SALDRU News – SALDRU

What we have learnt from the COVID-19 Vaccine Survey (CVACS) Survey 2

29th Apr 202229th Apr 2022Kim Ingle

In mid-April 2022, the CVACS team shared key findings from Survey 2 in a webinar. In this article we share some of these key findings.

In memory of Professor Francis Wilson

29th Apr 202229th Apr 2022Kim Ingle

Professor Francis Wilson passed away on the evening of 24 April 2022 in Cape Town at the age of 82. Francis was the founding Director of SALDRU in 1975 and remained as our Director until 2001.

The complexities of evidence-based policymaking

30th Mar 202230th Mar 2022Kim Ingle Ihsaan Bassier, Josh Budlender and Vimal Ranchhod

This article explores some systemic reasons for challenges in the research-policy relationship, using the Employment Tax Incentive (ETI) as an instructive case study.

Basic Package of Support enters implementation phase

28th Feb 202228th Feb 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.