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Labor Law
The convergence of artificial intelligence (AI) and labor lawLabor law is an ever-changing and fast-develo** field of research, posing crucial...
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The Belt and Silk Road: Do These Ties Bind China and South Africa?
Hundreds of billions spent on China’s BRI targeted a corridor of regions and countries including large parts of Africa. On 2 December 2015, South...
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South African Cities and Corruption: A Tale of Two Cities
The present chapter is based on research combined with an enhanced focus on corruption in two major South African cities (Johannesburg and Port...
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Effectiveness of Waste Management Control Systems in Bloemfontein
Construction industry is regarded as one of the major producers of waste. With the increase of construction waste in South Africa, due to it being a...
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Non-competition Goals and Their Impact on South African Merger Control: An Empirical Analysis
Merger control regimes in various jurisdictions—especially in Africa—feature non-competition objectives in addition to conventional goals, such as...
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Exchange-rate volatility and commodity trade between the U.S. and Germany: asymmetry analysis
Recent introduction of asymmetric cointegration and error-correction modeling has revealed that failure to find a significant link between two...
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The South African Wine Industry
Modern South Africa is a product of its history and geography: the strategic location of the Cape Colony on the sea route to the east, the great...
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Crack: Micromechanics of a Dysfunctional Illegal Market
Recife’s crack market is intensely competitive, particularly at the retail level. The challenges involved in governing the market in that context are...
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Spillovers from Euro Area Bond Yields into the South African Macro Economy
The euro area borrowing costs increased significantly during the sovereign debt crisis period, which still rages on. The crisis could spillover into...
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Partial minimum wage compliance
In many develo** countries, a significant portion of the wage distribution is found below the legal minimum wage. In order to fully understand the...
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Pharmaceutical Pricing in South Africa
South Africa has implemented a number of important medicine pricing interventions in the post-apartheid era, informed by the 1996 National Drug...
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A Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) Analysis of the Expenditure on Infrastructure in the Limpopo Economy in South Africa
The Limpopo Province is one of the poorer provinces in South Africa, facing the challenges of poverty, inequality and unemployment. To address these...
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Tracking poverty with coarse data: evidence from South Africa
Household surveys often contain coarse data, which consist of a mixture of missing values, interval-censored values and point (fully-observed)...
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Tripartism and Economic Reforms in South Africa and Zimbabwe
This chapter compares two very different experiences with tripartism in Africa in the last two decades: a weak advisory model in Zimbabwe and a...
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How remote are Vietnam’s ethnic minorities? An analysis of spatial patterns of poverty and inequality
This paper investigates whether physical accessibility or ethnicity is a stronger determinant of poverty in Vietnam. Spatially disaggregated welfare...
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Welfare, Development and Growth: Lessons from South Africa
This volume has presented evidence from OECD countries that there can be a coexistence of social spending, economic growth and stability. A recurring...
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Exploring the connections among job accessibility, employment, income, and auto ownership using structural equation modeling
Using structural equation modeling, this study empirically examines the connections between job accessibility , workers per capita , income per capita ,...
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Changes in Banking in South Africa in the 1980s
The banking sector in South Africa is dominated by five groups: First National, Standard, Nedcor, Bankorp, and Volkskas. These five groups control 97...
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South Africa’s First Development Bank: The Development of Southern Africa, 1984–89
Since southern Africa is a develo** region it is logical that it should possess a development bank and that this development bank should be in...
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Wesbank: South Africa’s Leading Hire Purchase Bank, 1968–90
Wesbank is a hire purchase bank that grew up on the back of the automobile industry. Though its roots reach back into the 1890s, its real growth...