Submission of Working Papers . . .

1. Economic Growth
• Growth & infrastructural investment
• Growth & foreign direct investment
• Savings & investment
• Growth & human capital
• Growth & market efficiency
• The role of the informal economy
2. International Integration of the South African economy
3. Social Expenditure and its Impact
4. Labour Market Analysis
5. Tax Policy
6. Data Quality Issues
7. Policy Analysis

1. ERSA will accept submission of complete Working Papers that have not already appeared in another Working Paper series. Such submissions will be subject to peer review.
2. Authors may be requested to supply data and do-files, attached to their Working Paper submissions to ERSA. However the confidentiality of such data will be ensured.
3. On acceptance of a submission, the paper will appear as an ERSA Working or Policy Paper in return for a payment of R5000.
4. Where the paper is subsequently published in a peer reviewed journal an additional payment may be made on the following scale:
• SA recognised journals – an additional R5000,
• ISI ranked journals – from 200-100 an additional R20000,
• ISI ranking from 100 – 30 an additional R40000,
• ISI top 30 an additional R70000.
5. The ISI ranking will be on the total citations criteria in the Economics subject Category.
6. The latest available on line ISI ranking will be utilised in assessing the journal.
7. It is incumbent on authors to notify ERSA of the publication of the article in a relevant journal. For final payment a hard copy of the final publication is required as proof.
8. Financial support from ERSA is to be acknowledged in all presentations of research material to emerge from this project including in the final paper. Payment of the final amount is conditional on such acknowledgment.
9. Copyright responsibilities vest in the author of the paper.