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Four creative ways to open university access
Business Day - Neva Makgetla 16 August 2016
Illicit flows could have funded Africa’s development
Engineering News - Natasha Odendaal 21 July 2016
Action needed to avert Africa foreign debt crisis, says report
Business Day - Mark Allix 22 July 2016
The Scandanavian model - an interpretation
Presenter: Professor Karl Ove Moene, Department of Economcs, University of Oslo
Professor Karl Ove Moene is a Professor at the Department of Economics, University of Oslo and the founder and leader of the Centre of Equality, Social Organisation and Performance (ESOP) at the University of Oslo. Professor Moene has published over 60 articles in top international journals, covering a wide range of topics including equality, wage compression, welfare, social democracy, the Scandinavian model, Scandinavian equality, and the European social model, among others.
He is also the author of several books, including Trade Union Behaviour, Pay Bargaining and Economic Performance, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1993 and Alternatives to Capitalism, co-edited with J Elster, Cambridge University Press, 1989.
The changing global trade architecture: Implications for Sub-Saharan Africa's development
What are the main changes in the global trading architecture over the past 15 years? How have these changes impacted on Africa’s economic development and the nature of trading relations between Africa and its traditional developed country partners, the European Union, the UK and the USA, and its main developing country partner, China? What are the implications of 'Brexit' - the UK's departure from the European Union - for Africa's trade? And how has the changing narrative of trade and trade integration impacted on Africa’s own strategy to integrate its market? This issue of Commonwealth Trade Hot Topics explores these questions and offers some policy recommendations for African policy-makers and trade negotiators.
See Journal of World Trade 51, no. 1 Wournal of World Trade 51, no 1 2017 by Faizel Ismail: The changing global trade architecture: Implications for Africa's regional integration and development
Faizel Ismail is Faizel Ismail is Adjunct Professor in the School of Economics, University of Cape Town and a TIPS Research Fellow
Steel - where to from here?
The steel industry is in crisis, with a significant decline in local production, falling prices and global overcapacity. The crisis has seen the dissolution of Evraz Highveld and threats to other major producers. In response, the government is seeking ways to ensure that South Africa retains its core steel capacity – historically a central pillar of the industrial economy. The seminar will explore the global and domestic factors behind the downturn and key options for addressing it.
PRESENTER: DR NEVA MAKGETLA
Neva Makgetla has undertaken extensive research into South African economic issues, published widely, and contributed to a number of national economic policy processes and debates from 1994. Until 2015, she was Deputy Director General for economic policy in the Economic Development Department. Before that, she was Lead Economist for the Development Planning
and Implementation Division at the Development Bank of Southern Africa. She has worked at
a senior level in the Presidency and other government departments, and for seven years was
head of the COSATU Policy Unit. She has a PhD in economics and before 1994 worked for
over 10 years as an economics lecturer.
There are innovative responses to our fragile growth
Business Day - Neva Makgetla 19 July 2016
Opportunities for strategic intervention in the South African agricultural sector: Trade and employment
There is scope for a number of strategic interventions by the South African government to support agro-industrial production. These could make a significant difference to the country’s foreign trade and its domestic employment record. This policy brief outlines the potential impact that a more labour-intensive agriculture sector, which is also focused on high value-added products, could make in reducing the balance of payments constraint and support transformation and employment, particularly in rural areas.
The policy brief makes a case for agriculture’s central role in growth, transformation and empowerment. It is based on TIPS research on Agro-processing, wage employment and export revenue: Opportunities for strategic intervention by Christopher Cramer and John Sender.
Nation reflects the ebb and flow of mining’s fortunes
Business Day - Neva Makgetla, TIPS trade and industry programme manager 1 July 2016
Power and governance in agri-food systems: key issues for policymakers
This working paper presents an analysis of the dominant and growing agri-food system in South Africa, focusing on power and governance as two key factors that critically influence system outcomes. Current approaches towards agricultural development (including food security) tend to under-theorise these issues and thus they may not receive the necessary attention from policymakers.