South Africa’s civil service should be restructured, but a plan to reward early retirement won’t solve the problem – economist 28th Nov 2024Kim Ingle South Africa’s finance minister, Enoch Godongwana, announced in his October 2024 mid-term budget policy statement that cabinet had approved funding for an early retirement programme to reduce the public sector wage bill. In this article in The Conversation, Andrew Donaldson explains that past initiatives of this kind have done little to reduce costs. In the Media
Basic Package of Support: way forward, and a Tracer Study 28th Nov 202428th Nov 2024Kim Ingle Having shown positive outcomes, the Basic Package of Support is now focused on consolidating its approach, exploring ways to scale up, and conducting a longer-term impact study. SALDRU News
Advancing women in economics education, teaching, and research in South Africa: Progress and potential 28th Nov 2024Kim Ingle This article profiles gender gaps in economics higher education, teaching and research in South Africa to prompt informed reflection and debate. SALDRU News
SALDRU and the African Leadership Initiative host pre-SA@30 years of democracy conference policy dialogue 27th Nov 202428th Nov 2024Kim Ingle SALDRU and ALI have entered a collaboration to host 3 pre-conference policy dialogues to raise awareness of key issues that the Government of National Unity of South Africa need to be aware of as we embark upon the most important 5-year period of the democratic dispensation. The first of these policy dialogues was held on the 6th of November 2024. SALDRU News
SALDRU December Workshop 2024 Programme 21st Nov 20249th Dec 2024Kim Ingle The programme for the SALDRU December Workshop 2024 on 12-13 December 2024. Spotlight
How to challenge a corrupt system 28th Oct 2024Kim Ingle In this piece for D+C Development and Cooperation Magazine, Fabio Andres Diaz Pabon, together with Hafte Gebrihet from The Nelson Mandela School of Public Governance, raise the importance of enabling and supporting those fighting corruption for challenging corruption systems and enabling the achievement of developmental goals. In the Media
Assessing the health and sociological impacts of a Basic Income Grant 28th Oct 202413th Nov 2024Kim Ingle SALDRU is partnering with colleagues at the University of Pennsylvania to develop a proposal for a large, clustered, randomized control trial of the impact of a cash transfer (equivalent to proposed amounts for a BIG) on health and social outcomes. SALDRU News
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. SALDRU News
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. In the Media
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. SALDRU News
