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03/2011: The role and value of water in natural capital restoration on the Agulhas Plain

Helanya Fourie, Martin de Wit and Albert van der Merwe

02/2011: Collapse. The story of the international financial crisis, its causes and policy consequences

Stan Du Plessis

01/2011: Limits and Uses of Price Tests for Market Definition

Willem Boshoff

29/2010: ʼn Ongelyke Oes: Die Franse Hugenote en die vroeë Kaapse wynbedryf

Johan Fourie and Dieter von Fintel

28/2010: Signalling performance: Continuous assessment and matriculation examination marks in South African schools

Servaas van der Berg and Debra Shepherd

27/2010: Who Responds to Voluntary Cognitive Tests in Household Surveys? The Role of Labour Market Status, Respondent Confidence, Motivation and a Culture of Learning in South Africa

Hendrik van Broekhuizen and Dieter von Fintel

26/2010: Teacher pay in South Africa

Servaas van der Berg and Rulof Burger

25/2010: Write your paper now: Procrastination, conscientiousness and welfare

Hendrik van Broekhuizen

24/2010: When the remedy is worse than the disease: Adjusting survey income data for price differentials, with special reference to Mozambique

Carlos Da Maia and Servaas van der Berg

23/2010: A History with Evidence: Income inequality in the Dutch Cape Colony

Johan Fourie and Dieter von Fintel

22/2010: Current poverty and income distribution in the context of South African history

Servaas van der Berg

21/2010: The home team scores! A first assessment of the economic impact of World Cup 2010

Stan Du Plessis and Cobus Venter

20/2010: The impact of mega-sport events on tourist arrivals

Johan Fourie and María Santana-Gallego

19/2010: An alternative perspective on South Africa’s public debt, 1962-1994

Estian Calitz, Stan Du Plessis and Franz Siebrits

18/2010: Implications of the financial crisis for models in monetary policy

Stan Du Plessis

17/2010: Social assistance reform during a period of fiscal stress

Servaas van der Berg and Franz Siebrits

16/2010: Human Resource Inputs and Educational Outcomes in Botswana’s Schools: Evidence from SACMEQ and TIMMS

Tia Linda Zuze

15/2010: Efficiency and equity effects of social grants in South Africa

Servaas van der Berg, Franz Siebrits and Bongisa Lekezwa

14/2010: The costs of illiteracy in South Africa

Martin Gustafsson, Servaas van der Berg, Debra Shepherd and Cobus Burger

13/2010: The impact of the international economic crisis on child poverty in South Africa

Margaret Chitiga, Bernard Decaluwe, Ramos Mabugu, Hélène Maisonnave, Véronique Robichaud, Debra Shepherd, Servaas van der Berg and Dieter von Fintel

12/2010: Shifting trends in higher education funding

Pierre de Villiers and Liezl Nieuwoudt

11/2010: Loud and clear? Can we hear when the SARB speaks?

Monique Reid and Stan Du Plessis

10/2010: The state and scope of the economic history of developing regions

Stefan Schirmer, Latika Chaudhary, Metin Cosgel, Jean-Luc Demonsant, Johan Fourie, Ewout Frankema, Giampaolo Garzarelli, John Luiz, Martine Mariotti, Grietjie Verhoef and Se Yan

09/2010: Defining and measuring informal employment in South Africa: A review of recent approaches

Derek Yu

08/2010: Higher education export service delivery by the University of Stellenbosch

Emile du Plessis

07/2010: The strategic implications of black empowerment in South Africa: a case study of boundary choice and client preferences in a small firm

Willem Boshoff

06/2010: South Africa’s economics of education: A stocktaking and an agenda for the way forward

Martin Gustafsson and Thabo Mabogoane

05/2010: Policy note on pre-primary schooling: An empirical contribution to the 2009 Medium Term Strategic Framework

Martin Gustafsson

04/2010: Poverty and inequality trends in South Africa using different survey data

Derek Yu

03/2010: South African mega-events and their impact on tourism

Karly Spronk and Johan Fourie

02/2010: HOW CAN YOU BE A CHRISTIAN AND AN ECONOMIST? THE MEANING OF THE ACCRA DECLARATION FOR TODAY

Stan Du Plessis

01/2010: The sources of comparative advantage in tourism

Leon du Toit, Johan Fourie and Devon Trew

26/2009: Managing the teacher pay system: What the local and international data are telling us

Martin Gustafsson and Firoz Patel

25/2009: Measuring the impact of social cash transfers on poverty and inequality in Namibia

Sebastian Levine, Servaas van der Berg and Derek Yu

24/2009: Determining the Causes of the Rising South African Unemployment Rate: An Age, Period and Generational Analysis

Rulof Burger and Dieter von Fintel

23/2009: A new and direct test of the ‘gender bias’ in multiple-choice questions

Stan Du Plessis and Sophia du Plessis

22/2009: Oorsprong van die dualistiese karakter van die Suid-Afrikaanse skoolstelsel

Pierre de Villiers

21/2009: The comparability of Census 1996, Census 2001 and Community Survey 2007

Derek Yu

20/2009: Economic Crises, Stabilisation Policy and Output in Emerging Market Economies

Leon du Toit

19/2009: Poverty trends since the transition: What we know

Servaas van der Berg, Megan Louw and Leon du Toit

18/2009: The opportunity cost of the upkeep of the criminal justice system in South Africa from 1980 to 2006

Pierre de Villiers and Soon Nel

17/2009: The dynamics of inequality in a newly settled, pre-industrial society: The case of the Cape Colony

Johan Fourie and Dieter von Fintel

16/2009: The sensitivity of South African inflation expectations to surprises

Monique Reid

15/2009: Poverty, Inequality and the Role of Social Grants: An Analysis using Decomposition Techniques

Paula Armstrong and Cobus Burger

14/2009: Main Findings on Free Basic Services from National Treasury Fiscal Incidence Report

Hassan Essop and Eldridge Moses

13/2009: The cost of fiscal subsidies to higher education students in South Africa: A comparison between 2000 and 2006

Pierre de Villiers

12/2009: Fiscal incidence analysis: Healthcare

Alex van den Heever

11/2009: The fiscal incidence of provision of free basic water

Servaas van der Berg, Ada Jansen, Cobus Burger, Eldridge Moses and Hassan Essop

10/2009: Fiscal incidence of social spending in South Africa, 2006

Servaas van der Berg

09/2009: Isolating a measure of inflation expectations for the South African financial market using forward interest rates

Monique Reid