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Valuing User Preferences for Improvements in Public Nature Trails Around the Sundays River Estuary, Eastern Cape, South Africa

Deborah E. Lee, Stephen G. Hosking and Mario du Preez

Many valuations have been made of changes to in-estuary attributes but few have been made of out-of-estuary attributes. From a recreation perspective, an important type of out-of-estuary attribute is the availability of public paths by which to access attractive features of the estuary environment...

Jun 2013
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Do Monetary, Fiscal and Financial Institutions Really Matter for Inflation Targeting in Emerging Market Economies?

Seedwell Hove, Albert Touna Mama and Fulbert Tchana Tchana

Most emerging market economies (EMEs) which have implemented inflation targeting (IT) have continued to experience large, frequent and sometimes persistent inflation target misses. At the same time these countries had reformed their institutional structures when implementing IT. In this paper we...

Sep 2011
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An Economy-Wide Evaluation of New Power Generation in South Africa: The Case of Kusile and Medupi

J. A.Bohlmann., H. R. Bohlmann, and R. Inglesi-Lotz

The South African economy has suffered over the past decade due to a lack of adequate electricity supply. With two new coal-fired power stations, Kusile and Medupi, scheduled to come online over a six year period (2014-2019), their additional generation capacity is expected to restore electricity...

Jun 2015
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Social capital as an engine of growth: Multisectoral modelling and implications

Youyou Baende Bofota, Raouf Boucekkine and Alain Pholo Bala

We propose a multisector endogenous growth model incorporating social capital. Social capital only serves as an input in the production of human capital and it involves a cost in terms of the final good. We show that in contrast to existing alternative specifications, this setting assures that...

Oct 2012
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A Panel Ordered Response Model for Sovereign Credit ratings in Africa

Marinda Pretorius and Ilse Botha

In recent times there has been an increased focus on the myriad investment opportunites in Africa. According to Pricewater Coopers (2011:1) “the continent is home to some of the world’s fastest-growing economies and offer the highest risk-adjusted returns on foreign direct investment among emerging...

Sep 2014
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Do Capital Requirements Affect Cost of Intermediation? Evidence from a Panel of South African Banks

Andrew Maredza

Since the 2007 sub-prime financial crisis, world bank capital ratios have increased. In this paper, we investigate the impact of increased bank capital requirements introduced under the Basel Accord framework on the costs of intermediation. We attempt to answer this central question by running...

Aug 2015
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“I would rather have a decent job”: Barriers preventing street waste pickers from improving their socioeconomic conditions

Kotie Viljoen, Phillip Blaauw and Rinie Schenck

As a result of the high levels of unemployment in South Africa many unskilled people are forced to resort to a variety of income-generating activities in the informal economy. The activity of collecting and selling recyclables presents virtually no barriers to entry, making it a viable option. Very...

Feb 2015
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Profiling Sectoral Risks of Foreign Direct Investment in Africa

Henri Bezuidenhout, Zahné Coetzee and Carike Claassen

Despite Africa’s exceptional FDI performance during the past decade, the majority of FDI inflows have been directed to a few selected countries. As investors face many risks when investing in developing countries, it is argued that risk perception plays a vital role in the FDI inflows into Africa...

Jan 2014
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Output Decomposition in the Presence of Input Quality Effects: A Stochastic Frontier Approach

Yasmina Rim Limam, Stephen M. Miller and Giampaolo Garzarelli

How do physical capital accumulation and Total Factor Productivity (TFP) individually add to economic growth? We approach this question from the perspective of the quality of both labor and physical capital, namely human capital and the age of physical capital. We build a unique dataset by...

Jun 2016
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“Sometimes you don't make enough to buy food” - an analysis of South African street waste pickers’ income

Viljoen JMM, Blaauw PF & Schenck CJ

In this paper we use income data of 873 street waste pickers in South Africa to assess whether their income is sufficient to make a living and to identify the possible factors that may influence their income. The results can assist policy makers to make informed decisions in designing and...

Apr 2016
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