Kim Ingle – SALDRU

SALDRU December Workshop 2024

3rd Oct 20243rd Oct 2024Kim Ingle

SALDRU will be hosting a new annual workshop, the SALDRU December Workshop: Frontiers in applied economics for developing countries. While the first full workshop will be held in 2025, an ad-hoc version of the workshop will be held this year on 12-13 December 2024 at the University of Cape Town.

South Africa’s economy needs a shot in the arm, not austerity: 3 key areas where more public spending would get results

27th Sep 2024Kim Ingle

In this piece for The Conversation Africa, Thokozile Madonko from the University of the Witwatersrand, and Fabio Andrés Díaz Pabón argue how public investment can help the future of countries, as opposed to mortgaging it.

African Foundational Learning Data Hub

27th Sep 202427th Sep 2024Kim Ingle

Housed at DataFirst, Africa’s only internationally accredited open research data repository, AFLEARN builds on SALDRU and DataFirst’s long history of data scholarship and capacity building across the continent.

CoRE IPD Summer School

28th Aug 202428th Aug 2024Kim Ingle

Building on the momentum of the Wealth Data Science Summer School, SALDRU researchers Murray Leibbrandt and Muna Shifa taught short courses on inequality and poverty analysis at the launch summer school of the CoRE IPD. The Summer School also served to formally launch CoRE IPD.

Martin Wittenberg: an intellectual giant who brought home inequality’s dwarves 1962-2024

28th Aug 2024Kim Ingle

SALDRU mourns the loss of Martin Wittenberg, who passed away at the end of July 2024. Martin was the Director of DataFirst for 13 years and was a University of Cape Town School of Economics Associate of SALDRU. Read an obituary written by Pippa Green which was published in the Sunday Times on 11 August.

Using Multiple Correspondence Analysis to uncover the structuring of social class and privilege

28th Aug 202428th Aug 2024Kim Ingle

The African Centre of Excellence for Inequality Research (ACEIR) partnered with the Constructor University in Bremen, Germany on their Wealth Data Science Summer School. An interest in better understanding how to use Multiple Correspondence Analysis (MCA) for social science research motivated a Cape Town segment of the summer school. To showcase this method, selected findings from an article are shared.

Young South Africans want to work, not wait; investing in them can fast-track our economy

25th Jul 202425th Jul 2024Kim Ingle

In this The Conversation article, Ariane de Lannoy and Sharmi Surianarian suggest that in the absence of an economy that grows, we can create an economy that moves, and importantly, an economy that moves young people forward, so that they themselves can be the gears with which our rebounding economy can grow.

Notice of postponement: SA@30 conference moved to 2-4 April 2025

25th Jul 202425th Jul 2024Kim Ingle

The new date for the South Africa at 30 Years of Democracy conference is April 2-4, 2025, to be held at the University of Cape Town.

Less load shedding? Fewer deaths

25th Jul 202425th Jul 2024Kim Ingle

Joshua Budlender, a Postdoctoral Fellow in SALDRU, shares some key features of his investigation into the effects of load shedding on mortality in South Africa, focusing on Cape Town.

The impact of systemic shocks on South Africa’s development – a complexity approach in a context of global disorder

26th Jun 202426th Jun 2024Kim Ingle

We are simultaneously experiencing a shift in global power, the growing strength of artificial intelligence, and climate shocks. Their concurrence and the associated instability that this will cause will inevitably impact development in Africa.