The 2022 Budget 28th Feb 2022Kim Ingle In this article, Andrew Donaldson reviews the 2022 Budget and references a new dashboard that the Treasury has added to the publications which accompany the budget speech. SALDRU News
Reflection: Archbishop Desmond Tutu deftly combined the art of prayer with strategy 30th Jan 2022Kim Ingle In this Daily Maverick article published in late December, Pippa Green reflects on the role that Archbishop Tutu played in South Africa’s story. In the Media
Basic Package of Support pilot site opens 30th Jan 202230th Jan 2022Kim Ingle SALDRU, the Centre for Social Development in Africa (CSDA) and the DG Murray Trust’s Basic Package of Support team opened the project’s very first pilot site in Atlantis, Western Cape. SALDRU News
The 2021 Nobel Prize in Economics winners and the impact of their work on SALDRU 30th Jan 202230th Mar 2022Kim Ingle In this article, we describe some of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Economics winners' main contributions to economics as an academic discipline, and highlight some of the ways in which these insights and methods have been reflected in SALDRU’s work. SALDRU News
CVACS Wave 1 preliminary findings webinar 10th Jan 202229th Apr 2022Kim Ingle Preliminary findings from the CVACS Round 1 survey were released in a webinar. Though data collection for the first round of interviews was still underway, results based off of the approximately 2000 interviews first conducted were presented at this webinar. SALDRU News
SALDRU contributions to The Oxford Handbook of the South African Economy 10th Jan 202210th Jan 2022Kim Ingle Oxford University Press recently published The Oxford Handbook of the South African Economy. Several of the chapters were contributed to by SALDRU’s Researchers, Associates and Affiliates. Spotlight
Proposed Family Poverty Grant is excellent in theory — but there are problems with its implementation 30th Nov 2021Kim Ingle In a Daily Maverick article by Ihsaan Bassier and Josh Bundlender, the authors explain that choosing of the Family Poverty Grant on the basis of high efficiency of extreme poverty reduction is based on an incomplete reading of a SALDRU report for National Treasury. In the Media
Planning for inclusive growth: What did the COVID-19 pandemic teach us? 30th Nov 202130th Mar 2022Kim Ingle Charmaine Smith, ACEIR communication manager. SALDRU director Murray Leibbrandt, who also heads the African Centre of Excellence for Inequality Research (ACEIR), delivered the final keynote address at the third biennial conference of the African Research Universities Alliance (ARUA) this month. SALDRU News
A contentious grant for the post-SRD era 30th Nov 202130th Nov 2021Kim Ingle Maya Goldman A SALDRU team funded by UNU-WIDER and in collaboration with National Treasury, has written a Working Paper modelling various options for replacement grants when the Special COVID-19 Social Relief of Distress (SRD) grant expires. The project has resulted in controversy. SALDRU News
Siyaphambili group attends USAf Higher Education Conference 28th Oct 2021Kim Ingle At the beginning of October, the Siyaphambili Post-school Research Group attended the 2nd Universities South Africa (USAf) Higher Education Conference. Spotlight