Murray Leibbrandt contributes to forum on inequalities and social cohesion in South Africa 25th Apr 201926th Feb 2020Amy Jephthah Duke University recently hosted a forum on “Inequalities and the Erosion of Social Cohesion in Post-Apartheid South Africa”. SALDRU’s Murray Leibbrandt was one of the presenters at the forum. Spotlight
Applications Open for J-PAL Africa’s Evaluating Social Programmes Executive Education Course 28th Feb 201911th Apr 2019Charmaine Smith Interested parties have until 12 May to apply for J-PAL Africa’s flagship executive education course, Evaluating Social Programmes, which will be hosted at UCT’s School of Economics between 29 July - 2 August 2019. Spotlight
Saldrupians Contribute to New Book on South African Inequality 28th Feb 201928th Apr 2021Charmaine Smith Three Saldrupians have contributed to a new Jacana Media book, "Confronting Inequality: The South African Crisis”. Spotlight
SALDRU Researchers Present at IDRC Workshop on Youth Unemployment in Nairobi 28th Feb 201914th Mar 2019Charmaine Smith Two Saldrupians recently attended and present at a joint International Labour Organisation/International Development Research Centre/African Economic Research Consortium workshop on youth unemployment in sub-Saharan Africa. Spotlight
Announcing the Africa Research Initiative on Identification, Payments, and Governance 28th Feb 201931st Mar 2021Charmaine Smith J-PAL Africa has launched the Africa Research Initiative on Identification, Payments, and Governance initiative that aims to foster evidence on how African governments can leverage payments and ID systems to deliver social protection and other public goods and services, amongst others possibilities. Spotlight
J-PAL Africa is Hiring! 21st Dec 20185th Feb 2019Fazila Farouk The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab for Africa (J-PAL Africa), located in Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit (SALDRU) in the University of Cape Town School of Economics, has a mission to reduce poverty by ensuring that policy is informed by scientific evidence. J-PAL Africa is hiring a Deputy Director. The closing date for this job application is 6 January 2019. Spotlight
Promoted to Chief Research Officer 27th Nov 201827th Nov 2018Fazila Farouk SALDRU’s Dr Brendan Maughan-Brown has been promoted to the rank of Chief Research Officer by UCT’s Faculty of Commerce. Maughan-Brown's main research projects involve interventions aimed at helping HIV positive individuals to link to HIV care services and to initiate antiretroviral therapy. Spotlight
Promoted to Associate Professor! 31st Oct 201828th Aug 2019Fazila Farouk Congratulations to SALDRU research associate, Reza Daniels, who's been promoted to Associate Professor in the School of Economics. Daniels is a principle investigator on the National Income Dynamics Study. His research interests include, micro-econometrics; micro-macro aggregation problems in the constructs of income, expenditure, savings, debt and net worth and data quality assessments of micro-data and macro-data. Spotlight
Post Graduate Diploma in Survey Data Analysis for Development 27th Sep 201829th Jan 2020Fazila Farouk SALDRU, the UCT School of Economics and DataFirst, is running a Post Graduate Diploma in Survey Data Analysis for Development. The course aims to equip individuals to use and critically evaluate survey data. Spotlight
Infographic Now Available: Accessing the NIDS Public Access & Secure Data 27th Sep 20181st Nov 2018Fazila Farouk At the end of August, the National Income Dynamics Study (NIDS), implemented by SALDRU on behalf of the Department of Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation, released the NIDS Wave 5 data, together with updated versions of NIDS Waves 1-4. NIDS has produced a useful infographic, which includes step-by-step guidelines on how to download the data. Spotlight
