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What sustains informality?: A study of the interactions between formal- and informal-sector firmsWe consider two vertical links between informal- and formal-sector firms and study their implications...
Informal sector Income distribution Supply and demandWorking Paper
Can mining promote industrialization?: A comparative analysis of policy frameworks in three Southern African countriesThis paper explores the potential to leverage large-scale mineral extraction in Botswana, Zambia, and Zimbabwe to foster mineral beneficiation and upstream industries...
Mineral industries Supply and demandWorking Paper
Modelling growth scenarios for biofuels in South Africa’s transport sectorSouth Africa has a nascent biofuels industry and emerging regulatory framework, and although water scarcity limits local supply potential, that of the southern African region appears substantial...
Economic biology Supply and demand TransportationWorking Paper
The expansion of regional supermarket chains: Changing models of retailing and the implications for local supplier capabilities in South Africa, Botswana, Zambia, and ZimbabweOver the past two decades, southern African countries have experienced rapid growth in the number and spread of supermarkets...
Regional economics Strategic planning Supply and demandWorking Paper
Income and price elasticities of demand in South Africa: An application of the linear expenditure systemThis paper investigates the expenditure patterns of South African households using detailed cross-sectional expenditure and price data...
Aeronautics Consumption Food supplyVideo
Regional Integration and the Role of Supermarkets - an interview with Reena das NairIn this interview, Reena das Nair of the Centre for Competition, Regulation and Economic Development (CCRED) provides information about research on supermarket value chains in Southern Africa. The focus is on supermarket chains from South Africa and...
Regional economics Strategic planning Supply and demandBlog
How Can Governments Better Respond to Global Food Price Fluctuations?
Much of UNU-WIDER’s research in the last few years was initiated under the 2010-13 work programme on the triple crisis of finance, food, and climate change. The financial crisis from 2008 onwards has received massive worldwide attention...
Economic policy Structural adjustment (Economic policy) Food securityJournal Article
Globalization and Smallholders: The Adoption, Diffusion, and Welfare Impact of Non-Traditional Export Crops in GuatemalaPart of Journal Special Issue Globalization, Poverty, and Inequality in Latin America
Agricultural innovations Globalization International tradeBook Chapter
Growth-oriented Macroeconomic Policies for Small-Island Economies: Lessons from SingaporeFrom the book: Vulnerability in Developing Countries
Economic development Fiscal policy Human capitalWorking Paper
Trade with China and India and Manufacturing Labour Demand in ArgentinaFor many in Latin America, the increasing participation of China and India in international markets is seen as a looming shadow of two ‘mighty giants’ on the region’s manufacturing sector...
Competition International trade Labour demandJournal Article
Macroeconomic Policies for Growth in Small Pacific Island EconomiesPart of Journal Special Issue Focus
Economic development Fiscal policy Human capitalWorking Paper
Globalization and Smallholders: The Adoption, Diffusion, and Welfare Impact of Non-traditional Export Crops in GuatemalaThis paper uses a duration analysis based on adoption data spanning over 25 years from six communities in the Central Highlands of Guatemala to explore how household characteristics and external trends play into both the adoption and diffusion proces...
Agricultural innovations Globalization International tradeWorking Paper
Macroeconomic Policies for Growth in Small Pacific Island EconomiesThis paper examines macroeconomic performance and policies in small Pacific island economies (SPIEs). These economies are highly prone to various supply shocks and face severe obstacles to development arising from their geography and demography...
Economic development Fiscal policy Human capitalWorking Paper
China's Business Cycles: Perspectives from an AD-AS ModelThis paper represents a first attempt to study China’s business cycles using a formal analytical framework, namely, a structural VAR model...
Business cycles Communist Fiscal policyBook Chapter
The EU's Everything But Arms Initiative and the Least-developed CountriesFrom the book: The WTO, Developing Countries and the Doha Development Agenda
Mathematical models (Equilibrium (Economics)) International trade Supply and demandWorking Paper
The EU's Everything But Arms Initiative and the Least-developed CountriesUsing a computable general equilibrium simulation model and partial equilibrium simulations, based on the SMART model, the paper attempts to assess the aggregate worldwide distribution of gains and losses of the EU’s Everything But Arms (EBA) i...
Mathematical models (Equilibrium (Economics)) International trade Supply and demand