Welcome to Ersa
Economic Research Southern Africa is a research programme which is being funded by the National Treasury of South Africa and is hosted at the University of Cape Town in the School of Economics.
Workshops and Conferences
National Treasury/ERSA Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) Modelling Intermediate Course
We are happy to announce that Prof Rob Davies, Mr Dirk van Seventer and Dr Delfin Go will present an ERSA/National Treasury workshop on intermediate CGE modelling which will cover the following topics: Revision of the standard IFPRI CGE model, Dynamic CGE Modelling, Imperfect Competition and CGE Modelling. The aim of this workshop is to increase CGE modelling capacity within the region and to provide for networking opportunities amongst participants. The workshop will be held over the course of 3.5 days (May 25-28) at the National Treasury and followed by a policy seminar (May 28-29). Places are limited and access to the course is at the discretion of the course organizers. More information
Papers for Download
National Treasury Symposium Economy-wide Analysis and Economic Policy Programme.
Session 1 - Aid, Service Delivery, and the Millennium Development Goals in an Economy-wide Framework.
Session 2 - Formal-informal economy linkages and unemployment in South Africa.
Session 3 - Wage Subsidy and Labor Market Flexibility
in South Africa.
Session 4 - Tax Policy to Reduce Carbon Emissions In South Africa.
Session 5 - Agglomeration, Growth and Regional Equity: An Analysis of Agriculture- versus Urban-led Development in Uganda.
Session 7 - Biofuels, Poverty, and Growth: A Computable General Equilibrium Analysis of Mozambique.
Session 8 - Macro-Micro Feedback Links of Water Management in South Africa.
Blogging Away
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Latest News
ERSA Prizewinners 2009 - WITS University
Latest Publications
Annual Report
ERSA Activity Report February 2007 - March 2008
Working Papers
Agricultural Risk Management through Community-Based Wildlife Conservation in Rural Zimbabwe
Edwin Muchapondwa and Thomas Sterner
Isolating a Measure of Inflation Expectations for the South African Financial Market Using Forward Interest Rates
Monique Reid
The Empirics of Banking Regulation
Fulbert Tchana Tchana
Policy Papers
The impact of tobacco advertising bans on consumption - a cross country approach including developing countries
Evan Blecher, Policy Paper 13
Research Briefs
ERSA Policy Brief No. 5. - April 2009: Who would eat more with a food voucher programme in South Africa?
In the Media
South Africa’s interest rate policy: Prudence demands a Bold Move
Industrial economies are experiencing a very fast and deep worsening of economic conditions. Attempts to stop the rot with massive injections of fiscal resources and easy money have been largely ineffective. Since the middle of October, the crisis has been transmitting rapidly to emerging countries via stock markets, commodity prices and demand for exports. Read more
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