Tackling sub-Saharan Africa’s escalating poverty after the pandemic 28th Feb 2022Kim Ingle Murray Leibbrandt and SALDRU affiliate Anda David wrote an article in Finance24, discussing inequality in Africa. In the Media
How to get South Africa’s economy up and running again 28th Feb 2022Kim Ingle On the morning of the 2022 State of the Nation Address earlier this month, Murray Leibbrandt was interviewed in Radio 702’s Early breakfast with Africa Melane show In the Media
Basic Package of Support enters implementation phase 28th Feb 202231st May 2022Kim Ingle The Basic Package of Support (BPS) team is excited to announce that the first BPS pilot site in Atlantis in the Western Cape is now open. SALDRU News
The 2022 Budget 28th Feb 202228th Oct 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 Jun 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 202230th Jun 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