Research seminar
SA-TIED seminar on macroeconomic policy in South Africa
30 Nov 2021 / 15:30 to 17:00
On 30 November the SA-TIED programme will host an online seminar on macroeconomic policy in South Africa. This presentation is based on the report Macroeconomic Risks after a Decade of Microeconomic Turbulence, South Africa (2007–2021)...
Report
A proposed freight and passenger road-to-rail strategy for South Africa
A proposed freight and passenger road-to-rail strategy for South Africa
J.H. Havenga, A. de Bod, Z.P. Simpson, S. Swarts, and I.E. Witthöft
A cornerstone of rail improvement in South Africa is the development of a road-to-rail strategy for both freight and passengers. The report proposes road-to-rail strategies for both freight and passengers to assist identifying key next...
November 2021
News
Announcement: SA-TIED online event postponed
Announcement: SA-TIED online event postponed
by SA-TIED
Tomorrow’s SA-TIED online event, What’s needed to transform South Africa’s economy, featuring Dr David Masondo, Deputy Minister of Finance, Boipuso Modise from National Treasury, and Kunal Sen, director of UNU-WIDER, has been postponed until mid-January...
November 2021
Working paper
SA-TIED Working Paper 202
Simulation of options to replace the special COVID-19 Social Relief of Distress grant and close the poverty gap at the food poverty line
Maya Goldman, Ihsaan Bassier, Joshua Budlender, Lindi Mzankomo, Ingrid Woolard, and Murray Leibbrandt
We use a fiscal incidence model based on the South African 2014/15 Living Conditions Survey to simulate the poverty reduction impacts of a selection of medium-to-long-term social grant options with the goal of replacing the...
November 2021
Public revenue
Inequality
Policy Brief
Debt-financed fiscal stimulus in South Africa
by Hylton Hollander
Over the last decade, emerging market economy countries such as South Africa have seen their levels of government debt-to-GDP rise substantially, which has led to much debate around fiscal sustainability and sovereign debt risk. Even...
October 2021
Macro modelling
Working paper
SA-TIED Working Paper 200
Debt-financed fiscal stimulus in South Africa
Hylton Hollander
Debt-financed fiscal stimulus programmes directly stimulate aggregate demand through government expenditure or tax cuts, but their effectiveness is highly dependent on direct crowding out of private sector expenditure, spillover effects to the private sector through...
October 2021
Macro modelling
In the media
SA-TIED working paper on intergenerational wealth featured in News24
SA-TIED working paper on generational wealth featured in News24
SA-TIED
In an article on generational wealth in South Africa, News24 references SA-TIED working paper Estimating the distribution of household wealth in South Africa. The article outlines the challenges faced by many South Africans in acquiring...
September 2021
Inequality
Working paper
SA-TIED Working Paper 196
The COVID-19 pandemic and the economy in Southern Africa
Neva Makgetla
The COVID-19 pandemic has had severe economic consequences in Southern Africa, resulting in an unprecedented decline in production and employment. Similar policy responses have emerged across the region, centred on temporary and inadequate relief for...
September 2021
Regional growth
Working paper
SA-TIED Working Paper 193
Evaluation of the accounting and taxation differences of South African firms
Danie Schutte, Pieter van der Zwan, and Caro Janse van Rensburg
This paper analyses the permanent and temporary differences of South African firms for the period covered in the SARS-NT panel. The analysis provides valuable information about the differences between accounting profits and the taxable income...
September 2021
Public revenue
Working paper
SA-TIED Working Paper 191
COVID-19 and trade facilitation in Southern Africa: Implications for the AfCFTA
Kudzai Mataba and Faizel Ismail
COVID-19 has created a trade crisis in Southern Africa, with a dramatic slowdown in cross-border trade. The crisis, which exposed weaknesses and deficiencies in the trade facilitation regimes, presents an opportunity for the African Continental...
July 2021
Regional growth