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Covid-19 Country Report Chapter 6.3 Tourism and Leisure
The chapter unpacks and analyses the data showing the devastating impact of the pandemic on the tourism and leisure sectors and discuss some measures to mitigate the impact.
In conversation with Dr David Makhado, Chief Director for Research and Knowledge Management at the Department of Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation (DPME), about the COVID-19 Country Report, the production of which he is coordinating.
The Department of Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation, in partnership with GTAC and the National Research Foundation is working with South Africa’s top academics to record, chronicle, analyse and assess the...
2017 Public Economics Winter School reading list on the role of the state in financial systems part 2
2017 Public Economics Winter School reading list. This was a second list of recommended readings on the topic of the role of the state in financial systems.
2017 Public Economics Winter School reading list on the role of the state in financial systems.
This was a list of recommended readings on the topic of the role of the state in financial systems.
2017 Public Economics Winter School reading list
This was a list of recommended reading for the finance programme.
Does Finance Benefit Society?
In his article Luigi Zingales from Harvard University looks at how academics’ view of the benefits of finance vastly exceeds societal perception. This dissonance is at least partly explained by...
Monetary Policy as Financial-Stability Regulation
Jeremy C. Stein published this article in May 2011. This paper develops a model that speaks to the goals and methods of financialstability policies. There are three main points. First,...
From Efficient Market Theory to Behavioural Finance
Robert J. Shiller published this Cowles Foundation Discussion Paper No. 1385 in 2002. The efficient markets theory reached the height of its dominance in academic circles around the 1970s. Faith...
Credit Booms Gone Bust: Monetary Policy, Leverage Cycles, and Financial Crises, 1870–2008
In this article published in the American Economic Review in 2012,Moritz Schularick and Alan M. Taylor take a look at the brief history of macroeconomics, the subject of money and...
The Countercyclical Capital Buffer of Basel III: A Critical Assessment
in CEMFI Working Paper No. 1102 Rafael Repullo and Jesús Saurina provide a critical assessment of the countercyclical capital buffer in the new regulatory framework known as Basel III, which...
The Political Economy of Finance
Enrico Perotti, University of Amsterdam and Tinbergen Institute, drafted this discussion paper in 2013. This survey reviews how a recent political economy literature helps explaining variation in governance, competition, funding...
Shadowy Banks and the Interbank Amplifier During the Great Depression
In this essay Kris James Mitchener and Gary Richardson examined how interbank networks contributed to the severity of the contraction during the Great Depression. We assess how the reserve pyramid...
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Covid-19 Country Report Chapter 8: The experience and response of civil society to the Covid 19 Pandemic report
This chapter describes how civil society mobilised in response to the felt impact of the Covid-19 pandemic in South Africa. It briefly reviews on how families and communities were supported...
Covid-19 Country Report Chapter 6.3 Tourism and Leisure Presentation
The chapter unpacks and analyses the data showing the devastating impact of the pandemic on the tourism and leisure sectors and discuss some measures to mitigate the impact.
Covid-19 Country Report Chapter 6.2 Agriculture & The Food Supply Chain
This case study looks at food production and the distribution and retailing of food during the disaster, including informal trading. Selected agricultural sectors, such as wine, tobacco and the foodservice...
Covid-19 Country Report Chapter 6.2 Agriculture & The Food Supply Chain Presentation
This presentation looks at food production and the distribution and retailing of food during the disaster, including informal trading. Selected agricultural sectors, such as wine, tobacco and the foodservice sectors...
Covid-19 Country Report Chapter 6.5: Other Economic Sectors
This chapter reviews the winning and losing sectors in the economy, including tourism and leisure, public transport, the tobacco industry, real estate and the financial sector.
Covid-19 Country Report Chapter 6.5: Other Economic Sectors Presentation
This presentation reviews the winning and losing sectors in the economy, including tourism and leisure, public transport, the tobacco industry, real estate and the financial sector.
Covid-19 Country Report Chapter 6.1 Macroeconomic Impact and Policy
This chapter considers the impact of the pandemic on the macroeconomy at an aggregate level, along with the fiscal and monetary responses.
Covid-19 Country Report Chapter 6.1 Macroeconomic Impact and Policy Presentation
This presentation considers the impact of the pandemic on the macroeconomy at an aggregate level, along with the fiscal and monetary responses.
Covid-19 Country Report Chapter 5.1.3 South African Government social activities, basic services and support to vulnerable groups to COVID 19 presentation
This presentation reviews some of the vulnerabilities that existed among people in South Africa before the Covid-19 pandemic and assesses the extent to which the pandemic exacerbated these vulnerabilities.
Covid-19 Country Report Chapter 5.4: South African Government Women’s Empowerment and Gender Equity Responses to COVID-19
Government interventions during the Covid-19 pandemic sought to ensure that gains in women’s empowerment and gender equity would not be eroded, and find that, while some government interventions made reference...
Covid-19 Country Report Chapter 5.4: South African Government Women’s Empowerment and Gender Equity Responses to COVID-19 presentation
Government interventions during the Covid-19 pandemic sought to ensure that gains in women’s empowerment and gender equity would not be eroded, and find that, while some government interventions made reference...
Covid-19 Country Report Chapter 3.1 South African Legal and Regulatory Responses
This chapter uses the values enshrined in s1 of the Constitution to evaluate the state’s legal and regulatory response to Covid-19 within the context of the options provided by the...