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Using household surveys for deriving labour market, poverty and inequality trends in South Africa
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2012-12)
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In order to evaluate the extent to which South Africa achieve the objectives of poverty and
inequality reduction as well as job creation, up-to-date and reliable data are required. Since
the transition, ...
Modelling the ecological-economic impacts of restoring natural capital, with a special focus on water and agriculture, at eight sites in South Africa
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2012-12)
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The restoration of natural capital has ecological, hydrological and economic benefits. Are these benefits greater than the costs of restoration when compared across a range of dissimilar sites? This study ...
Understanding poverty and inequality in Mozambique : the role of education and labour market status
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2012-12)
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis deals with poverty and inequality in Mozambique and with the link of education to wellbeing
through the labour market. Earlier studies that analysed well-being in Mozambique drew
counter-intuitive ...
Education and country growth models
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014-04)
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The over-arching concern of the three parts of the dissertation is how economics can
and should influence education policymaking, the emphasis on the economics side
being models of country development ...
Essays on dynamic macroeconomics
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014-04)
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In the first essay of this thesis, a medium scale DSGE model is developed and
estimated for the South African economy. When used for forecasting, the model is
found to outperform private sector economists ...
The reconstruction of regional systems of innovation to allow the evolution of the biotechnology industry in non-high technology regions : the case of the Western Cape region in South Africa
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014-04)
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study investigates the efforts of stakeholders in a regional innovation system (RIS) to reconstruct the system to enable the development of the nascent biotechnology industry in the Western Cape ...
Institutions and institutional change as explanation for differences in economic development – a study of the first three decades of the postcolonial experience of Zambia and Botswana
(Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2005-12)
Numerous theories have been constructed to provide reasons for economic growth
differences between countries. As data became more readily available, cross-country
empirical studies identified a set of variables that ...
Conceptual and empirical advances in antitrust market definition with application to South African competition policy
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2011-12)
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Delineating the relevant product and geographic market is an important first step in competition inquiries,
as it permits an assessment of market power and substitutability. Critics often argue that ...
The influence of fiscal policymaking frameworks on fiscal outcomes : evidence from the European Union
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014-12)
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This dissertation explores the potential of centralised, top-down procedural rules (also
known as budget-process rules) and independent fiscal councils to complement
numerical fiscal rules as devices ...
Spatial heterogeneity, generational change and childhood socioeconomic status : microeconometric solutions to South African labour market questions
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014-12)
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Microeconometric techniques have improved understanding of South Africa’s labour market substantially in the last two decades. This dissertation adds to this evidence by considering three separate labour ...