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Presentations - Growth and development policy - new data, new approaches, and new evidence
Available presentation slides from the conference. Presentations are sorted by session.
Day one
Plenary – Policies for equitable growth: the South African economy
Duncan Pieterse | Policies for equitable growth: New data and new approaches |
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Parallel 1A – Insights from SARS administrative data
Carli Bezuidenhout and Marianne Matthee | Labour demand and wage distribution: the case of South African manufacturing exporters |
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Kezia Lilenstein and Francois Steenkamp | Firm-level determinants of wages in the formal sector |
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Carol Newman | Resource misallocation and total factor productivity: manufacturing firms in South Africa |
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Parallel 1B – Value chains 1: Routes to market in southern Africa: supermarkets and intraregional transport
Reena das Nair | The internationalization of supermarkets and the nature of competitive rivalry in retailing in Southern Africa |
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Francis Ziba and Mwanda Phiri | The implications on suppliers of the spread of supermarkets in Southern Africa |
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Thando Vilakazi | The causes of high intra-regional road freight rates for food and commodities in Southern Africa |
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Parallel 1C – Structural change 1993-2013
Dirk van Seventer | Mini SAMs 1993-2013 |
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Rob Davies | South African economic structure: 1993-2013 |
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Sherwin Gabriel | Economy-wide estimates of technical advance: 1993-2013 |
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Parallel 1D – Bioenergy 1: Policies, demand, resources, and technology
Taku Fundira | Bioenergy and development policy in Southern Africa |
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Bruno Merven | Potential biofuel demand in South Africa’s transport sector |
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Marne van der Merwe and Graham von Maltitz | Agronomic potential for biofuel production in Southern Africa |
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William Stafford | Biofuel processing technologies: a look forward |
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Day two
Plenary – Policies for equitable growth: the regional economy
Reena das Nair and Channing Arndt | Growth and Development Policy:New Data, New Approaches, and New Evidence – Part II: Southern Africa |
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Parallel 2A – International finance and taxation
Jukka Pirttilä | Illicit flows |
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Ludwig Wier | Estimating profit shifting in South Africa using firm-level tax returns |
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Pieter van der Zwan | An evaluation of interest limitations to counter base erosion in South Africa |
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Parallel 2B – Value chains 2: Regional value chains, competitiveness, and industrial policies: case studies of poultry and mining
Judith Fessehaie | Regional integration and extractive industries: mining-related nation systems of innovation in Southern Africa |
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Olipa Zulu | The animal feed to poultry value chain in Zambia |
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Phumzile Ncube and Simon Roberts | Competitiveness, competition, and regional value chains in agro-processing: the development of poultry across South Africa, Botswana, Zimbabwe, and Zambia |
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Parallel 2C – Entering labour markets
Stewart Ngandu | Firm characteristics and youth employment in the formal sector in South Africa: An assessment using new national income tax data |
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Tumi Makgetla | Becoming youthful: an evaluation of the South African employment tax incentive |
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Amina Ebrahim and Murray Leibbrandt | The effects of the employment tax incentive on firm employment |
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Neil Rankin | Estimating the impact of the employment tax incentive |
Parallel 2D – Bioenergy 2: Social and economic impacts Chair: Trudi Hartzenberg
Paul Samboko | Bioenergy production in Zambia: Potential supply given biophysical and social constraints |
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Emilio Tostão | Social constraints to biofuel production in Mozambique | |
Faaiqa Hartley and Dirk van Seventer | Economy-wide implications biofuel production in Zambia and Mozambique | |
Sherwin Gabriel | Regional trade output and multiplier effects in Southern Africa |
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Channing Arndt | Synthesis |