South Africa

Drawing on the first comparable, country-level evidence base from Argentina, Colombia, Ghana, India, Mexico, and South Africa, the IEA documents significant variation in where and how women exit the academic economics pipeline. The findings suggest t...

South Africa remains the most unequal country in the world despite the end of apartheid thirty years ago. Racial inequalities have declined but these gains have largely benefited a new Black elite. Government redistribution is substantial and has ach...

A growing number of urban areas around the world face water scarcity. Focusing on the prolonged drought that Cape Town experienced from 2015 to 2018, this column examines how adaptation shaped outcomes for the city’s residents and for its municipal w...

Half of South Africa’s gender pay gap comes from women sorting into low-paying firms, with low formality and high churn being key to understanding this dynamic.

How can simple changes to transport policy improve the efficiency and quality of informal transit networks in developing countries?

Short, low-cost workshops helped young South African jobseekers to learn about their skills, search for better-matched vacancies, and raise their earnings by 25%.

Transfer mispricing—the practice in which multinationals shift profits to subsidiaries in tax havens—disproportionately harms developing countries. What tools can low-capacity governments use to identify these cases of tax evasion? How can global corporate tax policies help curb evasion?

A nationwide alcohol ban in South Africa reduced violent crime and injury-related deaths, offering critical lessons for public policy.

This article explores the extent to which apartheid negatively impacted educational attainment, and shows that this occurred primarily through changing early childhood environments