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The effect of fiscal drag on income distribution and work incentives: A microsimulation analysis on selected African countriesAlthough the effect of fiscal drag is well studied in the industrialized world, empirical evidence from developing economies remains limited...
Inflation Income tax Fiscal dragIn the media
SA-TIED working paper featured in the Financial MailA recent working paper from the SA-TIED programme ’s body of new research has been featured in the largest business weekly in South Africa. The Financial Mail’s feature is headlined: “ Reserve Bank vindicated — the critics...
Inflation Monetary policy South AfricaWorking Paper
The information content of the yield spread about future inflation in South AfricaThe proposition that inflation expectations can be extracted as inflation predictions from the government bond yield curve has been tested, with partially positive results, using data from the United States and European countries...
Rational expectations Inflation Monetary policyJournal Article
Effects of food price shocks on child malnutrition: The Mozambican experience 2008/2009A propitiously timed household survey carried out in Mozambique over the period 2008/2009 permits us to study the relationship between shifts in food prices and child nutrition status in a low income setting...
Children Food industry and trade InflationBook Chapter
Poverty, Inequality, and Prices in Post-Apartheid South AfricaFrom the book: Growth and Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa
Equality and inequality Inflation MacroeconomicsResearch Brief
Burkina Faso – growth without poverty reductionBurkina Faso is a landlocked country in West Africa, poor in natural resources, and with low levels of human development. Its economy remains agricultural and focused on food crops and cotton production...
Agriculture Equality and inequality Food securityResearch Brief
The impact of the 2007-08 food price crisis in BrazilThe impact of the 2007–08 food price crisis in Brazil was relatively subdued compared with what took place in many other developing countries...
Agriculture Food industry and trade InflationJournal Article
Transmission of World Prices to the Vietnamese EconomyInternational economic integration has been a central policy goal for the Vietnam government since the doi moi reform was initiated in 1986. We explore the Vietnamese increasing integration into the world market and bouts of high inflation...
Economic integration Inflation PricesWorking Paper
Poverty, Inequality, and Prices in Post-Apartheid South AfricaPost-apartheid poverty and inequality trends have been the subject of intensive analysis, yet relatively little attention has been devoted to the impact of differential price movements on the measurement of poverty and inequality...
Equality and inequality Inflation MacroeconomicsBook Chapter
The Political Economy of Food Price Policy in IndiaFrom the book: Food Price Policy in an Era of Market Instability
Agriculture Food security InflationProject
Macro-economic management (M-EM)Theme: Transformation
This project explores how macroeconomics of development is evolving; what the policy priorities are as the global economy undergoes transformation (with more countries moving from low- to middle- income status); the impact of global economic...
Macroeconomics Income distribution InflationWorking Paper
The Political Economy of Food Price Policy: the Case Study of IndiaIndia did not experience any food price spikes during 2007–08 when global food prices erupted. It was partly due to India’s ban on exports of wheat and common rice...
Agriculture Food security InflationWorking Paper
Inflation and Financial Development: Evidence from BrazilWe examine the impact of inflation on financial development in Brazil and the data available permit us to cover the period between 1985 and 2002...
Economic development Equality and inequality Financial institutionsWorking Paper
Education, Financial Institutions, Inflation and GrowthOur paper investigates the unexplored impact of education on inflation and of this relationship on economic growth...
Econometric models (Economic development) Education Financial institutionsJournal Article
El Tramo Corto de la Estructura a Plazo como Predictor de Expectativas de la Actividad Económica en ColombiaPart of Journal Special Issue Symposium on Spatial Inequality in Latin America
Inflation Interest rate Monetary policy