Valuable Learnings at Marseilles Conference 2nd Jul 20182nd Jul 2018Fazila Farouk In its 16th year, the Journee Louis-Andre Gerard-Varet (LAGV), has become the most important yearly conference in public economics in Europe. Sara Tonini presented a joint paper with Peng Zhang on ethnic diversity and labour market dynamics in South Africa. Spotlight
Congratulations on Getting your PhD Gibson! 2nd Jul 20182nd Jul 2018Fazila Farouk Gibson Mudiriza, Graduate Associate at the Poverty and Inequality Initiative, graduated with a PhD on 22 June 2018. Mudiriza's thesis examined the spatial patterns, convergence dynamics and causes of regional wage disparities in post-apartheid South Africa. Spotlight
NIDS at the Summer Institute in Computational Social Science at UCT 2nd Jul 2018Fazila Farouk The Summer Institute in Computational Social Science at UCT was held from 18 – 29 June 2018. Chido Chinogurei, a NIDS data analyst was a teaching assistant for the conference. NIDS was also represented by Kim Ingle of NIDS who presented in two sessions for the conference. Spotlight
Post Grad Diploma Students Graduate! 31st May 201829th Jan 2020Fazila Farouk The second batch of students from the “Postgraduate Diploma in Survey Data Analysis for Development” graduated in April 2018. DataFirst, SALDRU and the UCT School of Economics offers this one-year full time or two-year part time Post-Graduate Diploma in Survey Data Analysis for Development. Spotlight
Paper on Urban Poverty Dynamics in South Africa Presented at Oxford Conference 31st May 20181st Jun 2018Fazila Farouk SALDRU researcher, Rocco Zizzamia, presented a paper titled, “Poverty dynamics and life trajectories in urban South Africa: A mixed methods investigation”, at the Centre for the Study of African Economies conference, held in Oxford between the 18th and 20th of March 2018. Spotlight
Green Honoured to Facilitate Launch of Book on Prominent Anti-Apartheid Activist Family 28th May 201810th Jan 2022Fazila Farouk SALDRU’s Pippa Green was honoured to facilitate the discussion at the launch of the book, "My Father Died for This", by Lukhanyo and Abigail Calata, a family biography that includes the story of Fort Calata who was brutally murdered by the apartheid regime. Spotlight
Saldrupian on Jury at Public Defence of PhD at Ghent University 26th Mar 201829th Jul 2018Fazila Farouk SALDRU’s senior researcher, Brendan Maughan-Brown who works on our iLink Project - Incentives for Linkage to HIV Treatment and Care - recently returned from Ghent University in Belgium where he was a jury member at the public defence of a PhD by Roxanne Beauclair. Spotlight
Patrizio Piraino Becomes J-PAL Affiliate 28th Feb 201828th Feb 2018Fazila Farouk Patrizio Piraino, a SALDRU Research Associate, has been selected as a J-PAL affiliate. J-PAL affiliates are professors based at 52 universities around the world who conduct randomized evaluations to design, evaluate, and improve programs and policies aimed at reducing poverty, and publish the results of these evaluations in high-quality economics journals. Spotlight
Highlighting Africa’s Water Challenges in Europe 27th Feb 201827th Feb 2018Fazila Farouk Visiting Professor at SALDRU and the Poverty and Inequality Initiative, Hiroyuki Hino, travelled to Brussels to speak at an event hosted by Think Tank, Friends of Europe. The event was titled “Europe, Japan and Africa: Facing up together to Africa’s infrastructure challenges”. Spotlight
Tobacco Taxation and the Poor 26th Feb 201827th Feb 2018Fazila Farouk Corne Van Walbeek of SALDRU’s Economics of Tobacco Control Project (ETCP) made a presentation to the Dutch Alliance for a Smoke Free Society at a meeting in Den Haag. He talked about the significance of tobacco taxes and how to make progress in reducing affordability while mitigating any negative impacts on the poor. Spotlight
