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Tasks, Skills, and Institutions
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This peer-reviewed research is available free of charge. UNU-WIDER believes that research is a global public good and supports Open Access.
– South Africa’s Kuznetsian tension
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The Developer’s Dilemma
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This peer-reviewed research is available free of charge. UNU-WIDER believes that research is a global public good and supports Open Access.
– The top-end, labour markets, fiscal redistribution and the persistence of very high inequality
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Inequality in the Developing World
Much of the research on the impact of fiscal policy shocks on macroeconomic outcomes (e.g., fiscal multipliers) uses reduced-form modelling approaches such as vector auto-regressions to obtain empirical results. In a recent study1, we used this approach to estimate fiscal multipliers for South...
Despite the frequent use of fiscal policy for stabilization purposes, there remains significant uncertainty regarding the impact of fiscal policy decisions on macroeconomic outcomes. This impact is quantified by calculating fiscal multipliers. A fiscal multiplier measures the impact of government’s...
– Progress on equality thwarted by slow growth and success of top earners
South Africa has the highest rate of measured inequality in the world. Often thought to be a legacy of the apartheid system, inequality in South Africa has stubbornly persisted. South Africa’s position as highest inequality country in the world has not changed Progressive taxation and social...
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Industries without Smokestacks
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Growth and Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa
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From the book: Oxford Handbook of Africa and Economics, Vol. 2.As an upper middle-income country within Africa, South Africa often attracts specific interest in terms of its economic growth and development dynamics. Often under-appreciated, is the extent to which the system of apartheid has...
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– Lessons from South Africa’s Training and Education Programme
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African Youth and the Persistence of Marginalization
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Food Price Policy in an Era of Market Instability
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– Lessons from Botswana, Ghana, Mauritius, and South Africa
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Achieving Development Success
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The Role of Elites in Economic Development
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– An Augmented Endowments-Inequality Hypothesis and the Rise of an Elite in the Cape Colony
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The Role of Elites in Economic Development
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