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
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
COVID-19 Vaccine Survey (CVACS) 28th Oct 202129th Apr 2022Kim Ingle SALDRU is implementing the COVID-19 Vaccine Survey (CVACS), which aims to collect high quality, timely information to inform the development of campaigns and programmes to improve COVID-19 vaccination uptake in South Africa. SALDRU News
How can we address the interlinked challenges of poverty, inequality and growth in Africa after 2021? 28th Oct 20211st Dec 2022Kim Ingle Several members of SALDRU, ACEIR and our colleagues from DPRU have recently engaged to discuss how we can understand the relationship between growth, poverty and inequality as the basis for actions to ensure inclusive development and the achievement of the SDG goals 1 (ending poverty) and 10 (reducing inequality) in Africa. SALDRU News
Contributing to the SDGs Africa Summit 2021 30th Sep 202128th Oct 2021Kim Ingle UCT and partners hosted an international summit on the SDGs in Africa. Leading the summit’s thematic track workshops on Poverty and Inequality were The director of SALDRU, Prof. Murray Leibbrandt, and Prof. Haroon Bhorat, director of the Development Policy Research Unit. SALDRU News
Gender, ethnicity, place, and poverty: intersectional inequality in educational outcomes in Ethiopia 29th Sep 202130th Mar 2022Kim Ingle There has been little empirical research analysing the extent to which inequalities in educational outcomes changed over time and across population groups in Ethiopia. Muna Shifa examines the levels and trends of educational inequality in Ethiopia, as well as whether gender interacts with other social categories such as ethnicity, location, and socioeconomic status in determining educational outcomes. SALDRU News
From Now On: A video-based intervention to promote HIV treatment among men 30th Aug 202131st Aug 2021Kim Ingle SALDRU researcher Brendan Maughan-Brown completed the development of a video-based intervention titled From Now On, which aims to encourage South African men living with HIV to start, and to stay on, HIV treatment SALDRU News
