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    Lessons from South Africa’s renewable energy regulatory and procurement experience

    Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies, South Africa, 2014
    South Africa’s Renewable Energy Independent Power Producer (REIPP) procurement programme is hailed worldwide as a model for renewable energy procurement. Its success is far from experimental and haphazard and points directly to lessons acquired prior to, and during, the launch and running of the programme.
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    Ethnicity and individual attitudes towards international investors: survey evidence from sub-Saharan Africa

    Afrobarometer, 2013
    Academic literature supports the idea that FDI is conducive for growth and, more importantly, for poverty alleviation. This paper focuses on Sub-Saharan Africa and tests the determinants of individual support toward foreign investors. The paper proposes a model that explains why foreign direct investment reinforces policy making along ethnic cleavages.
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    Citizens’ attitudes towards taxation in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and South Africa

    Afrobarometer, 2013
    Little is known about tax compliance behaviour in developing countries. This study explores factors that determine citizens’ tax compliance attitude in four African countries: South Africa, Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda.
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    Another resource curse?: the impact of remittances on political participation

    Afrobarometer, 2014
    International remittances are quickly becoming an important source of income for millions of individuals around the world. This article focuses on the political impact of remittances, and in particular, its effect on political participation, using data collected from 20 sub-Saharan African countries.
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    What drives quality of schools in africa?: disentangling social capital and ethnic divisions

    Afrobarometer, 2014
    Because of limited governmental resources in Africa, communities are often left in charge of managing their own schools. Therefore, to improve school quality, one must understand the ability of African communities to engage in collective action.
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    Socio-economic implications of mitigation in the power sector including carbon taxes in South Africa

    Energy Research Centre, 2014
    This working paper provides a discussion of recent developments within South Africa aimed at increasing the contribution of renewable energy. It then goes on to give a brief description of the carbon tax that National Treasury plans to implement and also provides an overview of previous studies on the implications of a carbon tax in South Africa.
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    Why do some Africans pay bribes while other Africans don't?

    Afrobarometer, 2014
    Bribery has long been described as a pervasive feature of Africa states, but a different picture emerges when the focus is shifted to the micro-level relation between individuals and public officials within a state. The purpose of this paper is to explain under which circumstances and to what extent the payment of bribes by individual Africans varies both within and between countries.
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    SADC 2014 - 2015: Are South Africa and Zimbabwe shaping the organisation?

    Institute for Security Studies, 2014
    This policy brief discusses the chairing of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) and its key institutions by South Africa and Zimbabwe, for the duration of their tenure from 2014 to 2015.
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    Perceptions and realities of corruption in South Africa

    Afrobarometer, 2013
    Corruption is a growing concern in South Africa, and cases of alleged corruption of government officials are detailed in the news media on a regular basis; identically, the Afrobarometer survey has been tracking public attitudes towards corruption since 2000. The aim of this paper is to utilise the Afrobarometer data to shed light on this issue.
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    Citizens perception on migration in South Africa

    Afrobarometer, 2013
    This briefing paper presents insights into how South Africans feel about migrants, the extent to which they might resist the entrance of migrants into their work and living spaces, and the extent to which they welcome migrants as potential new citizens.

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