SALDRU News – SALDRU

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.

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.

Summer school on African inequalities starts an ambitious Africa-Europe research collaboration

26th Jun 20249th Jul 2024Kim Ingle

Researchers from SALDRU are part of a team who are laying the cornerstones of a 10-year intercontinental collaboration that will investigate how to reduce inequality so that it reduces poverty and deprivation in Africa.

More than a just transition

28th May 202428th May 2024Kim Ingle

SALDRU’s Joanna Ryan and Ariane De Lannoy provide an introduction to the Just Energy Transition and a Green Jobs project in this article.

LRES Findings Launch Conference: Reversing the legacy of spatial inequality and poverty

29th Apr 202430th Apr 2024Kim Ingle

The LRES Findings Launch Conference was held at the University of Cape Town’s Graduate School of Business. This article shares what was covered at the conference.

HAALSA symposium and Agincourt field visit

27th Mar 202427th Mar 2024Kim Ingle

Members of the SALDRU team working on HAALSA-HARPS, together with SALDRU’s Director Reza Daniels, travelled to Johannesburg for the formal launch of the HAALSA program at a public symposium, as well as several days of associated workshops and meetings.

SALDRU launches research into stimulus effects of Presidency public employment programme

28th Feb 202428th Feb 2024Kim Ingle

SALDRU and Agence Française de Développement launched new research, conducted by SALDRU’s Ihsaan Bassier and Joshua Budlender, into the stimulus effects of the Basic Education Employment Initiative, the largest component of the Presidential Employment Stimulus.

The 2024 Budget – “Staying the Course”

28th Feb 2024Kim Ingle

Andrew Donaldson provides an overview of the South African Treasury’s recently released Budget Review, which this year is accompanied by a Macroeconomic Policy Review.