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Research on water tax featured as Editor's Pick on UNESCO forum

An article written by three staff members of UP's Department of Economics was featured as the Editor's Pick on the Global Water Forum (GWF), an online resource publishing concise, open-access articles from leading researchers on water governance, policy and science.

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The fruit industry's big problem

Fruit flies are a major threat to fruit production because infested fruit cannot be sold and production costs increase due to costly management techniques, resulting in increased fruit prices.

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The fruit industry's big problem

Fruit flies are a major threat to fruit production because infested fruit cannot be sold and production costs increase due to costly management techniques, resulting in increased fruit prices.

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Paper on the effect of global capital flows receives award

Professor Nicola Viegi of the Department of Economics and his PhD student Haakon Kavli received the award for best paper in macroeconomics at the Economic Society of South Africa Conference, held in September 2015.

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South Africa's competitiveness as a tourist destination examined

The South African government recognises the tourism sector's potential to create employment and bring about economic growth, and has prioritised this sector as one of the six core pillars of growth in the countryís New Growth Path framework.

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South Africa developing a booming crocodile economy

How do you get a crocodile to urinate in a cup? That is one of the questions that Dr Jan Myburgh from the University of Pretoria (UP) and his colleagues have had to research in order to develop reliable, effective ways of monitoring the health of farmed crocodiles in anticipation of a coming boom in the local industry.