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This paper lays the foundation for the analysis of the macro- and socio-economic benefits of a transition in the power sector to be made using a linked energy-economy modelling framework called SATIMGE. SATIMGE is made...
June 2018
Macro-fiscal analysis
Climate and energy
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This study determines the extent to which broker opportunism (using the hidden commission charged by brokers as a proxy for opportunistic behaviour) in the tomato supply chain in Zambia is reduced by farmers’ access to...
June 2018
Climate and energy
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The aim of this study is to investigate whether households in an informal settlement, who receive one or more social grants, save a portion of their income, and what their savings behaviour is. Out of...
May 2018
Climate and energy
Working paper
The recent PIRLS report painted a dire picture of South Africa’s literacy: 80% of Grade 4 learners are unable to read for meaning. With a large body of research confirming how reading literacy holds predictive...
May 2018
Climate and energy
Working paper
Crop insurance is a sustainable risk management tool that farmers need for increasing the sustainability of their agricultural enterprises by reducing income risks. This paper reports on factors influencing farmers’ interest in purchasing crop insurance.
May 2018
Climate and energy
Working paper
This paper analyses responses from the City of Johannesburg survey on economic performance, competitiveness and the challenges faced, from over 300 firms. The study suggests that that a significant proportion of firms exhibited growth between...
May 2018
Macro-fiscal analysis
Working paper
The falling cost of renewable energy technologies globally is a key driver of the implementation of smallscale embedded generation in South Africa as an alternative to electricity from the national grid. The technology has disruptive...
May 2018
Climate and energy
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This paper describes South Africa’s implementation of Article 6 of the World Health Organization’s Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, price and tax measures to reduce the demand for tobacco. The current status of implementation was...
May 2018
Climate and energy
Working paper
This paper analyses the competitive trends of the South African citrus industry, making use of the relative trade advantage model to calculate such competitive trends over time. The data to measure competitive performance was obtained...
May 2018
Climate and energy
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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
According to the macroeconomic theory of aggregate demand, low real interest rates imply a low cost of borrowing for firms, which encourages them to increase the level of investment in the economy, and thus improve...
May 2018
Macro-fiscal analysis
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This paper makes use of the administrative panel data for the years 2011 to 2015 to explore whether there is a wage penalty for employees in the labour broker sector, examining both the base wage...
May 2018
Enterprise development
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This study examines the operation of monetary policy using quarterly data from 1994 through 2015 and the sub-period covering 2002–15, when monetary policy was formally defined by inflation targeting. The principal research question we address...
April 2018
Macro-fiscal analysis
Working paper
This paper seeks to synthesize a wide variety of work assessing the future of VRE and their potential for revolutionizing electricity generation, particularly in developing countries. As VRE technology matures and costs fall, focus shifts...
April 2018
Climate and energy
Working paper
This paper aims to enhance our understanding of the dynamics of innovation practice and technology absorption in South Africa at the firm level by estimating the returns to R&D expenditure in the manufacturing sector. This...
March 2018
Enterprise development
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Since the start of sharp electricity tariff increases in 2008, South African household demand for electricity has not been significantly affected. However, the combination of economic realities and ongoing electricity tariff increases will eventually compel...
March 2018
Enterprise development