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Impact of internal in- migration on income inequality in receiving areas: A district level study of South Africa

Umakrishnan Kollamparambil
The impact of internal migration on regional income inequality of the receiving areas has hitherto gone largely unstudied. This dearth of literature is especially surprising because income inequality and in-migration into urban centres of growth are two issues that many developing economies are...
Oct 2016
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The Impact of Basic and Social Infrastructure Investment on Economic Growth and Social Development in South Africa’s Urban and Rural Municipalities

Henk Gnade, Derick Blaauw and Talita Greyling
Basic and social infrastructure investment can assist in addressing widespread inequality and divided societies by promoting economic growth and social development. The aim of this study is to determine whether basic and social infrastructures investment differently affect economic growth and...
Oct 2016
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Inflation, growth and employment in South Africa: Trends and trade-offs

C. Vermeulen
It is often publicly contended that overly strict application of inflation targeting stifles employment growth in South Africa, with the Phillips curve often cited as seemingly authoritative reference. This paper revisits this debate and argues that the Phillips curve has often been misinterpreted...
Sep 2015
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Trade Liberalization, Rival Exporters and Reallocation of Production: An Analysis of Indian Manufacturing

Lawrence Edwards and Asha Sundaram
Employing a difference-in-difference estimation technique on firm-level data on Indian exporters, we show that the removal of US textile and apparel quotas was associated with a relative increase in sales of products where India was previously quota-restricted, but a relative decrease in sales of...
Jun 2015
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Lifestyle and Income-related Inequality in Health in South Africa

Alfred Kechia Mukong, Corne Van Walbeek & Hana Ross
Evidence suggests that lifestyle factors may explain the income-related inequality in self-reported health. This paper expands this literature by examining the contribution of smoking and alcohol consumption, incorporating more objective measures of health directly associated with these lifestyle...
Apr 2017
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Financial Reforms and the Finance – Growth Relationship in the Southern African Development Community (SADC)

Alex Bara, Gift Mugano & Pierre Le Roux
This study seeks to establish the casual relationship between financial development and economic growth in the SADC region, factoring-in the role of financial reforms. Utilising Generalised Methods of Moments (GMM) and Panel Fixed Effects estimations, the study established that financial...
Jun 2016
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Estimating South Africa’s Output Gap Potential Growth Rate

Johannes W. Fedderke and Daniel K Mengisteab
This paper estimates the potential output of the South African economy using several univariate filters as well as taking a production function approach. Our aim is to compare the sensitivity of the results to the different methodologies and different measurements of output. We find that the...
Feb 2016
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Underemployment in South Africa

Rochelle Beukes, Tina Fransman, Simba Murozvi and Derek Yu
With the introduction of the Quarterly Labour Force Survey (QLFS) since 2008, a newly derived variable, namely underemployed, has become available. This variable is derived according to the “time-related” approach (i.e. those who are employed, but would like to work longer hours and are available...
Jan 2016
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Will Technological Change Save the World? The Rebound Effect in International Transfers of Technology

Mare Sarr and Tim Swanson
Technological change and its transfer to developing countries is often portrayed by policy-makers as a critical part of the solution to a resource problem such as climate change, based on the assumption that the transfer of resource-conserving technologies to developing countries will result in...
Feb 2017
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The impact of micro hydroelectricity on household welfare indicators

Mary Karumba & Edwin Muchapondwa
The use of small scale off-grid renewable energy for rural electrification is now seen as part of the sustainable energy solutions. The expectations from such small scale investment is that it can meet basic energy needs of a household and subsequently improve some aspects of the household welfare...
Jan 2017
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