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3-month bond option strategies: an analysis of performance from 1998 to 2010 in the South African market

Author: Ndebele, Ndumiso Date: 2011 Due to the 2008 financial crisis, investors have become more risk averse in investing in equities and have increased their holdings in bonds as they are believed to be less risky. However, South African interest rates have been volatile over ... Read more
A Blockchain-enabled System to enhance Food Traceability in Local Food Supply Chains (FSCs) suitable for Small Co-operatives in South Africa

Author: Kanjere, Julian Date: 2021 Food is vital to human life. Therefore, ensuring its safety as it moves from producer to consumer in food supply chains (FSCs) is essential. This can be achieved through the use of food traceability technology which enables track and trace ... Read more
A Critical Assessment of the Sustainability of South Africa's Fiscal Policy and Related Institutional Frameworks

Author: Ngewana, Azande Date: 2019 Historically, there are many examples of countries that have had to deal with the unpleasant consequences of economic mismanagement. A recent example is Venezuela, which has imploded into hyperinflation. It is therefore important to consider ... Read more
A low-cost, low-intensity contingency management smoking cessation programme with students: Experimental evidence

Author: Rusch, Olivia Date: 2018 Tobacco consumption is a pressing global issue, leading to more than five million deaths each year. In South Africa, the smoking prevalence rate is stubbornly high, implying that a successful smoking cessation programme could have large social ... Read more
A Qualitative Analysis of the South African Just Transition

Author: Monteith, Struan Date: 2021 The threat of climate change has been identified as one of the leading challenges facing humanity. As such, there is a necessary global transition to lower-carbon economies and societies to reduce the harmful emissions caused by human activities ... Read more
A small push goes a long way: An evaluation of the cumulative effects of a cash transfer on South African youth

Author: Jani, Tafadzwa Date: 2021 Persistently high poverty rates in developing countries have negatively affected social welfare outcomes, including infant mortality, food security, life expectancy, and educational attainment. In the late 2010s, depressed household incomes ... Read more
Acreage response before and after the deregulation of the South African maize industry : the role of SAFEX in price discovery and price risk managment

Author: Behar, Alexander Date: 2010 The withdwal of the Maize Board in 1996 meant that farmers could no longer rely on their pre-planting price or "voorskat" for price discovery and price risk management. Some have claimed (UNCTAD, 2007) that the South African Futures Exchange ... Read more
Addressing Plastic Bags Consumption Crises through Plastic Bag Levy, Retailer Monetary and Non-monetary Interventions in South Africa

Author: Abiola, Babatunde Date: 2022 This research analyses the impact of a plastic bag levy, and retailer interventions focussing on promotion of reusable bags to reduce plastic bag consumption. For this purpose, tax revenue data for the fiscal years 2008 to 2020 and retail ... Read more
Adolescent econometricians : perceived earnings differentials and choice for tertiary education

Author: Moyo, Alfred N F Date: 2008 Includes bibliographical references (leaves 69-73). Read more
African labour problems on South African gold mines, with special reference to the strike of 1946

Author: Diamond, Charles Robin Date: 1969 The aim of this work has been to place the African Mine Strike of 1946 in historical perspective, by tracing through the years the results of the policy of the gold mining industry and the paternalism of the Government, and thus the causes ... Read more
Aggregation bias, trade liberalisation and the J-curve in South Africa : exploring the bilateral real exchange rate - trade balance relationship

Author: Trappler, Daniel Date: 2007 This paper investigates the short and long-run effects of openness on South Africa's non-gold merchandise trade balance at the bilateral and aggregate level. Openness is measured using bilateral real exchange rates and a measure of tariff ... Read more
Agricultural change and farmworker living standards in post-apartheid South Africa

Author: Le Roux, Leonard Date: 2019 Commercial agriculture in South Africa has been subject to accelerated regulatory and economic change in the time since the country’s democratization. This dissertation focusses on some of the interactions of these changes with the prospects ... Read more
The agro-economic development of the lowland region of Lesotho

Author: Helman, Chaim Date: 1971 The purpose of this study is to explore the possibilities of agricultural development through the intensification of crop production in the lowland of Lesotho. The methodology used went through the following steps: a) A representative "village ... Read more
Aid, infrastructure and growth

Author: Mti, Sehlule Nontutuzelo Date: 2011 In their seminal paper, Burnside and Dollar (2000) introduced the interactive term aid*policy into growth equations. Most studies up until then had merely added aid as a variable on its own with GDP growth as the dependent variable in order ... Read more
All jobs are equal, but some jobs are more equal than others: what a clustering algorithm reveals about the labour market segmentation in South Africa

Author: Kensett, Jonathan Matthew Date: 2021 The theory of labour market segmentation is often used to explain wage inequality in South Africa. It posits that labour markets consist of different segments that are differentiated from other segments based on some observable characteristics. ... Read more
Alternative monetary regimes : are they operational?

Author: Schnadt, Norbert Date: 1990 Although the proposed alternative monetary regimes have received critical attention from White (1984), McCallum (1985), O' Driscoll ( 1987) and Hoover ( 1988), we are not aware of any systematic and coherent critical appraisal. The main ... Read more
Ambiguity, ambiguity aversion and the coverage of uncertain risks : the case of the insurer

Author: Chelwa, Grieve Date: 2011 Ambiguity aversion is defined as an aversion to any mean-preserving spread in the probability space. Using the Smooth Ambiguity Model proposed by Klibanoff, Marinacci and Mukerji (2005), we show that ambiguity aversion results in a reduction ... Read more
An analysis of cigarette prices and affordability in Africa: evidence from African Cigarette Prices (ACP) Data

Author: Chinembiri, Tapiwa Date: 2018 Cigarette affordability is defined as the amount of money or its time equivalent required to purchase cigarettes. It is one of the important determinants of tobacco consumption and is calculated from the interaction of consumer income and ... Read more
An analysis of spectrum allocation for the mobile phone services

Author: Bahar, Tadjadine Hisseine Date: 2021 This paper investigates the relationship between the spectrum allocation policy and the mobile broadband cost in 135 countries between 2012 and 2019, with a particular focus on developing countries. We construct a panel data collected from ... Read more
An Analysis of the Finance Growth Nexus in Nigeria

Author: Chetty, Roheen Date: 2021 This study empirically examines the relationship between financial development and economic growth in Nigeria. It employs statistical techniques such as the Autoregressive Distributed Lag approach as well as a short and long run Granger ... Read more

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