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Browsing Economic and Management Sciences by UP Author "Breitenbach, M.C. (Marthinus)"
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Zerihun, Mulatu Fekadu; Breitenbach, M.C. (Marthinus); Iyke, Bernard Njindan (Routledge, 2020)In recent years, exchange rates of the BRICS countries have all experienced periods of high volatility. Thus far, no study has simultaneously compared the volatility of the BRICS currencies and analyzed the dependence and ...
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Meyer, G.N.; Breitenbach, M.C. (Marthinus); Kekana, R.D. (Robert Dipitseng) (Blackwell, 2008-12)This paper investigates two alternative roads running parallel to one another; one being a double-carriageway national road that was tolled 4 years ago and the other being an inter-city single-carriageway road. The purpose ...
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Breitenbach, M.C. (Marthinus); Fenyes, T.I. (Tamas Imre); Meyer, Nicolaas G.; Louw, Daniel B. (Common Ground, 2008)The elephant population in the Kruger Trans-frontier Park is currently seen by many nature conservationists as beyond sustainable levels. Wild-life supporters are of the view that the elephant population should be sustained. ...
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Meyer, Nicolaas G.; Breitenbach, M.C. (Marthinus); Fenyes, T.I. (Tamas Imre); Jooste, A. (Economic Society of South Africa, 2007-12)This paper quantifies the role of agriculture in the South African economy. This is done within the context of, inter alia, food security, agriculture’s contribution to gross domestic product (GDP), economic linkages ...
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Meyer, Nicolaas G.; Breitenbach, M.C. (Marthinus); Fenyes, T.I. (Tamas Imre); Jooste, Alta (University of Pretoria, Department of Economics, 2009-02)This paper informs government policy insofar as it relates to the agricultural and rural de- velopment sectors and infrastructure investment within these sectors. The paper first quantifies the role of agriculture in the ...
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Breitenbach, M.C. (Marthinus); Peta, R.N. (UNISA School of Management Sciences, 2001-01)New labour laws that include domestic workers have been introduced. A preliminary study attempted to determine how effective the implementation of the new labour legislation was in altering conditions of employment in this ...
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Breitenbach, M.C. (Marthinus); Zerihun, Mulatu Fekadu; Kasongo, Axel T. (Adonis and Abbey Publishers, 2020)This study empirically tests the long-run relationship between real exchange rate and real interest rate (RERI) differentials using quarterly panel data over the period 1993- 2018 employing cointegration methods for a panel ...
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Tipoy, Christian Kakese; Breitenbach, M.C. (Marthinus); Zerihun, Mulatu Fekadu (University of Piraeus, 2016)We compute the exchange rate misalignment for a set of emerging economies between 1980 and 2013 using the behavioural equilibrium exchange rate definition. The real equilibrium exchange rate is constructed using a parsimonious ...
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Ngobeni, Victor; Aye, Goodness Chioma; Breitenbach, M.C. (Marthinus) (Adonis and Abbey, 2023-03)In South Africa, 12 230 191 or 95 per cent of learners are registered in primary and secondary public schools presided over by the nine provinces. The provincial education spending annually constitutes approximately 40 ...
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Tipoy, Christian K.; Breitenbach, M.C. (Marthinus); Zerihun, Mulatu F. (De Gruyter, 2018-04)The importance of exchange rate in an economy can be seen in the various policies implemented to manage its level and evolution on a daily basis. A large body of literature has analyzed the impact of exchange rate, or ...
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Tipoy, Christian Kakese; Breitenbach, M.C. (Marthinus); Zerihun, Mulatu F. (Cogent OA, 2018-05-17)Despite the large body of work that exists on the impact of exchange rate undervaluation on economic growth, only a mere literature focuses on the potential transmission mechanisms. There are authors who consider the ...
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Zerihun, Mulatu Fekadu; Breitenbach, M.C. (Marthinus); Kemegue, Francis (Emerald, 2016-10)PURPOSE : This paper explores the possibilities for policy coordination in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) as well as real effective exchange rate (REER) stability as a prerequisite towards sensible ...
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Udeagha, Maxwell Chukwudi; Breitenbach, M.C. (Marthinus) (Springer, 2023-01)The extant literature has produced mixed evidence on the relationship between fnancial development and ecological sustainability. This work addresses this conundrum by investigating fnancial development’s direct and ...
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Breitenbach, M.C. (Marthinus); Ngobeni, Victor; Aye, Goodness Chioma (Frontiers Media, 2021-04-29)The scale of impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on society and the economy globally provides a strong incentive to thoroughly analyze the efficiency of healthcare systems in dealing with the current pandemic and to obtain ...
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Globalisation’s ugly stepsister : estimating some economic impacts of localisation in South Africa Breitenbach, M.C. (Marthinus); Slabbert, T.J.C. (Tielman Johannes Christian) (Common Ground, 2008)There is growing concern that globalisation is unable to address unemployment and alleviate poverty sufficiently to achieve the targets of the Millennium Development Goals. Increasing numbers of development economists and ...
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Zerihun, Mulatu Fekadu; Breitenbach, M.C. (Marthinus) (Springer, 2018-05)In this paper we investigate the likelihood of a proposed monetary union in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) from the view point of the generalized purchasing power parity (GPPP) hypothesis and optimum ...
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Meyer, Nicolaas G.; Breitenbach, M.C. (Marthinus) (Agricultural Economics Association of South Africa, 2004-03)This paper uses one of four possible areas of strategic market research, namely Trademaps2, to analyse the South African market potential for deciduous fruit. It isolates the apple industry to illustrate the application ...
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Breitenbach, M.C. (Marthinus); Meyer, N.G. (Routledge, 2000-09)A Partial Equilibrium (PE) model is developed to model fertiliser use in the grain crop and oilseed sectors to assess the impact of changes in the physical and economic environment on production and fertiliser use. Since ...
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Zerihun, Mulatu F.; Breitenbach, M.C. (Marthinus); Kemegue, Francis M. (Elsevier, 2016-08)In this paper two nonlinearity tests are employed: the nonparametric test developed by Brock, Dechert and Scheinkman - known as the BDS test and the Fourier stationarity test. The BDS non-linearity test detects whether ...
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On the asymmetric effects of trade openness on CO2 emissions in SADC with a nonlinear ARDL approach Udeagha, Maxwell Chukwudi; Breitenbach, M.C. (Marthinus) (Springer, 2023-01)In this study, the expected asymmetric relationship between trade openness and CO2 emissions is investigated for the Southern African Development Community (SADC). We make use of a nonlinear autoregressive distributed lag ...
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