Events
- 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 Monday, 11 November 2013
- Venue 227 Lange St, Niew Muckleneuk, Pretoria
- Main Speakers Dirk Ernst van Seventer, Rob Davies
Introduction to Economy-wide Modelling for Policy Analysis: 11-15 November, 2013 TIPS is pleased to announce a workshop on computable general equilibrium (CGE) modelling, to be held in Pretoria. CGE modelling is one of a number of approaches to economy-wide analysis that have become accessible and practicable as data and computer…
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- Date Sunday, 12 May 2013
- Venue Johannesburg
- Main Speakers Ha-Joon Chang (Cambridge), Mushtaq Khan (SOAS) and Gabriel Palma (Cambridge)
- Organisation Department of Trade and Industry of South Africa (the dti), The Industrial Development Corporation (IDC)
- Date Thursday, 25 April 2013
- Venue Mauritius
- For enquiries or to register please contact rvsan@uom.ac.mu or b.seetanah@uom.ac.mu. The deadline for submitting proposals is May 15, 2013. Selected researchers will be notified by June 15, 2013.
- Organisation Organized by the University of Mauritius (UoM) and the WTO Chairs Programme (WCP)
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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, 02 May 2013
- Venue Lagoon Beach Hotel, Cape Town
PEP general meetings are international events that gather hundreds of participants – development researchers, practitioners, lead experts and policy stakeholders - from around the world, who travel to learn and share knowledge on the most recent methodologies, concepts and findings in the analysis of policy issues related to poverty, economic…
- Date Wednesday, 04 September 2013
- Venue Mauritius
- Organisation Organized by the University of Mauritius (UoM) and the WTO Chairs Programme (WCP)
CALL FOR PAPERS 3rd International Conference on International Trade and Investment Special Conference Theme: 'Non-tariff measures, the new frontier of trade policy?' 4-6 September 2013, Mauritius Organized by the University of Mauritius (UoM) and the WTO Chairs Programme (WCP) Even though import tariffs have declined globally owing to the demands…
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- Date Monday, 13 May 2013
- Venue 227 Lange St, Niew Muckleneuk, Pretoria
- Main Speakers Dirk Ernst van Seventer, Rob Davies
ANNOUNCEMENT Introduction to Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) Modelling with GAMS Workshop Trade and Industry Policy Strategies (TIPS) 13-18 May, 2013 Pretoria Most economics curricula deal with macroeconomic tools for studying the economy as a whole and microeconomic tools for studying the behaviour of individual agents or markets. However, practical…
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Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies (TIPS) is pleased to announce a short workshop on computable general equilibrium (CGE) modelling, to be held at the TIPS offices in Pretoria from 5-9 March 2012. It will be restricted to 16 participants. The IT revolution has allowed techniques that were once the preserve…
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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 Tuesday, 24 July 2012
- Venue TIPS Offices, 826 Government Avenue, Entrance at the Corner of Percy, Pretoria
- Main Speakers Prof. Wilma Viviers; Dr. Ermie Steenkamp
- For enquiries or to register please contact RSVP by email: Ipeleng@tips.org.za to confirm attendance
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- Date Tuesday, 21 August 2012
- Venue Emperors Palace, Jones Road, Kempton Park, Gauteng
- Main Speakers Ms Dipuo Peters; Ms Phindile Nzimande; Sh. P.K. Bishnoi
- Organisation National Energy Regulator of South Africa (NERSA)
The National Energy Regulator of South Africa (NERSA) announces the first South African Economic Regulators Conference. On 21-22 August 2012 the National Energy Regulator of South Africa (NERSA) will host the Economic Regulators Conference to be held at Emperors Palace, Johannesburg, South Africa. The purpose of the conference is to…
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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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- Date Monday, 28 May 2012
- Venue TIPS Offices, 826 Government Avenue, Entrance at the Corner of Percy, Pretoria
- Main Speakers Francis Fay
Francis Fay is Deputy Head of Unit in DG Agriculture and Rural Development of the European Commission, in the unit for Africa, Caribbean and the Pacific, G20/G8 and FAO. He has been closely associated with the development of agricultural product quality policy, including the protection in the EU of geographical…
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- Date Monday, 15 October 2012
- Venue TIPS Boardroom
- Main Speakers Dirk Ernst van Seventer, Rob Davies
- For enquiries or to register please contact Dirk Ernst van Seventer via Email: denves@xtra.co.nz / Rob Davies via Email: robdavieszim@gmail.com
Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies (TIPS) is pleased to announce a short workshop on computable general equilibrium (CGE) modelling, to be held in Pretoria from 15-19 October 2012. The IT revolution has allowed techniques that were once the preserve of a handful of leading theoreticians to become part of the…
- Date Wednesday, 24 October 2012
- Organisation University of Mauritius (UoM) and the WTO Chairs Programme (WCP)
Call for Papers The organizing committee invites abstract submission (Max 300 words) from researchers and practitioners in the field of international trade, finance and investment. All abstracts should be formatted to facilitate the review process. Author's names and details, including names of all co-authors plus affiliations and addresses for general…
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The deadline for submission of paper outlines is 25 April 2012. Successful authors will be notified by 30 April 2012 and will receive a £4,000 (Four thousand UK pounds sterling) commissioning fee, which will be paid upon submission of the finalised paper on 1 June 2012.
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