COVID-19 is having a massive disruptive effect on the local and global economy. Since the start of the outbreak, TIPS has prepared and commissioned a number of research reports and policy briefs on the economic impact of the pandemic, and is now producing a weekly Tracker on the economy and the pandemic. TIPS has also held seminars and participated in several panel discussions on the economic impact of COVID-19.
TIPS Tracker: The economy and the pandemic
- 21 September - 4 October 2020
- 7 September - 20 September 2020
- 24 August - 6 September 2020
- 10 August - 23 August 2020
- 27 July - 9 August 2020
- 13 July - 26 July 2020
- 29 June - 12 July 2020
- Week 22-28 June 2020
- Week 15-21 June 2010
- Week 8-14 June 2020
- Week 1-7 June 2020
- Week 25-31 May 2020
- Week 18-24 May 2020
- Week 11-17 May 2020
Policy Briefs
- Towards a reconstruction programme
- A case for water and sanitation in South Africa's post-lockdown economic recovery stimulus package
- A case for renewable energy in South Africa’s post-lockdown economic recovery stimulus package
- Mapping the coverage of stimulus measures in response to COVID-19: What risks remain?
- Reopening the economy: Learning from success
- Macroeconomic response to COVID-19
- COVID-19 and Cape Town: What went wrong?
- Reopening the economy: Obstacles, opportunities and risks
- COVID-19: The South African steel industry
- COVID-19: The South African auto industry
- COVID-19 and small business support: South Africa needs a credit guarantee scheme
- The ratings downgrade
- COVID-19 and the economy: Lockdowns, recession and policy responses
- Coronavirus: impact of an economic slowdown in China on the South African economy
Working papers
Media articles
- TIPS Tracker: The economy and the pandemic (Engineering News – 24 August 2020)
- TIPS Tracker: The economy and the pandemic (Engineering News – 11 August 2020)
- What wine industry can do to keep its fizz amid rising threats (Business Day – 5 August 2020)
- There’s no turning back the clock after Covid – we need a reconstruction programme (Daily Maverick – 4 August 2020
- TIPS: Towards a reconstruction programme (Engineering News – 3 August 2020)
- Focus On Water Infrastructure Should Be Central To South Africa's COVID Recovery Strategy (OOSAKAnews – 29 July 2020)
- TIPS Tracker: The economy and the pandemic (Engineering News – 28 July 2020)
- Grapes of wrath: South Africa could lose 90% of its wine producers due to Covid-19 ban, expert warns (News 24 – 23 July 2020)
- Covid-19 infrastructure response should focus on water and sanitation (Engineering News – 21 July 2020)
- Out-of-control Covid-19 harms economy more than restrictions (Business Day – 20 July 2020)
- TIPS Paper: A case for water and sanitation in South Africa’s post-lockdown economic recovery stimulus package (Engineering News – 17 July 2020)
- TIPS Tracker: The economy and the pandemic (Engineering News – 13 July 2020)
- Presidential Climate Change Coordinating Commission seen as key to navigating South Africa’s ‘just transition’ (Engineering News – 7 July 2020)
- TIPS Tracker: The economy and the pandemic (Engineering News – 30 June 2020)
- U-turn on lockdown will not free up the poor (Business Day – 22 June 2020)
- TIPS Tracker: The economy and the pandemic (Engineering News – 22 June 2020)
- Pandemic dashes hopes for a domestic steel sector turnaround (Engineering News – 12 June 2020)
- Municipalities emerge from lockdown in poor health (Business Day – 8 June 2020)
- TIPS Tracker: The economy and the pandemic (Engineering News – 8 June 2020)
- How Cape Town became SA’s Covid epicentre (Business Day – 28 May 2020)
- Why QE is the best way to fund stimulus needed to get SA through Covid-19 crisis (Business Day – 4 June 2020)
- Placing green stimulus at heart of South Africa’s postpandemic recovery would yield big co-benefits (Engineering News – 4 June 2020)
- TIPS Tracker: The economy and the pandemic (Engineering News – 1 June 2020)
- How a post-COVID-19 revival could kickstart Africa’s free trade area (The Conversation – 26 May 2020)
- We can go green if we don’t let the crisis go to waste (Business Day – 26 May 2020)
- Tips launches Covid-19 weekly monitor (Engineering News – 15 May 2020)
- With the right approach to easing lockdown, two-thirds of South Africans could go back to work (Business Day – 11 May 2020)
- 'We need level 2, fast' (Business Day – 10 May 2020)
- Western Cape Covid-19 infections out of control, warns economist (Times Live – 8 May 2020)
- Tips webinar hopes that Phase 3 holds more promise for economic recovery (Engineering News – 30 April 2020)
- Government should offer debt guarantees (Mail & Guardian – 16 April 2020)
- Risk-adjusted return to work a better idea than blunt limitations (Business Day – 27 April 2020)
- Even essential industries have suffered reduced demand (Engineering News – 24 April 2020)
- Steel industry in financial distress because of lockdown (Business Report – 19 April 2020)
- Organisation calls for govt assistance to ‘reshape’ steel industry post-lockdown (Engineering News – 17 April 2020)
- Risk-management techniques can help plot lockdown exit (Business Day – 13 April 2020)
- News Analysis: Lockdown decision is fraught with danger (Business Day – 9 April)
- Policy demands on South Africa ‘contradictory’ in the wake of downgrades (Engineering News – 8 April 2020)
- The Covid-19 crisis and the climate: A bittersweet moment (Daily Maverick – 3 April 2020)
- How we can make it easier to isolate in crowded communities (Business Day – 30 March 2020)
- Red tape is the biggest threat to coronavirus interventions (Business Day – 16 March 2020)
- Miners in South Africa face 'significant losses' (Mining journal – 16 March2020)
- Lasher lands multimillion-rand order as virus shutters China’s factories (Business Day – 11 March)
- Private sector weighed on by a weak economy and the coronavirus (Business Day – 4 March)
- South Africa miners face major losses if Covid-19 not contained (Mining Technology – 4 March 2020)
- Warning of ‘significant losses’ in South African mining industry if coronavirus outbreak is not contained soon (Mining Weekly – 3 March 2020)