Achieving Price Financial And Macro Economic Stability In South Africa

Author : Nombulelo Gumata
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 303066340X
Total Pages : 556 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Achieving Price, Financial and Macro-Economic Stability in South Africa written by Nombulelo Gumata and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-05-27 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the macro-financial effects of central bank balance sheets, macro-prudential tools, and financial regulation in South Africa. How employment can be maximised while keeping inflation low and stable is examined in relation to the structural changes required to alter the composition of South African bank balance sheets. Quantitative methods and approaches are utilised to highlight the impact of suggested policies. This book aims to outline strategies and policy interventions that can help achieve the National Development Plan in South Africa. It will be of interest to researchers and policymakers working within development economics, African economics, development finance, and financial policy.

Author : Nombulelo Gumata
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 303030888X
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Capital Flows, Credit Markets and Growth in South Africa written by Nombulelo Gumata and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-12-11 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the dynamics in capital flows, credit markets and growth in South Africa. The authors explore the role of global economic growth, policy shifts and various economic policy uncertainties. Central banks in advanced economies are engaged in unconventional monetary policy tools such as balance sheet policies, negative interest rates and extended forward guidance to assist them to meet their price, financial and macro-economic stability objectives. This book determines whether BRICS GDP growth is a source of shocks or an amplifier of global growth shocks. The authors find that global economic growth and policy uncertainty reinforce each other via capital flows, credit conditions and business confidence on the domestic economy. Furthermore, they demonstrate that there is momentum in the changes in the spread between the repo rate and federal funds rate. In addition, global real policy rates impact domestic GDP growth and labor market conditions. The authors examine the economic costs of capital flow surges, sudden stops and elevated portfolio volatility shocks and their interaction with GDP growth and credit. They show that equity and debt inflows matter in the attainment of the price stability mandate. Moreover, business confidence transmits sovereign credit ratings upgrades and downgrades shocks to the real economy via GDP growth, the cost of government debt and borrowing to impact credit growth. High GDP growth increases the likelihood of sovereign credit ratings upgrades, hence policymakers should implement pro-growth policies. Inflation regimes impact the transmission of positive nominal demand shocks to the price level. Low and stable inflation (inflation below 4.5 per cent) reduces the pass-through of positive nominal demand shocks to inflation.

Author : Nombulelo Gumata
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319435515
Total Pages : 582 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bank Credit Extension and Real Economic Activity in South Africa written by Nombulelo Gumata and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-03-13 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents empirical evidence that supports and facilitates a practical, integrated approach to how bank regulatory and selected macro-prudential tools interact with monetary policy to achieve price and financial stability. The empirical results contained in various chapters accompany in-depth historical analysis and counterfactual scenarios that enable proper policy evaluation and the interaction of bank regulatory, macro-prudential and monetary policy tools in South Africa. The presented evidence also identifies financial asset boom and bust episodes and the associated costly output losses. In addition, the authors explore the amplification of credit dynamics by commodity prices and sector credit re-allocation due to capital inflows shocks. The book’s empirical analysis uses a wide range of statistical and econometric approaches on granular data and economic variables to derive policy implications and recommendations. This in-depth quantitative analysis includes determining inverse transmission of global liquidity, as well as the effects of capital flows, lending-rate margins, financial regulatory uncertainty, the National Credit Act, bank capital-adequacy ratios, bank loan loss provisions, loan-to-value ratios and repayment-to-income ratios on the macro-economy.

Author : Eliphas Ndou
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9783031377549
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fiscal Policy Shocks and Macroeconomic Growth in South Africa written by Eliphas Ndou and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2023-10-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the disconnect between fiscal policy and macroeconomic development in South Africa. It analyses the factors that have contributed to the lack of economic growth in the country over recent decades and outlines an improved fiscal policy framework that increases investment and employment. Particular attention is given to the impact of government debt and its relationship with GDP, the connection between budget deficits and interest rates, and how economic policy uncertainty affects employment dynamics and inflation. This book provides practical fiscal policy suggestions to increase economic growth in South Africa and Africa more generally. It will be relevant to researchers and policymakers interested in African economics and economic policy.

Author : Mthuli Ncube
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137512962
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Global Growth and Financial Spillovers and the South African Macro-economy written by Mthuli Ncube and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-29 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To what extent is South Africa affected by G8 economies and BRIC growth shocks? This book identifies channels that amplify these shock effects, the relevance of third country transmission effects and the effects of the first and second rounds of US quantitative easing. The changing reactions of South African variables over time to financial shocks emanating from the US and selected countries in the Euro area, is presented. The book quantifies the effects of capital flow shocks, determines the counterfactuals of asset prices and economic growth variables, and compares the contribution of capital flows and domestic macro factors on asset prices. The effects of the exchange rate depreciation are contrasted to the decline in investment as key drivers of the trade balance. Stock market interdependence is determined amongst South African, Indian and Brazilian equities. The contributions of stock price returns and volatility on South African economic growth are contrasted. The authors construct a financial stress index for South Africa and determine how it amplifies shocks.

Author : International Monetary Fund
Publisher : INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
ISBN 13 : 9781451841107
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book South Africa: Selected Issues written by International Monetary Fund and published by INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND. This book was released on 2009-09-14 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: South Africa's macroeconomic policies face a complicated task of balancing between supporting domestic demand and maintaining stability. The Selected Issues paper for South Africa discusses economic development and policies. Although the opening output gap and declining employment do call for countercyclical fiscal and monetary policy easing, policymakers should also be mindful of the effects of such policies on external and internal macroeconomic stability. The combined package of monetary and fiscal policies has considerable effects on growth and employment.

Author : Nick Barnardt
Publisher : Van Schaik Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Understanding the South African Macro-economy written by Nick Barnardt and published by Van Schaik Publishers. This book was released on 1992 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Laurent Ferrara
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319790757
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book International Macroeconomics in the Wake of the Global Financial Crisis written by Laurent Ferrara and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-06-13 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book collects selected articles addressing several currently debated issues in the field of international macroeconomics. They focus on the role of the central banks in the debate on how to come to terms with the long-term decline in productivity growth, insufficient aggregate demand, high economic uncertainty and growing inequalities following the global financial crisis. Central banks are of considerable importance in this debate since understanding the sluggishness of the recovery process as well as its implications for the natural interest rate are key to assessing output gaps and the monetary policy stance. The authors argue that a more dynamic domestic and external aggregate demand helps to raise the inflation rate, easing the constraint deriving from the zero lower bound and allowing monetary policy to depart from its current ultra-accommodative position. Beyond macroeconomic factors, the book also discusses a supportive financial environment as a precondition for the rebound of global economic activity, stressing that understanding capital flows is a prerequisite for economic-policy decisions.

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Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book Growth, Employment and Redistribution written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Eliphas Ndou
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031377559
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fiscal Policy Shocks and Macroeconomic Growth in South Africa written by Eliphas Ndou and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-09-16 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the disconnect between fiscal policy and macroeconomic development in South Africa. It analyses the factors that have contributed to the lack of economic growth in the country over recent decades and outlines an improved fiscal policy framework that increases investment and employment. Particular attention is given to the impact of government debt and its relationship with GDP, the connection between budget deficits and interest rates, and how economic policy uncertainty affects employment dynamics and inflation. This book provides practical fiscal policy suggestions to increase economic growth in South Africa and Africa more generally. It will be relevant to researchers and policymakers interested in African economics and economic policy.