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Civil Society Highlights Ten Challenges in the Struggle against Inequalities

26th Nov 201829th Nov 2018Fazila Farouk

Civil society panellists delivered superb inputs highlighting the challenges they encounter in their work on inequality at the SALDRU/African Centre of Excellence for Inequality Research (ACEIR) and Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) conference on inequalities in Southern Africa.

SALDRU Conference Examines Agenda 2030, SDGs and Inequalities in Southern Africa

24th Nov 201830th Sep 2021Fazila Farouk

Hosted by SALDRU, UCT's African Centre for Excellence in Inequalities Research held a conference on inequalities in Southern Africa, which assessed regional inequalities in the African and global contexts, in an effort to distill lessons from high inequality sites, focussing on Namibia, Botswana, Zambia and South Africa.

Underestimating the Health Inequality Gap

31st Oct 20181st Nov 2018Fazila Farouk

We are proud to announce that Dr. Laura Rossouw, SALDRU researcher and FCTC Knowledge Hub on Tobacco Taxation and Illicit Trade manager, has had an article published in the October 2018 edition of the prestigious Demography Journal. The article is titled “Poor Health Reporting? Using Anchoring Vignettes to Uncover Health Disparities by Wealth and Race”.

Study finds that job search planning produces better results for job seekers

31st Oct 201829th Jun 2020Fazila Farouk

SALDRU research associate, Patrizio Piraino with colleagues Martin Abel, Rulof Burger, and Eliana Carranza found that task planning makes people more efficient in job searches. Not only do they submit more applications, but their applications are also more likely to result in a job offer.

SALDRU Researcher Wins UCT College of Fellows Young Researcher Award

31st Oct 20181st Nov 2018Fazila Farouk

SALDRU Researcher, Dr Brendan Maughan-Brown, received a UCT College of Fellows Young Researcher Award on 10 October 2018. According to UCT news, the

How to take advantage of the Fourth Industrial Revolution to close the vertical pay gap in South Africa

31st Oct 201829th Jun 2020Fazila Farouk By Ruediger Helm (Daily Maverick)

Due to the overvaluation of “white work” and the undervaluation of “black work” during and before apartheid, the vertical pay gap is massive, the Report of the Labour Market Commission under President Nelson Mandela noted.

Promoted to Associate Professor!

31st Oct 201828th Aug 2019Fazila Farouk

Congratulations to SALDRU research associate, Reza Daniels, who's been promoted to Associate Professor in the School of Economics. Daniels is a principle investigator on the National Income Dynamics Study. His research interests include, micro-econometrics; micro-macro aggregation problems in the constructs of income, expenditure, savings, debt and net worth and data quality assessments of micro-data and macro-data.

ETCP Hosts Tobacco Control Stakeholder Engagement Event

31st Oct 201816th Nov 2018Fazila Farouk

A key aim of the stakeholder meeting was to bring together key parties in tobacco control – from academia, civil society and policy makers to discuss the current tobacco control landscape in sub-Saharan Africa (and South Africa in particular) to forge a way forward.

Post Graduate Diploma in Survey Data Analysis for Development

27th Sep 201829th Jan 2020Fazila Farouk

SALDRU, the UCT School of Economics and DataFirst, is running a Post Graduate Diploma in Survey Data Analysis for Development. The course aims to equip individuals to use and critically evaluate survey data.

Infographic Now Available: Accessing the NIDS Public Access & Secure Data

27th Sep 20181st Nov 2018Fazila Farouk

At the end of August, the National Income Dynamics Study (NIDS), implemented by SALDRU on behalf of the Department of Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation, released the NIDS Wave 5 data, together with updated versions of NIDS Waves 1-4. NIDS has produced a useful infographic, which includes step-by-step guidelines on how to download the data.