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Size matters: measuring the effects of inequality and growth shocksUnderstanding the relationship between income inequality and economic growth is of utmost importance to economists and social scientists...
Inequality Growth Bayesian estimationWorking Paper
Regional and subregional analyses of macroeconomic policy strategies for growth and equality in Southern AfricaWe investigate the relevance of beta (β, absolute and conditional) and sigma (σ) convergence in the economies of the Common Monetary Area of Southern Africa and in the provinces of the Republic of South Africa using panel data, allowing an...
Convergence (Economics) Growth InequalityWorking Paper
Special economic zones and transnational zones as tools for Southern Africa’s growth: Lessons from international best practicesThe paper evaluates strategies for developing successful special economic zones and transnational zones for Southern African countries to spur growth and employment...
Special Economic Zones Spatial industrial policy GrowthWorking Paper
Effects of productivity growth on domestic savings across countries: Disentangling the roles of trend and cycleResource mobilization continues to be an important policy challenge for developing economies, raising questions as to what determines differences in saving behaviour across countries...
Saving Productivity GrowthResearch Brief
Tackling poverty and inequality in Southern Africa: Transnational growth corridors as a solutionComprehensive harmonization is crucial to eliminate inefficiencies that hamper free movement of goods and services in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region...
Growth growth corridors intra-regional tradeWorking Paper
Redistribution, inequality, and growth revisited: Comment on 'Redistribution, inequality, and growth: new evidence'An influential paper by Berg et al., ‘Redistribution, inequality, and growth: new evidence’, uses the SWIID data to examine the impact of inequality and redistribution on growth in both developing and developed countries...
Growth Redistribution InequalityWorking Paper
Fast tracking the SADC integration agenda to unlock regional collaboration gains along growth corridors in Southern AfricaDespite more than two decades of economic integration efforts, levels of spatial development inequality remain high within the Southern African Development Community (SADC)...
Growth growth corridors intra-regional tradeWorking Paper
COVID-19: macroeconomic dimensions in the developing worldThe COVID-19 pandemic represents an unprecedented global crisis. The task for economic policy is to help keep people alive, enterprises afloat, and households out of poverty. The pandemic has macroeconomic dimensions...
commodities COVID-19 DebtsJournal Article
The Determinants of Redistribution around the WorldThis study re-examines the determinants of redistribution in light of improved data and methods relative to earlier literature...
Cross-country analysis Growth InequalityResearch Brief
Journal Article
The individual poverty incidence of growthTHIS ARTICLE IS ON EARLY VIEW. The canonical approach to analyse the poverty impact of growth is based on the comparison of poverty before and after growth...
income mobility Poverty Dynamics Pro-poorAnnual Lecture
Policy Brief
Unequal growth in Mozambique and the regionThere is an increasing interest in the analysis of economic inequalities in least developed countries...
Poverty Growth Unequal growthWorking Paper
A proposal for a new universal development commitmentMost Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development countries have accepted, in principle at least, the 50-year-old commitment of contributing 0.7 per cent of gross national income to supporting the development of countries in the Global Sout...
Global inequality Poverty alleviation Growth