Santos Bila

An excellent young development policy analyst with experience in macroeconomic policy and analysis, fluent in English and Portuguese language. Looking to expand on these skills by serving the IMF country members.

• Bila, S., Kumar, U., & Meyer-Cirkel, A. (2024). Tax Policy as Industrial Policy in Mozambique. International Monetary Fund, WP, fourthcoming
• Sever, C., Bila, S. (2024). State-Owned Enterprises in Mozambique: Current Situation and Policy Options, IMF Selected Issues Paper (SIP/2024/032), Washington, D.C., International Monetary Fund
• Bila, S., M Biyase, M Farahane, T Udimal. (2024). Foreign Aid and Economic Growth in the Sub-Saharan African countries. Journal of Developing Areas, 58, 1
• Biyase, M., Kirsten, F., Zwane, T., Bila,S. (2024). Tracing environmental Kuznets curves: unveiling the interplay of inequality, urbanization, GDP and emissions in BRICS nations. BRICS Journal of economics, 5, 1, 84-104.
• Bila, S., Khumalo, Z., Nkosi, P., Arogundade, S. (2023). Foreign Aids and Economic Growth in Africa: Does Third-Country Effect Matter?, Studies in Economics and Econometrics, pp.23-42.
• Bila, S., Biyase, M. (2023). Determinants of Subjective Poverty in Rural and Urban Areas of South Africa. Journal of Economic Cooperation and Development, 44, 1, 25-56.
• Ngundu, M., Matemane, R., Khumalo, Z., Bila, S. (2023). The impact of national minimum wage policy on inflation and unemployment in South Africa: A segmented regression analysis. International Journal of Public Policy and Administration Research, 10, 4, 110-118
• Gumede, V., Bila, S. (2022). Applying the National Income Identity Approach in Examining Determinants of Economic Growth in South Africa. African Journal of Economic Review, 166-181.
• Arogundade, S.,Hassan, A., Bila, S. (2022). Diaspora Income, Financial Development and Ecological Footprint in Africa. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT & WORLD ECOLOGY, 1-15.
• Arogundade, S., Mduduzi, M., Bila, S. (2022). Be Nice to thy Neighbours: Spatial impact of Foreign Direct Investment on Poverty in Africa. Economies, 1-20.
• Nqwane, S., Bila, S., Kirsten, F., Arogundade, S. (2021). The impact of perceived inequality on inequality tolerance. Journal Developing Areas, 55, 3, 79-93

• Gumede, V., Bila, S., Biyase, M., Chauke, S., Arogundade, S. (2024). Nature and Performance of the South African Economy. South African Economy. African Histories and Modernities, Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-54180-3_2
• Gumede, V., Bila, S., Biyase, M., Chauke, S., Arogundade, S. (2024). Socio-economic Transformation in South Africa. South African Economy. African Histories and Modernities, Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-54180-3_3
• Gumede, V., Bila, S., Biyase, M., Chauke, S., Arogundade, S. (2024). Macroeconomic Resilience: South Africa and Selected Emerging Market Economies. South African Economy. African Histories and Modernities, Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-54180-3_4
• Gumede, V., Bila, S., Biyase, M., Chauke, S., Arogundade, S. (2024). Government and the Market: State-Owned Enterprises in South Africa. South African Economy. African Histories and Modernities, Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-54180-3_5
• Gumede, V., Bila, S., Biyase, M., Chauke, S., Arogundade, S. (2024). Searching for an Equilibrium: Balancing Economic Development and Market Efficiency. South African Economy. African Histories and Modernities, Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-54180-3_6
• Gumede, V., Bila, S., Biyase, M., Chauke, S., Arogundade, S. (2024). The Institutional Architecture: Reorganising Government for Better Socio-economic Development. South African Economy. African Histories and Modernities, Palgrave Macmillan, Cham,https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-54180-3_7

• Bila, S., Ketchoua, S. (2024). Reevaluating the Sustainable Development Thesis: Unravelling Socio-economic expansion in Africa via Infrastructure development and Institutions, ERSA Conference 'Infrastructure for Economic Growth, Cape Town.
• Bila, S. (2023). The effect of industrialisation on CO2 emissions: Do institutions and financial development matter? EAERE summer school on the big data and environmental economics, Austria.
• Bila, S. (2023). The environmental effect of manufacturing: Evidence from country spatial dependence in Africa, S Bila, African Economic Conference, Ethiopia.
• Khumalo, Z., Eita, JH., Bila, S. (2022). The Relationship between Monetary Policy and Climate Change in Selected African Countries. African Economic Conference, Mauritius.

• The impact of bang regulation on competition and consumer passthrough within the banking sector in South Africa, South African Reserve Bank, Researcher, 2023
• Impact assessments of eKasiLab Programme on Entrepreneurs in Gauteng Province, Gauteng Department of Economic Development, Researcher, 2022
• Measuring the effectiveness of Government Expenditure: A Monitoring and Evaluation Framework for Performance-Based Budgeting, Financial and Fiscal Commission (FFC), Researcher, 11/2020 - 2021

• 2024, South African National Research Fund (NRF), R170 000.00
• 2023, South African National Research Fund (NRF), R170 000.00
• 2022, South African National Research Fund (NRF), R170 000.00
• 2020, Global Excellence Stature, R100 000.00

• Fiona Tregenna, ftregenna@uj.ac.za, University of Johannesburg, PhD supervisor
• Elvis Avenyo, elvisa@uj.ac.za, University of Johannesburg
• Vusi Gumede, Vusi.Gumede@ump.ac.za, University of Mpumalanga