Trevor Manuel

2024 Francis Wilson Memorial Lecture

The second annual Francis Wilson Memorial Lecture was delivered by former Minister of Finance Trevor Manuel. The title was “How to build – and break – a capable state: structural reform and institution building in the democratic era".
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How to challenge a corrupt system

In this piece for D+C Development and Cooperation Magazine, Fabio Andres Diaz Pabon, together with Hafte Gebrihet raise the importance of enabling and supporting those fighting corruption ...
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SALDRU December Workshop 2024

SALDRU will be hosting a new annual workshop, the SALDRU December Workshop: Frontiers in applied economics for developing countries.
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African Foundational Learning Data Hub

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.
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CoRE IPD Summer School

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.
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Less load shedding? Fewer deaths

Joshua Budlender, a Postdoctoral Fellow in SALDRU, shares some key features of his investigation into the effects of load shedding on mortality in South Africa, focusing on Cape Town.
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More than a just transition

South Africa is one of the largest greenhouse gas (GHG) emitting countries due to its heavy reliance on coal for most of its energy needs.