Spotlight

In this article for Mental Health Awareness Month, Ariane De Lannoy, Lauren Graham and the BPS team draw on SALDRU research to show how poor mental health and multidimensional poverty keep NEET young people stuck in cycles of exclusion.

In this article, incoming Executive Director Matt Edmundson and Deputy Executive Director Clare Hofmeyr reflect on the work J-PAL Africa has built over 15 years and set out their plans for what comes next.

ACEIR researcher Muna Shifa and co-author Lwanga Elizabeth Nanziri describe research examining the intersections of climate-related shocks, financial inclusion, and food insecurity in Ethiopia.

ACEIR researcher Arindam Jana explores what data can tell us about changes in the structural and locational value of property in Cape Town, and what this implies for a fair property wealth taxation policy.

This July, SALDRU welcomed a total of 64 participants from universities, government and industry to its annual Social Science Research Using Survey Data (SSR) and Data Wrangling short courses.

Many Saldrupians featured on the programme, including Vimal Ranchhod, Ariane De Lannoy, Joshua Budlender and Andrew Donaldson. SALDRU research assistant Bulela Njemla reflects on her time at the conference.

June marks Youth Month, a moment to reflect on the scale of South Africa's youth disconnection. A new SALDRU working paper asks the question: is NEET status alone enough to target support, or does vulnerability matter more?

In this Bhekisisa op-ed, Dr Brendan Maughan-Brown discusses how misinformation could suppress demand for Lenacapavir, or LEN - the twice-a-year injection that essentially eliminates the risk of getting HIV.

In this article, Chandré Jacobs reflects on how the July 2021 unrest and increasing community protests in South Africa influenced her PhD research on inequality and conflict.

This short article highlights emerging evidence from the Basic Package of Support (BPS) which supports young people who are out of employment, education, or training to navigate pathways to sustainable livelihoods.

Linked administrative data create new possibilities for analysing education systems. The value of such data lies in creating a system-wide, longitudinal view of education pathways.

SALDRU will host its two annual, one-week training courses at UCT this July, aimed at building practical skills in empirical social science research.

In this article SALDRU–IIASA postdoc Cynthia Lum Fonta reflects on her path from working in clinics to being a PhD student looking at disparities in child poverty in sub-Saharan Africa.

In this commentary on the Budget, SALDRU Associate Andrew Donaldson reflects on the extent to which the current moment truly reflects a turning point – in terms of debt and financial projections, growth, and the performance of government

As part of the Human Capital for Sustainable Development in Africa and Coastal Regions project, Professor Wolfgang Lutz spent three weeks at SALDRU engaging with the locally-based team.

The workshop aims to provide a South African venue where overseas-based and local researchers can present and engage with frontier Economics research under the theme of “Frontiers in Applied Economics for Developing Countries”.

An event was held at UCT to celebrate 50 years since the founding of the Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit on the 10th of December. About 100 people gathered to mark this milestone and hear about SALDRU's history.

SALDRU hosted a lunch to mark Murray Leibbrandt’s formal retirement from UCT. This article by Charmaine Smith draws together the multitude of tributes Murray has received.

In the first week of December, SALDRU’s Deputy Director, Associate Prof. Ariane De Lannoy, and SALDRU’s Director, Prof. Vimal Ranchhod, participated in the international Future of Social Mobility conference in Santiago, Chile.

Using longitudinal data from the National Income Dynamics Study, the authors track individuals moving between historical Apartheid settlement types to determine if ‘exiting’ segregated spaces translates into wealth accumulation.