Since the early 1970s, the South African economy has undergone fundamental structural change with major implications for development prospects, and for the trickle down of the benefits of economic growth. It is argued that a declaration of economic growth, a shift in the balance of power,...

There is a well-known debate about the roles of geography versus institutions in explaining the long-term development of countries. These debates have usually been based on cross-country regressions where questions about parameter heterogeneity, unobserved heterogeneity, and endogeneity cannot...

Although racial data are no longer available, this article uses a 1997 dataset to compare education spending with the pre-democracy situation. The new government emphasised fiscal resource shifts to eliminate spending discrimination rather than changing educational outcomes. Fiscal resource...