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Browsing Research Articles (Economics) by Author "Mabugu, Ramos"
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Blignaut, James Nelson; Chitiga-Mabugu, Margaret; Mabugu, Ramos
(Energy Research Insitute, University of Cape Town, 2005-08)
This paper discusses the procedures and results of
constructing a greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions
inventory for South Africa, using the official national
energy balance for 1998. In doing so, the paper
offers a snapshot ...
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Mabugu, Ramos; Chitiga-Mabugu, Margaret; Amusa, Hammed
(Juta, 2009-09)
This paper assesses the economic effects of a hypothetical fuel levy imposed by South African provinces. The welfare effects of increasing the fuel levy by 10 per cent are negative but very small. Similarly, the marginal ...
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Chitiga-Mabugu, Margaret; Mabugu, Ramos
(Oxford University Press, 2008-08)
Zimbabwe has recently gone through a widely criticised land reform process. The country has suffered immensely as a result of this badly orchestrated reform process. Yet land reform can potentially increase average incomes, ...
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Cockburn, John; Fofana, Ismael; Decaluwe, Bernard; Mabugu, Ramos; Chitiga-Mabugu, Margaret
(Elsevier, 2007)
Despite the general presumption in favor of trade liberalization, the question of how to implement it in a way to ensure equitable income distribution and sustainable poverty alleviation in developing countries is at the ...
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Chitiga-Mabugu, Margaret; Mabugu, Ramos
(Juta, 2005-03)
This paper uses a relatively new approach to quantify the effects of trade liberalisation on poverty. It relies on the combination of a standard, social accounting, matrix-based, computable general equilibrium model and ...
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Chitiga-Mabugu, Margaret; Mabugu, Ramos; Kandiero, Tonia
(Taylor & Francis, 2007-08)
The paper uses a microsimulation computable general equilibrium (CGE) model to study the impact on poverty of a complete removal of tariffs in Zimbabwe. The model incorporates 14,006 households derived from the 1995 Poverty ...
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Mabugu, Ramos; Chitiga-Mabugu, Margaret
(Elsevier, 2009-01)
Using a top down computable general equilibrium microsimulation model of South Africa, this paper explores the impact on household well being of an increase in agricultural protection. This issue is of broader relevance ...
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Fofana, Ismael; Chitiga-Mabugu, Margaret; Mabugu, Ramos
(Elsevier, 2009-12)
Three levels of analysis are used to track the channels by which South Africa and its people are
impacted by an increase of oil prices, namely the macro-economic level, the meso-economic level and the micro-economic/household ...
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Van Heerden, J.H. (Jan Horn), 1957-; Blignaut, James Nelson; Chitiga-Mabugu, Margaret; Gerlagh, Reyer; Hess, Sebastiaan; Tol, Richard S.J.; Horridge, Mark; Mabugu, Ramos; De Wit, M.P. (Martinus Petrus); Letsoalo, Anthony
(Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences University of Pretoria, 2006-12)
South Africa, as an upper middle-income, resource-intensive developing country with an open economy, has to find innovative ways to combat poverty, promote economic growth and reduce the intensity of resource use, ...