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Development Dialogue Seminars
The Development Dialogue Seminar is a seminar series hosted by TIPS. The seminars offer a platform to share views and ideas on specific development issues and alternative policy strategies.
Though the seminar programme has been designed for government officials for whom the themes tackled are of relevance, the seminars fact focuses on a wide range of topical development issues. The themes covered span the informal economy to specific trade negotiation challenges. The seminars also attempts to offer perspectives from other countries in the region and beyond.
Who can attend?
Government officials and others who contribute to policy are targeted by the seminar series but all are welcome, though places are limited.
If you would like to attend please contact Rozale Sewduth at rozale@tips.org.za. Please specify food allergies if any, as a light lunch will be served prior to the seminar.
- Date Thursday, 04 September 2014
- Venue SEBS seminar suite, 1st Floor ???????? New Commerce Building, West Campus, Wits University, Johannesburg
Alice Amsden Memorial Lecture Speaker – Professor Stephanie Seguino How Economies Grow: Alice Amsden and the Real World Economics of Late Industrialisation 4 September 2014 - 18:30 for 19:00 (light dinner served) ABOUT THE SPEAKER Stephanie Seguino is Professor of Economics at the University of Vermont, USA; Professorial Research Associate…
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- Date Tuesday, 22 July 2014
- Main Speakers Dinga Fatman, Economist at TIPS
TIPS recently completed a study investigating the impact of the controversial Eskom electricity supply agreement with Aluminium mining conglomerate BHP Billiton using a cost-benefit analysis (CBA) methodology to assess the costs and benefits to society of cancelling the special pricing agreement (SPA) that Eskom has with BHP Billiton. The CBA considered…
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- Date Friday, 04 July 2014
- Organisation TIPS
TIPS recently completed a study investigating how South Africa can improve the strategic use of its technical infrastructure (which include SABS, NMISA, SANAS, and NRCS) in a way that maximises enforcement by creating linkages with other measures such as import controls, consumer protection and customs and administrative procedures in order to…
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- development_dialogue_seminar_-technical_regulations.pdf (821 Downloads)
- Date Friday, 04 July 2014
- Venue TIPS Boardroom, 227 Lange Street, Nieuw Muckleneuk, Pretoria
- Main Speakers Mbofholowo Tsedu is an Assistant Programme Manager for the Industrial Development pillar at TIPS primarily focused on trade and industrial policy issues. Mbofholowo has been engaged in numerous industrial policy-related studies including on designation, local content reporting, sector strategies and localisation. He also has been responsible for providing supplementary research support to TIPS’s other pillars. Mbofholowo has an economics degree from the University of Pretoria and is completing a MSc programme focused on Industrialisation, Trade and Economic Policy at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland.
TIPS recently completed a study investigating how South Africa can improve the strategic use of its technical infrastructure in a way that maximises enforcement by creating linkages with other measures such as import controls, consumer protection and customs and administrative procedures in order to grow the local manufacturing sector and…
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- development_dialogue_seminar-tech_reg.pdf (837 Downloads)
- Date Monday, 19 May 2014
- Venue Small Enterprise Finance Agency (SEFA), Building D ???????? Eco Fusion 5, Eco Park, Witch-Hazel Avenue, Centurion
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Main Speakers
Seminar by Milton Bateman: Moving from failed ‘anti-developmental’ microcredit to a ‘developmental’ local financial system in South Africa: exploring the key institutions, problems and prospects.
About the speaker
BATEMAN, MILFORD is a freelance consultant on local economic development policy and, since 2005 he has been Visiting Professor of Economics at Juraj Dobrila University of Pula, Croatia. He has PhD from University of Bradford, UK, and was a UK University-based lecturer in East European economics and a consultant on local economic development policy, before becoming a full-time consultant on local economic development policy working on local economic development policy and program design and across Eastern Europe, Middle East, China, South Africa and Colombia. Dr Bateman has published widely on issues of local economic and social development through several edited books on entrepreneurship and SME development and a number of peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters. He is the author of ‘Why Doesn’t Microfinance Work? The Destructive Rise of Local Neoliberalism’ published by Zed Books in 2010.
- Organisation TIPS and SEFA, in association with the SA-EU Dialogue Facility
Seminar by Milford Bateman: Moving from failed 'anti-developmental' microcredit to a 'developmental' local financial system in South Africa: exploring the key institutions, problems and prospects. About the speaker Milford Bateman is a freelance consultant on local economic development policy. Since 2005 he has been Visiting Professor of Economics at Juraj…
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- milford_bateman_sefa_presentation.pdf (882 Downloads)
- Date Monday, 19 May 2014
- Venue TIPS Boardroom, 227 Lange Street, Nieuw Muckleneuk, Pretoria
- Main Speakers Jose Gabriel Palma is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Economics, Cambridge University. He has a D. Phil in Economics from Oxford University, a PHD from Cambridge University (by incorporation) and a D. Phil in Political Science from Sussex University. He worked during the Government of Salvador Allende in the nationalisation of the copper industry, and after his graduate work in the UK he worked as a lecturer at the universities of London, Sussex, Oxford and Cambridge. He has published articles and books dealing with the economics of developing countries, with a strong focus on Latin America and Asia. He has also written extensively on inequality, financial liberalisation and financial crises, industrial policy, the history of ideas in development economics and politics, and Latin American economic history.
Why is inequality so unequality across the works? And why is it so difficult to do something about it in middle income countries?- Seminar by Jose Gabriel Palma Jose Gabriel Palma is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Economics, Cambridge University. He has a D. Phil in Economics from Oxford University,…
- Date Wednesday, 16 April 2014
- Venue TIPS Boardroom, 227 Lange Street, Nieuw Muckleneuk, Pretoria
- Main Speakers Sheila Farrell
South Africa has significant possibilities to grow its ship repair and boat building industry, with a large market in need of such services and a base from which the South African industry can emerge. These industries are labour intensive and have linkages to a range of other sectors. There are,…
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- development_dialogue_seminar_ship_repair.pdf (981 Downloads)
- Date Thursday, 06 March 2014
- Venue TIPS Boardroom, 227 Lange Street, Nieuw Muckleneuk, Pretoria
- Main Speakers Maduna Ngobeni, Department of Energy; Karen Breytenbach, National Treasury; Brian Day, Cennergi; and Gaylor Montmasson-Clair, Georgina Ryan and Katlego Moilwa, TIPS
- Organisation TIPS and the University of Johannesburg's Centre for Competition, Regulation and Economic Development
South Africa is in a unique position to benefit from the transition to a greener development path, particularly owing to the country's abundance in renewable resources (solar and wind predominantly). Accordingly, the country has demonstrated an increasing commitment to sustainable development, notably in the field of renewable energy. Recognising the…
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- Date Thursday, 23 January 2014
- Venue TIPS Boardroom, 227 Lange Street, Nieuw Muckleneuk, Pretoria
- Main Speakers Dr Babatunde Omilola, Economic Advisor, United National Development Programme (UNDP) in South Africa.
The adoption of the Millennium Declaration in 2000 by all Member States of the United Nations was a defining moment for global development cooperation. In recognition of the need to translate this commitment into action, the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) were adopted. The MDGs have defined a common framework of…
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- presentation_-_post-2015_omilola.pdf (842 Downloads)
- Date Wednesday, 23 October 2013
- Venue IDC Auditorium - Training Room 3 & 4, 19 Fredman Drive, Sandton, Johannesburg
- Main Speakers Brendan Vickers, Chief Director: Research and Policy, the dti Gaylor Montmasson-Clair, Assistant Programme Manager: Sustainable Growth, TIPS Jorge Maia, Head of Research and Information, IDC
- Organisation TIPS, the Department of Trade and Industry (the dti), and the Industrial Development Corporation (IDC)
There is growing concern that measures already in place or potentially adopted by developed countries to combat climate change could be trade distortionary, introduce new forms of 'green protectionism' and/or be discriminatory. Such policy and regulatory measures may range from emissions trading schemes (e.g. the EU's deferred airlines tax) to…
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- energy_efficiency_presentation_-_j_maia_idc.pdf (1110 Downloads)
- Date Tuesday, 17 September 2013
- Venue IDC Auditorium - Training Room 3 & 4, 19 Fredman Drive, Sandton, Johannesburg
- Main Speakers Evans Chinembiri, Tinashe Kapuya, Jerry Vilakazi, Shibe Maruatona, Brendan Vickers
The African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) is a unilateral trade policy concession governing United States and sub-Saharan Africa trade and investment relations. AGOA enhances US market access for 40 Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries, including South Africa. Signed into law by the US Congress in May 2000, AGOA has been…
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- Date Tuesday, 03 September 2013
- Venue Holiday Inn, 123 Rivonia Road, Sandton, Johannesburg
- Main Speakers Jose Gabriel Palma
ABOUT THE SPEAKER José Gabriel Palma is currently a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Economics, Cambridge University. He has a D. Phil in Economics from Oxford University, a PHD from Cambridge University (by incorporation) and a D. Phil in Political Science from Sussex University. He worked during the Government…
- Date Friday, 23 August 2013
- Venue TIPS Boardroom, 227 Lange St, Nieuw Muckleneuk, Pretoria
- Main Speakers Susan Newman, Samantha Ashman
Susan Newman currently holds the position of lecturer in international economics at the International Institute of Social Studies, Erasmus University of Rotterdam. Her main research interests include the political economy of post-apartheid industrial development in South Africa, the relationship between financial and physical markets for commodities, and the relationship between…
- Date Monday, 12 August 2013
- Venue TIPS Boardroom, 227 Lange St, Nieuw Muckleneuk, Pretoria
- Main Speakers Sheila Farrell
Sheila Farrell is an experienced international ports consultant who has undertaken around 120 port consulting assignments in more than 50 countries, most of them concerned with port economics and finance, tariff setting, port reform and privatisation, and regulation. Several of the projects have been linked to the development of port-related…
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- Date Tuesday, 02 July 2013
- Venue TIPS Office, 227 Lange Street, Nieuw Muckleneuk, Pretoria.
- Main Speakers Presenter: Melani Prinsloo, Centre for Democratising Information (CDI)
- Organisation Centre for Democratising Information (CDI)
Abstract CDI's Context of Public Primary Education Research Project is an extension of this South African Community Capability Study, in that it further zooms into the education dimension within communities by investigating its relationship to formal schooling in its location. Part of this project attention is paid to the Community…
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- Date Thursday, 11 April 2013
- Venue TIPS Office, 227 Lange Street, Nieuw Muckleneuk, Pretoria.
- Main Speakers Main presenter: Jeremy Wakeford, Association for the Study of Peak Oil and Gas (ASPO) South Africa Discussant: Bongani Motsa, Department of Energy
Abstract: The International Energy Agency stated in its World Energy Outlook 2012 that global conventional crude oil production peaked in 2008. Total world oil exports have been stagnant since 2005 as oil exporting countries consume more of their own output and some battle against depletion. Unconventional oil production is…
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- Date Thursday, 23 August 2012
- Venue TIPS Offices, 826 Government Avenue, Entrance at the Corner of Percy, Pretoria
- Main Speakers Dinga Fatman
Abstract Using data from two surveys evaluating South Africa's investment climate that were administered by the World Bank, I found evidence suggesting that there exists a relationship between perceptions of managers with regard to labour regulations and firm performance. Firms whose managers perceived labour regulations to be burdensome performed worse…
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- Date Thursday, 05 July 2012
- Venue TIPS Offices, 826 Government Avenue, Entrance at the Corner of Percy, Pretoria
- Main Speakers Stephen Timm
Stephen Timm is a South African policy researcher and journalist who has written on small business and entrepreneurship for almost 10 years. Between 2003 and 2010 he wrote for Big news, a free sheet newspaper aimed at small business owners. He has since also written on small business for a…
- Date Thursday, 14 June 2012
- Venue TIPS Offices, 826 Government Avenue, Corner of Percy St, Pretoria
- Main Speakers Evans Chinembiri & Mbofholowo Tsedu
As Public Employment Programmes (PEPs) gain popularity as social safety nets the world over, there is very little that speaks to the problem of measuring their impact on local economic development (LED), yet this is a key part of the policy case for programmes such as the Community Work Programme…
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- Date Friday, 01 June 2012
- Venue TIPS Offices, 826 Government Avenue, Entrance at the Corner of Percy, Pretoria
- Main Speakers Ellen Hagerman, Glen Robbins
Ellen Hagerman has nearly 10 years of experience working on regional economic development issues including trade, infrastructure, food security and governance. She has worked for the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) for 13 years as a Program Manager and Senior Analyst and has covered a diversity of other issues including…
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