Jasson Urbach

Jasson Urbach

  • Primary Field Researcher, Enterprise Africa! and Free Market Foundation of South Africa

Jasson Urbach is a primary field researcher for Enterprise Africa! He is a South African and has a masters degree in economics and a bachelors of commerce with majors in finance and economics from the University of Natal in Durban, South Africa.  His masters thesis was on "The Determinants of Labour Force Participation of the Elderly."

He works as an economic researcher at the Free Market Foundation and for Africa Fighting Malaria and has published both in academic papers and in the popular media.

PUBLISHED RESEARCH

Mercatus Policy Series
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Fixing Famine: How Technology and Incentives Can Help Feed Africa

Daniel Sacks, Jasson Urbach | Jun 2009
This Policy Comment presents four types of simple technologies that can make small plots of lands more productive and increase farmers’ outputs and incomes: hybrid and genetically modified seeds, greenhouses, irrigation, and plug seedlings. If African governments reduce barriers against these technologies, the people can mitigate hunger and begin to address the larger systemic problems.  
Journal Article
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Development Goes Wireless

Jasson Urbach | Jun 01, 2007
The introduction of mobile phones has helped to alleviate poverty and improve the lives of the people of Botswana. Economic efficiency has been improved through lower communication costs, increased, labor mobility, and wider access to both banking facilities and information on market prices. Liberalization of the telecommunications market is needed to ensure that the sector remains responsive to end-user needs.

MEDIA CLIPPINGS

Moneyweb

Mauritian reform should alert SA government

Jasson Urbach | Nov 10, 2006
According to the latest Economic Freedom of the World report, SA slid dramatically down the rankings from 37th to 53rd. The index published in Economic Freedom of the World: 2006 Annual Report, measures the degree to which the policies and institutions of countries are supportive of economic freedom. The foundations of economic freedom are personal…
Business Day

Good business tips could come from Mauritius

Jasson Urbach | Dec 07, 2006
According to the latest Economic Freedom of the World report, [South Africa] slid dramatically down the rankings from 37th to 53rd. The index measures the degree to which the policies and institutions of countries are supportive of economic freedom. The foundations of economic freedom are listed as personal choice, voluntary exchange, freedom to compete and…