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Acacia Economics is a boutique consultancy that offers expertise in competition, regulatory, and trade economics across emerging economies with deep roots on the African continent.
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Expertise in Competition, Regulation, Economic Policy, and Trade across Emerging Markets
We partner with competition authorities, regulators, and privatesector clients in sectors such as telecommunications, energy,healthcare, finance, transport, manufacturing and retails.
Our strength lies in combining rigorous theoretical foundations with contextual research. This approach ensures that our insights and submissions are persuasive, consistent, and
impactful across regulatory processes, delivering clarity and credibility for our clients.
Years of extensive experience
Our Areas of expertise
Competition
Regulation
Economic Policy
Trade Disputes
Damages Estimation
Our Sectors
Shaping fair markets across diverse sectors
We provide expert advice on the economics of
competition, regulation, economic policy and
trade in emerging markets
Robust economic research underlying impactful insights.
Acacia Digital
Driving Inclusion Through Digital Finance
Acacia Economics has a deep interest in digital platforms and markets and is spearheading a multi-year research initiative to transform digital financial services in lower and middle-income countries (LMICs).
The research agenda seeks to generate and synthesize evidence on how enablers and accelerants of competition shape market competition, innovation, and financial inclusion in LMICs (as its defined above).
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Research & Opinion Articles
Basic income grant options for South Africa
The recent unrest in South Africa prompted the Acacia Economics team to consider the options for a basic income...
Competition between banks and mobile money providers
We estimate a discrete choice model of demand for banking and mobile money services for Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, and...
The potential of e-commerce in South Africa
The rise of online retail internationally has raised an apocalyptic spectre of empty malls, dying city centres, local factory...