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Petrol price regulation in South Africa : is it meeting its intended objectives?

Crompton, Rod; Sing, Midesh; Filter, Vernon; Msimango, … - 2020

price. Import parity pricing regulation has not kept pace with market changes. A policy shift in 1998 towards marketrelated ….70-0.80 rands/litre. Price deregulation is inhibited by political regulation and social policies entangled in regulation. … despite declining petrol and diesel volumes between 2005 and 2019. Estimates suggest that the petrol price could be lower by 0 …

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Economic governance : improving the economic and regulatory environment for supporting private sector activity

Kirkpatrick, Colin H. - 2012

impact on private sector development in developing countries. -- economic regulation ; regulatory reform ; impact evaluation …

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Who demands labour (de)regulation in the developing world? : Insider-outsider theory revisited

Ronconi, Lucas; Kanbur, Ravi; López-Cariboni, Santiago - 2019

Contrary to the predictions of the insider-outsider model, we show that the large majority of outsiders in developing countries support, rather than oppose, protective labour regulations. This evidence holds across countries in different regions, across different types of protective labour...

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Spillover effects of the recent US monetary policy shocks on the South African economy : the role of monetary and fiscal policy coordination

Liu, Guangling; Matola, Marrium Mustapher - 2024

price stability under Regime M increases real interest rates, raising domestic debt service costs and the debt-to-GDP ratio …

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What drove the profitability of colonial firms? : labour coercion and trade preferences on the Sena Sugar Estates (1920-74)

Jones, Sam; Gibbon, Peter - 2022

The magnitude of returns to colonial-era investments in Africa has been addressed in an extensive literature, as have the nature and legacies of extractive colonial institutions. However, the link between these institutions and the profitability of firms remains unclear. We reconstruct the...

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Twenty-five years of inflation-targeting in South Africa : going from 6% to 3%?

Burger, Philippe - 2025

lowering the level and volatility of administered price inflation, reducing the budget deficit, and improving electricity …

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The impacts of the food, fuel and financial crises on households in Nigeria : a retrospective approach for research enquiry

Chiripanhura, Blessing M.; Niño-Zarazúa, Miguel - 2013

Nigeria. It uses primary household level data from Nigeria to analyse the impacts of induced price variability on household …

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Pandemics and their impact on oil and metal prices

Addison, Tony; Ghoshray, Atanu - 2020

We examine the effect of pandemics on selected commodity prices-in particular, those of zinc, copper, lead, and oil. We set up a vector autoregressive model and analyse data since the mid-nineteenth century to determine how prices reacted to pandemics such as the 1918 Spanish Flu, 1957 Asian...

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Discerning trends in international metal prices in the presence of non-stationary volatility

Addison, Tony; Ghoshray, Atanu - 2020

Modelling the underlying long-run trend of metal prices is important, given that selected metals are a source of income for many countries. However, estimating the underlying trend has proven to be difficult, given the persistence and volatility of primary commodity prices-metals are no...

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Global trends in the political economy of smart grids : a tailored perspective on 'smart' for grids in transition

Eid, Cherrelle; Hakvoort, Rudi; Jong, Martin de - Joint Institute for Strategic Energy Analysis - 2016

The global transition towards sustainable, secure, and affordable electricity supply is driving changes in the consumption, production, and transportation of electricity. This paper shows the different policy aims that are promoted with smart grids in Europe, the United States, and China. In all...

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