This book offers new quantitative insights into how South African economy reacts to external economic shocks. The analysis includes focusing on economic growth and financial spill over, effects of capital inflows, contrasting the stock market price returns and volatility on economic growth and...

Africa's economies have weathered the global economic and financial crisis relatively well and have rebounded in 2010. The continent is expected to continue on its path of recovery although serious headwinds weigh on the momentum for expansion in 2011, notably the political events in North...