour. Where previously the nature of farming was gender-specific...
September 2019
Climate and energy
Working paper
South Africa has consistently performed poorly on international mathematics tests, but there has been a lack of recent data on primary school mathematics achievement. South Africa’s participation at Grade 5 level in the 2015 Trends...
July 2019
Labour market and inequality
Working paper
The research proposes a general approach to assessing and accurately quantifying fiscal obligations and the state’s contingent liabilities that arise from financing infrastructure projects through public-private partnerships (PPPs). It includes a method for assessing the...
July 2019
Macro-fiscal analysis
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In recent decades, the impact of South African foreign direct investment in Africa has been captured by research and policy. This paper investigates linkages and spillover effects of South African foreign direct investment in Botswana...
July 2019
Phase 1 regional growth
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Southern African countries—mainly Zambia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo—account for around a seventh of global production of copper. In the 2010s, they imported over a third of the associated capital goods and components...
July 2019
Phase 1 regional growth
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The aim of this study is twofold. First, it assesses the full South African national policy landscape pertaining to the food system in order to understand policy alignment and coherence across and within sectors. Second...
July 2019
Labour market and inequality
Working paper
Employing the difference-in-differences technique, this study examines the impact of the Employment Tax Incentive programme on a large sample of South African firms from 2011 to 2016. It finds that programme firms expanded investments by...
July 2019
Public revenue
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Traditionally, analysts of the South African labour market have used household survey data to describe earnings and employment in the post-Apartheid period. More recently, administrative data from the South African Revenue Service has been made...
May 2019
Labour market and inequality