Food and crude oil products constitute 60 per cent of commodities used to measure the consumer price index and Kenya is a net importer of both. However, there is very little hard information about the actual effects of the global price shocks of…
The economies of southern Africa all face significant development challenges, not helped by the fact that many of these countries are ill-prepared for the demands of the rapidly advancing digital era. Given its heterogeneous membership and therefore…
Jansen van Rensburg, S.J., Viviers, W., Cameron, M. & Parry, A. 2019. Identifying export opportunities between IORA member states using the TRADE-DSM® methodology: A case study involving South Africa and Thailand. Journal of Indian Ocean Region…
Portfolio investors during 1880–1914 were motivated by the prospect of higher (ex-ante) expected returns and the search for diversification. At the London stock exchange, such overseas portfolios also realised higher (ex-post) returns than domestic…