Electricity supply in South Africa

Differential Electricity Pricing and Energy Efficiency in South Africa

By international standards the economy of South Africa is extremely energy intensive with only a few countries having higher intensities. SA’s primary energy use per unit of GDP is amongst the highest in the world The high energy and electricity intensity of the economy partly reflects SA’s resource endowments (in particular the abundance of coal) but is also a function of the historical under-...

HIV Treatment and Labor Supply in Rural South Africa

Antiretroviral therapy (ART) reduces HIV-related morbidity and mortality and has been shown to improve the productivity of HIV-positive workers. However, little is known about the impact of HIV illness and recovery (with ART) on labor supply of HIV patients and their households in Southern Africa, the epicenter of the HIV pandemic and a setting with slack labor markets. This paper assesses the ...

Competition in Retail Electricity Supply

Disability Screening and Labor Supply: Evidence from South Africa.

The Effect of South African Geopolitical Position in the Development of Cinema in South Africa

This paper will discuss about the role of the geopolitical location of South Africa in the development of movie and the cinema industry in this country. Despite of bringing ci-nema to South Africa by white Europeans, but the development of this phenomenon is mostly due to the geopolitical position of this country. It is interesting to know that ci-nema reached Africa in much the same time as it...