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Petrol price regulation in South Africa: Is it meeting its intended objectives?The South African liquid fuels industry is a significant part of the economy. Historically, government policy focused on import substitution industrialization to support industry margins...
Prices South Africa DeregulationBook Chapter
Capital account liberalization and managementFrom the book: Resetting the International Monetary (Non)System
Accounting Capital Financial institutionsWorking Paper
A 2012 Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) for South AfricaThis paper documents the construction of a South African Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) for the year 2012...
AccountingWorking Paper
Capital Account Liberalization and ManagementThis paper reviews the history and controversies associated with capital account management...
Accounting Capital Financial institutions, InternationalResearch Brief
Policy processes and the global food price crisis 2007-08The recent food price crisis and the responses of the policy makers in developing countries provide an unprecedented opportunity to analyse the policy processes in these countries...
Accounting Aeronautics AgricultureWorking Paper
African Growth Miracle or Statistical Tragedy?: Interpreting Trends in the Data Over the Past Two DecadesThis paper reviews the current problems of national accounting in Sub-Saharan Africa. With the current uneven application of methods and availability of data, any ranking of countries according to gross domestic product levels is misleading...
Accounting Economic development Economic growthBlog
Ghana’s Oil Resources Toward Economic Growth and Human Development
Robert Darko Osei As the country’s oil production shifts into gear, Ghana’s new status as a middle-income country is bound to see a reduction in official development assistance (ODA) in the medium to long term...
Accounting Capital Economic assistance and foreign aidBlog
Who Captures Value in Global Supply Chains?: The Case of Nokia's N95 SmartphoneJyrki Ali-Yrkkö, Petri Rouvinen, Timo Seppälä, Pekka Ylä-Anttila Available statistics biases the true picture of the current stage of globalization, which is characterized by widespread outsourcing and offshoring...
Accounting Globalization Industrial managementBook Chapter
Monitoring and Evaluation Reform under Changing Aid ModalitiesFrom the book: Foreign Aid for Development
Accounting Economic assistance and foreign aid Government accountabilityWorking Paper
Monitoring and Evaluation Reform under Changing Aid Modalities: Seeking the Middle Ground in Aid-Dependent Low-Income CountriesThis paper grew out of our bewilderment with the insouciance with which some in the donor community seem ready to abandon accounting for the use of aid...
Accounting Economic assistance and foreign aid Government accountabilityBlog
Standards, Codes and Pension Flows
by Helmut Reisen The case for mutual benefits arising from the global diversification of portfolios holds well for funded retirement savings...
Accounting Financial institutions Institutional economics