African Economy
The impact of Chinese textile imports on employment and value added in the manufacturing sector of the South African economy
... Textiles and clothing sectors have traditionally been protected by a high level of import barriers (such as tariffs, quotas, and export incentives) from international competition (Truett and Truett, 2010). In 1994, the ...
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Shocks, frictions, and business cycles in a developing Sub-Saharan African economy
... South African economy is helpful to capture the empirical dynamic of the macroeconomic ...open economy, a financial environment in which households directly accumulate capital is not necessary less ...
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The financialization of the South African economy and its implications for employment
... South African Economy and its Implication for Employment! Page 13 due to the pervasiveness and diversity of finance itself (Fine, 2013: ...South African economy or any economy in the ...
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Forecasting the South African Economy: A DSGE-VAR Approach
... This paper develops an estimable hybrid model that combines the micro-founded DSGE model with the flexibility of the theoretical VAR model. The model is estimated via the maximum likelihood technique based on quarterly ...
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Exchange Rate Undervaluation and Sectoral Performance of the South African Economy
... key contribution of our paper. In addition, we introduce two methods for constructing the index of real exchange rate undervaluation, which differs from the ones found in the existing studies. The first follow the ...
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Economy-wide and distributional impacts of an oil price shock on the south African economy
... important economy-wide consequences of relative price and income effects as well as labor market adjustment arising from a significant external shock or policy change, and (ii) a micro-simulation component with ...
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Financialisation of the South African economy: Impact on the economic growth path and employment
... The South African economy, along with the global economy more generally, has become increasingly financialized since the early 1990s. Financialization is closely associated with neoliberal policies ...
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Marginal Employment Growth Effects In The South African Economy
... he South African economy is characterised by high income inequalities and low levels of labour absorption. In order to narrow income inequalities, more people need to gain income from employment and ...
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Profitability and Crisis in the South African Economy
... South African economy and it contributes to the growing empirical lit- erature that extends Marxist analysis to emerging ...South African pro…tability analysis by Nattrass (2014) rely on data ending ...
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Examining the mining sector's contributions to gross domestic product and employment creation in the South African economy
... South African economy, the pace of mineral exploitation has declined significantly over the ...the economy, has witnessed a consistent ...the economy require advanced technology, highly ...
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Estimation of the parameters of a linear expenditure system (LES) demand function for a small African economy
... The validity of the key behavioral parameters used in the calibration process of computable general equilibrium (CGE) models remains a debated issue in the CGE literature. CGE modelers prefer to borrow from the handful ...
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The effect of export market-oriented culture on export performance: Evidence from a Sub-Saharan African economy
... literature reveals that our understanding of how exporting firms can leverage their export market knowledge resources to achieve success and the conditions under which export market orientation pays off is limited. ...
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The effect of export market-oriented culture on export performance: Evidence from a Sub-Saharan African economy
... (2011), “Market orientation and performance of export ventures: the process through marketing capabilities and competitive advantages”, Journal of the Academy of[r] ...
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SECTORAL PERFORMANCE IN THE AFRICAN ECONOMY – SOME ISSUES AND TRENDS
... To sum up, despite notable economic recovery in Africa since the turn of the 21st century, the continent still faces important challenges in attaining its development goals. Being highly commodity dependent, growth ...
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The role of the agricultural sector in the South African economy
... illustrated that agricultural employment has shown a steady decline since 1962: the number of people employed by the sector was more than halved between 1962 and 2010. The sector therefore made a net contribution to the ...
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SWS Distinguished Feminist Lecture: Feminist Politcal Economy in a Globalized World: African Women Migrants in South Africa and the United States
... that African women migrants in the United States, even those who are not low-income per se, experience a great deal of marginality based on their intersectional ...with African women and men in Greater ...
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The Economy
... The discrediting of many of the orthodoxies that governed economic policy making immediately after the crash made many feel that this offered an opportunity to effect a long-term reform of the British political ...
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oa Southern African Journal of Demography - HIV/Aids prevalence and incidence: Evidence from four industries of the Kwazulu-Natal economy
... The HIV/AIDS epidemic (in the ASSA model) spreads only in the At-Risk group. It is assumed that ASSA2003 correctly projects the prevalence, incidence and AIDS morbidity and death rates[r] ...
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Government accounting reform in an ex-French African colony: the international political economy of neo-colonialism
... requiring African countries to adopt cash rationing “were not transparent, and arbitrary cuts in expenditure were made to the detriment of efficient resource allocation” , and benefits of government accounting ...
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