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  • Reversing poverty : the role of institutions, state capacity and human empowerment 
    Blackmore, Sansia (University of Pretoria, 2020-07-31)
    The study explores the fundamental causes of poverty persistence, which remains a central challenge of the modern world. In theory, rising political participation operationalises checks on state predation and cultivates ...
  • Essays on Dynamic Fiscal Incidence Modelling in South Africa 
    Stofberg, Francois Jacobus (University of Pretoria, 2019)
    This thesis considers fiscal incidence modelling in South Africa. We use literature and empirical data to show that the bulk of government expenditure in South Africa is unproductive. For this reason, we suggest an ...
  • Taxation of the extractive industry in the context of contemporary international fiscal regimes : lessons for South Africa 
    Ramfol, Roshelle (University of Pretoria, 2019)
    At 2.5 trillion dollars, South Africa is endowed with the world’s most valuable mineral treasure. Simple logic suggests that the country’s comparative geological endowment confers an advantage as a preferred mineral ...
  • Financial Risk Protection, Decomposition and Inequality Analysis of Household Out-of-Pocket Health Payments 
    Setshegetso, Naomi (University of Pretoria, 2020)
    This research examines equity trends in financing health care through out-of-pocket payments (OOP) using South African Income and Expenditure Surveys for the periods 1995, 2000, 2005-06 and 2010-11. South Africa is ...
  • Quantifying household deleveraging following the 2007 South African financial cycle peak 
    Bosch, Adel (University of Pretoria, 2019)
    Many countries experienced a credit and housing boom over the period 2003 - 2007. This was followed by a burst in the US housing bubble, which contributed to the deep global economic and financial crisis which began in ...
  • Essays on the US Housing Market 
    Nyakabawo, Wendy V. (University of Pretoria, 2019)
    The rapid decline in housing prices of the United States (US), following a prolonged boom, is generally associated with the global economic and financial crisis of 2008-2009. Naturally, from a policy perspective, understanding ...
  • Assessing technical efficiency of provincial Health and education sectors in South Africa 
    Ngobeni, Victor (University of Pretoria, 2020-02-12)
    The study used 12 Data Envelopment Analysis models with six 2017/18 analytical variables. The mean technical efficiency scores for the health sector ranged from 35.7 to 87.2 per cent and the education sector’s average ...
  • Essays on unconventional monetary policy 
    Vermeulen, Cobus Cornelis (University of Pretoria, 2019)
    Following the Global Financial Crisis of 2007 { 2010, central banks around the world were forced into unprecedented policy interventions to stabilise asset markets and prevent the global nancial system from collapsing. ...
  • Die teorie en praktyk van die interindustrievloei-tegniek 
    Tusenius, Robert Rene (University of Pretoria, 1957)
    Die oorspronklike doel van hierdie studie wns die gee van 'n verhandeling oor die teorie en die praktyk van die interindustrievloei-tegniek en 'n empiriese toepassing van die tegniek op die ekonomiese stelsel van die ...
  • Essays on political economy using dynamic general equilibrium models 
    Stander, Lardo (University of Pretoria, 2019)
    This PhD thesis aims to look at four major issues in political economy and macroeconomics, namely, tax evasion, spirit of capitalism, globalisation and production structures involving delayed effects of inputs in dynamic ...
  • Essays on the determinants of income and wealth inequality in the United States 
    Chang, Shin (University of Pretoria, 2018)
    This study investigates the relevant factors that drive income and wealth inequality in the United States with the aim of facilitating a better understanding of the dynamic relationships between inequality and key macroeconomic ...
  • Emerging African multi-national corporations : trends and determinants 
    Sakr, Mustafa El Sayed Samir (University of Pretoria, 2018)
    Despite the recent attempts to address the evolution of EMNCs, limited research has been conducted to examine EAMNCs. Moreover, the importance of this investigation is increased as it may guide African governments in ...
  • Essays on monetary policy and banking 
    Loate, Tumisang Bertha (University of Pretoria, 2018)
    The size of the nancial sector in South Africa has grown signi cantly over the past fi fteen years to now almost three times the size of the economy. Parallel to that growth is the growth of the banking sector, speci ...
  • Structural unemployment, labour market dynamics and the transmission of monetary policy in South Africa 
    Dadam, Vincent (University of Pretoria, 2017)
    This thesis begins by raising the following question: what is the relationship between the labour market structure in South Africa and the ability of the monetary authority to keep control of macroeconomic dynamics? The ...
  • Assessing changes in the social determinants of health and health inequality 
    Omotoso, Kehinde Oluwaseun (University of Pretoria, 2017)
    This thesis broadly investigates the relative changes in socio-economic related health inequalities over the second decade of post-apartheid South Africa. This period is characterised by di erent policies and reforms, aimed ...
  • Property tax performance and potential in Brazil 
    Carvalho Junior, Pedro Humberto Bruno (University of Pretoria, 2017)
    Despite the growing demand for infrastructure and social services resulting from urbanization and decentralization, many urban local governments in developing countries are failing to generate sufficient own revenues to ...
  • On the impact of exchange rates misalignments on economic growth using homogenous emerging countries 
    Tipoy, Christian Kakese (University of Pretoria, 2017)
    This thesis analyzes the impact of exchange rates misalignment on economic growth and the transmission channels for a sample of homogeneous emerging economies. These countries are called homogeneous as they satisfy criteria ...
  • Essays on water resources and the Ugandan economy 
    Kilimani, Nicholas (University of Pretoria, 2015)
    This thesis analysed the link between water resources and the Ugandan economy. The study was motivated by the fact that Uganda is largely an agro-based economy. In addition, agricultural activity on which many socioeconomic ...
  • Essays on international capital flows and macroeconomic stability 
    Kavli, Haakon Northcraft (University of Pretoria, 2015)
    Global monetary policy, financial risk and risk aversion are important determinants of international capital flows. Capital flows may in turn cause expansion of credit and leverage in the recipient economy. This PhD ...
  • Reproductive Health and Labour Outcomes 
    Tshiswaka-Kashalala, Gauthier (University of Pretoria, 2014)
    This thesis formalizes the interaction between income and fertility outcomes using a fertility model taking account of mediation. Despite the diversity of studies concerned with the determinants of fertility, one consistent ...