Masters Degrees (Economics and Finance): Recent submissions
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The 'Land Debate' : is land reform the solution? An analysis of Brazil and South Africa.
(2016)This dissertation serves to assess the economic and social effects of land reform policies in Brazil and South Africa. The paper presents a brief historical review of land issues, related land laws and regulations within ... -
The finance-growth Nexus : lessons from South Africa.
(2016)Recent studies (Allen and Ndikumana, 2000; Odhiambo. 2004; Gondo, 2009; and Sunde, 2011) on the relationship between finance and economic growth in the South African context have produced mixed findings. Given that there ... -
The effects of fiscal policy on the current account and real exchange rate in South Africa.
(2015)This dissertation empirically studies the effects of expansionary fiscal policy on the current account and the real exchange rate in the South African economy. Recursive vector auto-regressive models based on the Choleski ... -
Style investing effects on the persistence and performance of South African unit trusts.
(2016)Style investing is considered the holy grail of investment finance and portfolio management, as it avails numerous options to the portfolio manager to simply and persistently beat the market. This research investigates the ... -
Style investing and information conveyed by past returns in South Africa : an empirical analysis.
(2015)The aim of this study was to establish the long-run relationship between six selected South African indices (i.e., large cap, small cap, resources, value, growth and industrials). Long-run relationships were analyzed in ... -
A macro-econometric analysis of economic growth and unemployment in post-apartheid South Africa.
(2015)This study seeks to determine whether Okun’s Law is valid for the South African economy, using time series data for the period 1994 to 2014. The data used is split into two periods, 1994q1 to 2003q4 and 2004q1 to 2014q4. ... -
The determinants of access to health care services : empirical evidence from African countries.
(2015)It has been acknowledged that access to health care is instrumental in improving health status; and better health status has been considered crucial to socio-economic development. However, there is insufficient evidence ... -
The economic impact of trade openness on foreign direct investment into emerging market countries.
(2014)This paper addresses a central research question that will enable us to understand the economic impact trade openness has on FDI. Does a government’s effort to liberalise trade, lead to an increase of FDI into the host ... -
Cost-effectiveness analysis of an HIV-adapted training and continuous quality improvement supervisory intervention for community caregivers.
(2015)Background It is argued that supportive supervision increases the performance of community health workers and this is evidenced by an increased uptake of interventions in health facilities located in the CHWs catchment ... -
The effectiveness of government spending on higher education.
(2015)Governments worldwide spend substantial shares of their budgets on education. This category of expenditure is expected to produce direct benefits for the individuals receiving schooling, as well as indirect benefits to ... -
Monetary policy and asymmetric effects of oil price shocks in South Africa.
(2015)This study employs the Structural Vector Autoregressive (SVAR) model to examine the asymmetric effects of oil price shocks on monetary policy in South Africa using monthly data from 1994:1 to 2013:12. A seven variable SVAR ... -
The effects of marital status on labour market participation, employment and wages in Lesotho.
(2015)Research across the world has found that married men, are more likely to participate in the labour force, more preferred by employers and earn more their unmarried counterparts. Whereas for women, studies found that it is ... -
Differences in hourly earnings across Cape Town, Johannesburg and Durban.
(2015)Researchers have long noticed the existence of wage differentials across metropolitan areas and researchers have documented wage differentials across metropolitan areas to be due to differences in the employment and ... -
An economic evaluation of alternate cannabis policy options - towards a cost-benefit analysis.
(2015)This thesis takes the form of a policy debate regarding alternate cannabis policy options. It will adopt the cost-benefit analysis theory and framework to inform this debate. It is said that cannabis had been used for ... -
Provincial variation in the effects of minimum wage laws in South Africa, 2000-2007.
(2015)Minimum wage laws are one of the most common forms of labour market legislation used internationally. Such laws were first implemented in South Africa in 2001, with the mandated wage differing across sectors. However, ... -
The impact of exchange rate misalignments on economic growth of the South African Customs Union.
(2015)The dissertation examines the impact of exchange rate misalignments on the economic growth of five countries in the SACU region: South Africa, Lesotho, Namibia, Swaziland and Botswana, using annual data from 1995 to 2012. ... -
An assessment of social diversity and economic outcomes : the measurement of social fractionalisation in South Africa.
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The effectiveness of poverty reduction strategy in post-apartheid South Africa.
(2015)South Africa’s post-apartheid government has embarked on numerous poverty reduction strategies in order to address poverty and inequality in the country. However, these strategies have been largely ineffective. Government ...