It is painfully clear that South Africa is performing poorly, exacerbating problems such as inequality and exclusion. The economy’s ability…
Decades of low inflation led to widespread use of dollar-denominated financial instruments with fixed interest rates and long maturities.…
We propose a model to study when an intermediate action can serve as a stepping stone that enables the elimination of a harmful norm. While…
We exploit a policy designed to randomly allocate roommates in a large South African university to investigate whether interracial…
South Africa’s labor market exhibits a unique equilibrium with one of the highest unemployment rates in the world and yet a low level of…
The issue of debt sustainability has been the focus of continued theoretical and practical interest over the years. In emerging markets,…
This paper studies the role of technology in local-government tax collection capacity in the developing world. We first conduct a new…
March 2021, the Confederation of African Football’s President, Patrice Motsepe, insisted that “An African team must win the World Cup in…
Recent growth accelerations in Africa are characterized by increasing productivity in agriculture, a declining share of the labor force…
When asked about the significance of the French Revolution, Zhou Enlai reportedly said it was “too early to tell”. Assessing the…