OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of South African Journal of Economics is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Labour Market Dynamics in South Africa at the Onset of the COVID‐19 Pandemic	48
A Tale of Three Countries: What is the Relationship Between COVID‐19, Lockdown and Happiness?	37
Social Assistance Amidst the COVID‐19 Epidemic in South Africa: A Policy Assessment	27
Economic and Distributional Impact of COVID‐19: Evidence from Macro‐Micro Modelling of the South African Economy	27
Covid‐19, Economic Growth and South African Fiscal Policy	20
The Possible Effects of the Extended Lockdown Period on the South African Economy: A CGE Analysis	10
Export margins and survival: A firm‐level analysis using Kenyan data	9
Exclusive Growth? Rapidly Increasing Top Incomes Amid Low National Growth in South Africa	8
Snakes and ladders and loaded dice: Poverty dynamics and inequality in South Africa between 2008 and 2017	7
South African competition policy on excessive pricing and its relation to price gouging during the COVID‐19 disaster period	7
Potential Impact of Climate Change and Armed Conflict on Inequality in Sub‐Saharan Africa	7
Differentiation in Economic Costs and Returns from Living with Wildlife in Namibian Community Conservancies	6
An analysis of the impact of technological innovation on productivity in South African manufacturing firms using direct measures of innovation	6
Public Sector Growth in the British Cape Colony: Evidence From New Data on Expenditure and Foreign Debt, 1830‐1910	6
The Optimal Monetary and Macroprudential Policies for the South African Economy	5
Associations Between Logistics and Economic Growth in Africa	5
Ethnic Diversity and Local Economies	5
On the aggregate effects of global uncertainty: Evidence from an emerging economy	5
Effects of terrorism and economic policy uncertainty on economic complexity in Africa: A study of the moderating role of governance institutions	5
Electricity outages and residential fires: Evidence from Cape Town, South Africa	4
Do tax administration reforms improve tax revenue performance in Togo? Empirical insights from experimental approaches	3
Economic Development and South Africa: 25 Years Analysis (1994 to 2019)	3
Do International Sanctions Reduce Household and Government Consumption in Developing Countries?	3
Foreign direct investment determinants in Mano River Union countries: Micro and macro evidence	3
The South African–United States sovereign bond spread and its association with macroeconomic fundamentals	3

Evaluating the economic well‐being in the context of Africa	3
A Tale of Two Countries and Two Stages: South Africa, China and the Lewis Model	3
A Spatial Analysis of Property Crime Rates in South Africa	3
Time, health service utilisation and health status in Africa: Evidence from six countries	2
Non‐linear Effects of Inflation on Economic Growth in the Democratic Republic of the Congo	2
The Impacts of Economic Freedom and Institutional Quality on Migration from African Countries	2
Reweighting the OHS and GHS to improve data quality: Representativeness, household counts, and small households	2
Identifying steady‐state growth and inflation in the South African economy, 1960–2020	2
Conflict heterogeneity in Africa	2
Equivalence scales in a developing country with extensive inequality	2
Willingness to pay for COVID‐19 test and vaccine in South Africa and Ghana: A contingent valuation study	2
Prospects for a Monetary Union in the East Africa Community: Some Empirical Evidence	2
Revisiting the accuracy of inflation forecasts in Nigeria: The oil price–exchange rate–asymmetry perspectives¹	2
Determinants of attrition between Waves 1 and 2 of South Africa's National Income Dynamics Study – Coronavirus Rapid Mobile Survey (NIDS‐CRAM)	2
South African student retention during 2020: Evidence from system‐wide higher education institutional data	2