SALDRU News – SALDRU

Murray Leibbrandt receives an honorary doctorate from the University of the Free State

10th Dec 202411th Dec 2024Gabriel Espi-Sanchis

To individuals and organisations with an interest in Africa’s transformation towards a prosperous continent where no-one is left behind by poverty, deprivation, and

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.

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 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.

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 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.

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.

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.