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John M. Luiz
Researcher at University of Cape Town
Publications - 114
Citations - 2526
John M. Luiz is an academic researcher from University of Cape Town. The author has contributed to research in topics: Emerging markets & Multinational corporation. The author has an hindex of 25, co-authored 109 publications receiving 2232 citations. Previous affiliations of John M. Luiz include Vista University & University of Sussex.
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The politics of state, society and economy
TL;DR: The authors argue that differences in growth rates between countries can be traced to the capacity of the state and political system and highlight the role of the elite in the development process, the necessity for a competent and insulated economic bureaucracy, and the significance of embedded autonomy for the state.
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The Political Economy of Middle‐Income Traps: Is South Africa in a Long‐Run Growth Trap? The Path to “Bounded Populism”
TL;DR: The authors look at the dynamics of how economic modernisation triggers structural changes with winners and losers and how this is reflected in the polarisation of the political sphere amongst middle-income countries.
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The wealth of some and the poverty of Sub Saharan Africa
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the nature and causes of the region's marginalisation and examine the prospects for their reversal, concluding that part of the underdevelopment is due to bad luck, initial conditions and an unfavourable international economic environment.
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The multinationalisation of South African telecommunications firms into Africa
John M. Luiz,Henry Stephan +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the main factors considered by telecommunications firms when making a decision to undertake Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) into Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), which encompasses the reasons for investing, the methods of entry into the identified market and the factors influencing their decision.
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Introducing a national health insurance system in South Africa: a general practitioner's bottom-up approach to costing
TL;DR: GPs appear to have an affordable and pro-active response to NHI capitation costing and fee setting, and government could affordably use GPs to develop the primary health care part of NHI to cover the entire South African uninsured population.