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| Mbatha, C. Nhlanhla; Antrobus, G.G.. |
| The Physical Externality Model is used to illustrate the potential limitations of blindly adopting formal models for economic investigation and explanation in varied geographical contexts. As argued by institutional economists for the last hundred years the practice limits the value and relevance of most general economic inquiry. This model postulates that the geographical location of farmers along a given watercourse, in which water is diverted individually, leads to structural inefficiencies that negatively affect the whole farming community. These effects are felt more severely at downstream sites and lead to a status quo where upstream farmers possess relative economic and political advantages over their counterparts elsewhere. In the study of the Kat... |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Institutions; Water allocation; Physical externality; Kat River Valley. |
| Ano: 2008 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/47657 |
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| Mbatha, C. Nhlanhla; Charalambides, Nick. |
| The signing of the Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) between the European Union (EU) and the African Caribbean Pacific (ACP) nations dominated the multilateral trade agenda in late 2007 and early 2008. While the Caribbean nations signed the full EPAs, some of the African countries only singed interim agreements with the EU and a number of West African countries chose not to sign any EPA. Using the case of Botswana’s export markets, especially in agriculture, it is argued that the interim Southern African Development Community (SADC) EPA, which was signed by Botswana and her neighbours, with the exception of South Africa, may have been economically sensible in protecting Botswana’s rural poor, at least in the short run. By tracing trade flows from the... |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Botswana; Economic partnership agreements; European Union; Exports; Beef. |
| Ano: 2008 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/47654 |
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| Mbatha, C. Nhlanhla; Antrobus, G.G.. |
| A good indicator of successful farm redistribution cases has to be the continuation of viable productivity rates in their post transfer periods. Continued productivity benefits all the stakeholders that are involved in the process. Unfortunately negative productivity levels have been reported in numerous South African land redistribution transfers in recent years. A game theoretic perspective is adopted to argue that cooperation among key stakeholders, which could be enforced through long term contracts between a land buyer, sellers and new owners, would lead to higher productivity levels and other benefits. Additional benefits would, for example, include market related prices paid by a buyer. Sugarcane farm transfer cases from two municipality districts... |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Sugarcane; Farms; Redistribution; Productivity; Cooperation; Games; Land Economics/Use; Research Methods/ Statistical Methods. |
| Ano: 2010 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/96156 |
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