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Subsidized labour and firmsEmploying the difference-in-differences technique, this study examines the impact of the Employment Tax Incentive programme on a large sample of South African firms from 2011 to 2016. It finds that programme firms expanded investments by 4.8 per cent...
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Risk and investmentThis paper explores the impact of exposure to uninsured risks on the investment decisions of farmers. We distinguish between households’ perceived exposure to uninsured risk, measured as past exposure to deviations in average rainfall levels, and the...
Policy Brief
Industries without smokestacksOur research shows that structural change in Africa is relying on a new set of economic activities, called ‘industries without smokestacks’, created by recent technological changes and a changing global market place. Adopting a broad concept of...
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The effects of land titling in TanzaniaWe use household survey data to investigate the effects of formal, private property rights to agricultural land on agricultural investment, land valuation and access to credit in Tanzania. Results show that while there are no detectable effects of...
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The tipping pointWhile much research has been done on the economic impacts of load-shedding in South Africa, fewer studies have focused on the effects of the rapidly rising electricity tariffs. The issue of tariff increases has now become even more critical, with...
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Industries without SmokestacksThis is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. By 2030 more than three quarters...
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Industries without smokestacks and structural transformation in AfricaPart of Book Industries without Smokestacks
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Telecommunication and ICT-based services tradePart of Book Industries without Smokestacks
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Doing business in a deals worldThe World Bank’s Doing Business reports have evoked an intense policy debate about whether countries should simplify regulatory rules in order to stimulate investment and growth, or make them more stringent in order to achieve public policy...
Journal Article
The effects of corporate taxes on small firmsWe study the impact of corporate taxes on firm-level investments and business activity by exploiting a 6 percentage-point reduction in the corporate tax rate in 2012–2014 in Finland. We use detailed administrative data and a difference-in-differences...
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The asymmetric impact of economic policy uncertainty on firm-level investment in South AfricaThis paper uses firm-level data and a news-based measure of economic policy uncertainty to provide empirical evidence that economic policy uncertainty has a negative impact on firm-level investment in South Africa. Firms’ investment decisions in...
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Boosting mineral revenues in ZambiaZambia has changed its mineral tax regime repeatedly during the past decades in a bid to raise mineral revenue, but with only modest success. This paper looks at what the country needs to do to create a mining fiscal regime that could sustain...
Journal Article
Tenurial security and agricultural investmentPart of Journal Special Issue Article Introduction to understanding agricultural development and change
Journal Article
Shocks and agricultural investmentPart of Journal Special Issue Understanding agricultural development and change
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