Browsing Research Articles (Economics) by UP Author "Chitiga-Mabugu, Margaret"

Browsing Research Articles (Economics) by UP Author "Chitiga-Mabugu, Margaret"

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  • Constructing a greenhouse gas emissions inventory using energy balances : the case of South Africa for 1998 
    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 ...
  • The economic consequences of a fuel levy reform in South Africa 
    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 ...
  • Evaluating the impact of land redistribution : a CGE microsimulation application to Zimbabwe 
    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, ...
  • A gender-focused macro-micro analysis of the poverty impacts of trade liberalization in South Africa 
    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 ...
  • The general equilibrium effects of a productivity increase on the economy and gender in South Africa 
    Kinyondo, Godbertha Kokubanza; Chitiga-Mabugu, Margaret (Juta, 2009-09)
    This study utilises a computable general equilibrium model to examine the effects of economy-wide (SIM 1) and partial (SIM 2) productivity increases on the economy, gender employment, wages, income and welfare in South ...
  • The impact of an electricity generation tax on the South African economy 
    Seymore, Reyno; Adams, Philip D.; Chitiga-Mabugu, Margaret; Van Heerden, J.H. (Jan Horn), 1957-; Blignaut, James Nelson (Bureau for Economic Research and the Graduate School of Business,University of Stellenbosch, 2010-02)
    In the 2008 budget of the Minister of Finance, the South African Government proposed to impose a 2 cents/kilowatt-hour (c/kWh) tax on the sale of electricity generated from non-renewable sources; this tax is to be collected ...
  • The impact of an environmental tax on electricity generation in South Africa 
    Seymore, Reyno; Adams, Philip D.; Chitiga-Mabugu, Margaret; Van Heerden, J.H. (Jan Horn), 1957-; Blignaut, James Nelson (Bureau for Economic Research and the Graduate School of Business, University of Stellenbosch, 2010)
    In the 2008 budget of the Minister of Finance, the South African Government proposed to impose a 2 cents/kilowatt-hour (c/kWh) tax on the sale of electricity generated from non-renewable sources; this tax is to be collected ...
  • The impact of tariff reduction on poverty in Zimbabwe : a CGE top-down approach 
    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 ...
  • The impact of tariff removal on poverty in Zimbabwe : a computable general equilibrium microsimulation 
    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 ...
  • Is increased agricultural protection beneficial for South Africa? 
    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 ...
  • Just energy transition of South Africa in a post-COVID era 
    Bohlmann, Heinrich R.; Bohlmann, Jessika Andreina; Chitiga-Mabugu, Margaret; Inglesi-Lotz, Roula (MDPI, 2023-07-11)
    The impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic have sparked global debate over how green economic recovery may and should be, and if the pandemic has accelerated the present energy transition while assuring a just transition for ...
  • Oil prices and the South African economy : a macro–meso–micro analysis 
    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 ...
  • Redistributing environmental tax revenue to reduce poverty in South Africa : the cases of energy and water 
    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, ...
  • Trade openness and foreign direct investment in Africa 
    Kandiero, Tonia; Chitiga-Mabugu, Margaret (Juta, 2006-09)
    Africa's share of foreign direct investment (FDI) has lagged behind other regions in the world, despite a sharp increase in FDI inflows to the region in 2001. Factors contributing to this circumstance include perceptions ...
  • The welfare effects of reversed border tax adjustments as a remedy under unilateral environmental taxation : a South African case study 
    Seymore, Reyno; Chitiga-Mabugu, Margaret; Van Heerden, J.H. (Jan Horn), 1957- (Multi-Science Publishing, 2012)
    Border Tax Adjustments (BTAs) resurfaced recently in national policy debates as a possible measure to counter the anti-competitiveness effect of unilateral environmental taxes. There seems to be no consensus in the ...