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(Taylor and Francis, 2024)Motivated by the need for transition toward cleaner and sustainable energy sources, this study delves into the relationship between institutional quality and South Africa’s renewable energy adoption. The objective is to ...
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(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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(Springer, 2023-09)The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), spearheaded by China, is anticipated to bolster trade, investment, and economic growth among participating countries to advance the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goal 7 through ...
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(Blackwell, 2007-09)The purpose of this paper is to analyse the causality between exports and GDP of Namibia and to evaluate the relationship of these variables for the period 1970 to 2005. Time-series econometric techniques (Granger causality ...
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(Blackwell, 2003-12)In a recent article in this journal, Fedderke and Vaze (2001:436-473) undertook an analysis of the extent and effects of trade liberalisation in South Africa during the 1990s. The study (hereafter referred to as the FV ...
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(Energy Research Insitute, University of Cape Town, 2013-03-20)Electricity generation, transmission and distribution in South Africa are handled almost exclusively by Eskom, a public utility established in 1923. According to Eskom, electricity production capacity in South Africa has ...
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(Energy Research Insitute, University of Cape Town, 2012-11)The aim of this paper was to quantify the external costs of mining and transporting coal to the Kusile coal-fired power station in eMalahleni. Monetary values were estimated for a number of impacts including its ...
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(AOSIS Open Journals, 2017-09)Coal-based electricity is an integral part of daily life in South Africa and globally. However, the use of coal for electricity generation carries a heavy cost for social and ecological systems that goes far beyond the ...
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(Elsevier, 2018-07)This study breaks down carbon emissions into six effects considering the current Top 23 countries group on renewable energies, afterwards divided into two different groups (the TOP countries in Europe and the remaining ...
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(Routledge, 2016-03)The Feldstein–Horioka (FH) puzzle, that is the strong correlation between saving and investment in a world where obstacles to capital mobility are limited, has been studied extensively since it was exposed in 1980. Even ...
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(Elsevier, 2023-08)Pronatalist subsidies often vary with birth order (parity). I study the effect of such subsidies on birth timing in a life-cycle model of fertility choice. In the model, births permanently reduce the rate of human capital ...
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(Elsevier, 2019-03)Biogas generated through anaerobic digestion of organic waste, offers unique benefits compared to other renewables, by addressing environmental concerns relating to organic wastes together with creating electricity generation ...
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(Elsevier, 2014-02)Given the persistence of systemic poverty in, most notably, the rural parts of South Africa, the question is whether the use of biodigesters as a source of energy offers potential solutions to some of the difficulties and ...
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(Emerald, 2012)PURPOSE – The purpose of this paper is to investigate how the South African Reverse Bank (SARB) sets monetary policy rate. DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH – Given the controversial debate on whether central banks should target ...
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(Elsevier, 2012-01)The purpose is to investigate how the European Central Bank (ECB) sets interest rates in the context of both linear and nonlinear policy reaction functions. It contributes to the current debate on central banks having ...
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(Elsevier, 2012-03)In this paper we investigate the role of financial development, or more widespread access to finance, in generating economic growth in four Latin American countries be- tween 1980 and 2007. The results, based on panel ...
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(World Scientific Publishing, 2023-03)We investigate the effects of financial development on income inequality for a global sample of countries between 1980 and 2019. The study contributes to the current literature by first, making use of a multifaceted index ...
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(Springer, 2009)We examine the impact of financial development on earnings inequality in Brazil in the 1980s and first half of the 1990s. The evidence—based initially on time-series, and then on the relatively novel panel time-series data ...
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(Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences University of Pretoria, 2006-03)This paper develops a short-term model of a small open financially repressed economy characterised by unorganised money markets, intermediate goods imports, capital mobility and flexible exchange rates. The analysis shows ...
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(Taylor & Francis, 2007-09)This paper analyzes the effects of financial liberalization on inflation. We develop an open economy monetary endogenous growth general equilibrium model, with financial intermediaries subjected to obligatory 'high' reserve ...
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