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An analysis of sub-national economic databases in South Africa
(North-West University, 2012)
South Africa faces significant challenges such as a low economic growth rate, high unemployment rate, high poverty rate and substantial inequality. These problems and their possible solutions have a spatial dimension that ...
The men by the side of the road : determinants of the wages of day labourers
(2015)
South Africa faces significant challenges with low economic growth and high unemployment rates. Unemployed individuals find it difficult to enter into the informal and formal sectors and are often required to work as day ...
Using Twitter to measure policy uncertainty in South Africa
(North-West University, 2019)
Policy uncertainty affects economies around the world through the impact that it has on employment, stock markets, consumption, inflation, production, investment, and exports, which ultimately affects economic growth. Due ...
A global balancing act: South Africa's susceptibility to economic crises
(North-West University, 2018)
Motivation: The recent financial crises indicated that countries are susceptible to external shocks. Global imbalances have become a central point of discussion in the cause of financial crises (see among others: Obstfeld ...
Assessing the economic impact of a South African university campus
(North-West University, 2018)
Various data sources show that the economy of Potchefstroom in South Africa’s North West Province delivered consistently positive economic growth rates from 2002 to 2016. Even during times of recession, the local economy ...
Analysing the spatial persistence of population and wealth during Apartheid
(2015)
This dissertation undertakes an analysis of the spatial persistence of population in South Africa over the period 1911 to 2011. A comprehensive review is given of the history and development of geographical economics in ...
An analysis of the polarisation of the South African labour market
(2015)
The high level of inequality in South Africa remains one of the biggest problems facing the country. Inequality is not limited to income and can be found in infrastructure, health and education as part of the heritage of ...