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  • Progress on poverty in Africa : the importance of growth and inequality 
    Fosu, Augustin Kwasi (Oxford University Press, 2023-04-17)
    Employing World Bank data, this paper, first, historically examines Africa’s record on poverty incidence, spread and severity, as compared with other regions of the world, at the US$1.90 and US$3.20 per day (2011 PPP) ...
  • Progressivity of out-of-pocket payments and its determinants decomposed over time 
    Koch, Steven F.; Setshegetso, Naomi (Routledge, 2021)
    This study estimates progressivity of out-of-pocket (OOP) health payments and their determinants using South African Income and Expenditure Surveys. Concentration is decomposed to examine the effect of household determinants ...
  • Projecting the external health costs of a coal-fired power plant : the case of Kusile 
    Riekert, Johannes W.; Koch, Steven F. (Energy Research Insitute, University of Cape Town, 2012-11)
    We examine an important subset of the expected health costs associated with the commissioning of Kusile, a new coal-fired electricity generation plant in South Africa. The subset of health impacts focuses on sulphur ...
  • Property rights, institutions and choice of fuelwood source in rural Ethiopia 
    Beyene, Abebe Damte; Koch, Steven F. (Elsevier, 2013-05)
    This study examines the relationship between property rights, defined by land tenure security and the strength of local-level institutions, and household's preferences for fuelwood source. A multinomial regression model ...
  • Provision of public utilities : the Kenyan experience 
    Harmse, Chris; Jordaan, Andre Cillie; Van Rensburg, J.J. (South African Association for Public Administration and Management, 2004-09)
    The provision of public utilities in developing countries is both essential and controversial. The responsibility of providing these utilities generally lies at the door of the government, although different options of ...
  • Public money creation to maintain fundamental human rights during the COVID-19 pandemic 
    Chimowa, Takondwa; Hall, Stephen George; O’Hare, Bernadette (Harvard University Press, 2020-06)
    As governments around the world respond to the COVID-19 pandemic with a range of policies aimed at mitigating the economic fallout, we argue that low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) should prioritize public money ...
  • Purchasing power parity in the long run : an empirical re-evaluation of the South African evidence 
    De Wet, Theuns J. (Bureau for Economic Research and the Graduate School of Business, University of Stellenbosch, 2000)
    Purchasing Power Parity is a very important equilibrium concept in macroeconomics. Although the concept of purchasing power parity equilibrium is widely used in the academic, public and business sector, the actual existence ...
  • The quality of governance and education spending in Africa 
    Nyamongo, M.E. (Nyamongo Esman); Schoeman, N.J. (Nicolaas Johannes) (College of Economic and Management Sciences, University of South Africa, 2010)
    This study investigates the effects of the quality of governance, namely corruption, political instability and democracy, on the public budget allocation to education by using data for a panel of 28 African countries over ...
  • Quality of life index : measure of policy success? 
    Jordaan, Andre Cillie (South African Association for Public Administration and Management, 2001-09)
    The process of economic development can be seen as a process of expanding the capabilities of people. This process should include the notion of human development by means of capacity building and empowering the ...
  • Quantifying shifts in primary factor demand in the South African economy 
    Bohlmann, Heinrich R.; Breitenbach, M.C. (Marthinus) (Routledge, 2016-02)
    This article uses a dynamic CGE model to explain the persistence in the high levels of unemployment in the South African economy in spite of modest to relatively strong output growth. We make use of a historical simulation ...
  • Quantifying spillovers among regions 
    Gefang, Deborah; Hall, Stephen George; Tavlas, George S.; Wang, Yongli (Elsevier, 2024-02)
    The standard procedure for quantifying spillover effects of changes in economic fundamentals among separate regions (or countries) is to link the regions through predetermined weights – for example through fixed weighted ...
  • Quantifying the potential of restored natural capital to alleviate poverty and help conserve nature : a case study from South Africa 
    Blignaut, James Nelson; Moolman, Christina Elizabeth (Elsevier, 2006-09)
    Poverty and environmental degradation seem to be endemic in many of the former homeland territories of South Africa. The political legacy of Apartheid might have ceased, but the economic and environmental consequences ...
  • Quasi-experimental evidence on tobacco tax regressivity 
    Koch, Steven F. (Elsevier, 2018-01)
    Tobacco taxes are known to reduce tobacco consumption and to be regressive, such that tobacco control policy may have the perverse effect of further harming the poor. However, if tobacco consumption falls faster amongst ...
  • Race and energy poverty : evidence from African-American households 
    Dogan, Eyup; Madaleno, Mara; Inglesi-Lotz, Roula; Taskin, Dilvin (Elsevier, 2022-04)
    Even though energy poverty has been widely discussed in many countries, only a few studies attempt to understand the nexus of race and energy poverty. To fill the gap in the literature, this study analyses the effect of ...
  • Race and gender biases in student evaluations of teachers 
    Chisadza, Carolyn; Nicholls, Nicky; Yitbarek, Eleni (Elsevier, 2019-06)
    Student ratings of teaching (SETs) are vital for academic career trajectories of higher education lecturers. Although student bias against female lecturers is noted in previous studies, mostly in the developed world, the ...
  • Rare disaster risks and gold over 700 years : evidence from nonparametric quantile regressions 
    Balcilar, Mehmet; Gupta, Rangan; Nel, Jacobus (Elsevier, 2022-12)
    Using annual data on real gold returns and measures of rare disaster risks over the period of 1280–2016, we show the existence of nonlinearity and regime changes in the relationship between the two variables of concern, ...
  • Rare disaster risks and volatility of the term-structure of US Treasury Securities : the role of El Niño and La Niña events 
    Van Eyden, Renee; Gupta, Rangan; Nel, Jacobus; Bouri, Elie (Springer, 2022-04)
    The purpose of this paper is to determine the impact of rare disaster risks, captured by the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) cycle, on the volatility of Treasury securities of the United States (US) involving 1- to ...
  • Rational expectations and the effects of financial liberalization of price level and output 
    Gupta, Rangan (Juta Academic, 2007-03)
    This paper develops a generalized short-term model of a small open financially repressed economy, characterized by unorganized money markets, intermediate goods imports, capital mobility, flexible exchange rates and rational ...
  • A re-evaluation of the term spread as a leading indicator 
    Plakandaras, Vasilios; Gogas, Periklis; Papadimitriou, Theophilos; Gupta, Rangan (Elsevier, 2019-11)
    Forecasting the evolution path of macroeconomic variables has always been of keen interest to policy makers and market participants. A common tool used in the relevant forecasting literature is the term spread of Treasury ...
  • The reaction to globalisation - a case of the "true believer"? 
    Scholtz, F.J. (Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences, University of Pretoria, 2001-09)
    When the editorship started planning this special issue some 18 months ago, there were in excess of 700 titles on the topic of globalisation available on the website of Amazon.com. The decision to devote an entire issue ...