Articles by Date
February
- Inclusionary housing: A novel approach to building integrated cities — 8 February 2024
December
- Is South Africa heading for a fiscal crisis? — 18 December 2023
- What has happened to the personal income tax base since 2011? — 1 December 2023
November
- Realizing socioeconomic rights with a limited budget — 22 November 2023
- Will the avian influenza fuel food inflation? — 7 November 2023
August
- Why the township economy matters — 23 August 2023
- How to tackle low labour utilisation in South Africa — 10 August 2023
June
- Riding to survive: food couriers in three African cities — 23 June 2023
April
- SRD grants: how they can be used to help young people into jobs — 19 April 2023
March
- How South Africa may leverage the BRICS chair for agribusiness — 15 March 2023
- Education is improving but the message is hard to convey — 2 March 2023
February
- The creative spark of a public employment programme — 16 February 2023
January
- How trade restrictions affect consumers: the case of frozen chicken — 18 January 2023
December
- Time to make cigarette taxes more effective in Mozambique — 14 December 2022
- Budget pressures erode capacity of the criminal justice system — 1 December 2022
November
- Has the Employment Tax Incentive created jobs? — 3 November 2022
October
- How to create jobs and combat climate change — 26 October 2022
September
- Gender, care, and climate change: Why they are connected — 28 September 2022
- How agro-processing can boost regional integration – and development — 21 September 2022
- How big is the illicit cigarette market in South Africa? — 7 September 2022
July
- How land reform can boost inclusive agricultural growth — 5 July 2022
June
- How effective is income tax in reducing inequality in SA? — 22 June 2022
April
- The changing landscape of sustainable finance — 20 April 2022
January
- The politics of economic change — 20 January 2022
December
- The good news in 2021 is in the agricultural sector — 15 December 2021
- The MTBPS makes a start: now we need the policies for growth — 1 December 2021
November
- The case for a Universal Basic Income Grant — 24 November 2021
- The MTBPS clears some fiscal space but it is still a path through a swamp — 17 November 2021
- COVID-19: the measure of learning losses — 10 November 2021
October
- Is South Africa's trade policy failing the agricultural sector? — 6 October 2021
September
- A redistributive approach to paying for a universal pension contribution subsidy — 29 September 2021
- What would it cost to subsidize a universal pension plan? — 22 September 2021
- What is the size and distribution of the pension contribution gap? — 15 September 2021
August
- How the COVID-19 grant has reached the once forgotten — 25 August 2021
July
- Part 4: Fiscal dimensions of South Africa's crisis — 21 July 2021
- Part 3: Fiscal Dimensions of South Africa's Crisis — 14 July 2021
- Part 2: Fiscal Dimensions of South Africa's crisis — 7 July 2021
June
- Part 1: Fiscal dimensions of South Africa's crisis — 30 June 2021
- How basic education has improved in the Western Cape — 23 June 2021
- Inequality through the prism of the pandemic — 10 June 2021
April
- Why women have fared worse in the pandemic — 16 April 2021
October
- The Covid-19 crisis has amplified spatial inequalities — 1 October 2020
August
- Covid-19’s economic effects: tourism’s supply-chain impacts — 13 August 2020
March
- Finance and businesses in the time of Corona — 31 March 2020
February
- The informal economy: Is policy based on correct assumptions? — 18 February 2019
October
- Why has manufacturing employment declined so rapidly? — 3 October 2018
September
- The top 1% of incomes are increasing rapidly even with low economic growth — 12 September 2018
April
- Does moving to a city mean a better life? New evidence — 16 April 2018
February
- Is the growth of labour productivity in manufacturing a good thing? — 27 February 2018
September
- Reservation wages found in surveys can be very misleading — 12 September 2017
August
- Land and property rights: 'title deeds as usual' won’t work — 22 August 2017
March
- What makes the rand so volatile: global or home-made factors? — 30 March 2017
December
- Youth unemployment: what can we do in the short run? — 12 December 2016
November
- The employability of higher education graduates: are qualifications enough? — 21 November 2016
September
- Between the devil and the deep blue sea? The financing of higher education — 22 September 2016
July
- Wealth inequality – striking new insights from tax data — 24 July 2016
June
- Cooperatives: has the dream become a nightmare? — 23 June 2016
- How accurate is our migration data? — 7 June 2016
December
- The inequality of space: what to do? — 15 December 2015
November
- What will housing megaprojects do to our cities? — 10 November 2015
October
- Tax(i)ing the poor? Implications of our high commuting costs — 20 October 2015
- Labour and unemployment in South Africa: towards a ‘grand bargain’ — 7 October 2015
August
- Informal settlements: poverty traps or ladders to work? — 12 August 2015
July
- How effective is VAT zero rating as a pro-poor policy? — 20 July 2015
June
- A national minimum wage: moving the debate forward? — 29 June 2015
January
- What is at issue in the minimum wage debate? — 20 January 2015
October
- Redistribution is part of the toolkit to promote growth — 7 October 2014
September
- How inclusive is economic growth in South Africa? — 9 September 2014
July
- Is the middle class becoming better off? Two perspectives — 15 July 2013
February
- The unemployed in South Africa: Why are so many not counted? — 26 February 2013
- The original criticisms of the Adcorp Employment Index (February 2012) — 20 February 2013
- How will a job-search subsidy create jobs? — 5 February 2013
January
- Reducing inequality to promote growth: a proposed policy package — 30 January 2013
- Minimum wages and compliance in South African agriculture — 22 January 2013