🪘 This week sees the first hybrid seminar in our series on African inequalities, with @VimalRanchhod discussing inequalities in human capital & labour market outcomes.
📆 Wednesday, 13 Aug.
⏲️ 1-2 pm CAT
✍️🖥️ bit.ly/45HZVZT
Hosted jointly with @saldru.bsky.social at the University of Cape Town
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Also @ #IPC2025: Analysis of how more access to primary & secondary education in Ghana played out in the labour market over time. Prelim. findings suggest increased education hasn't led to more wage employment, esp. for women. By Nicola Branson &
Emma Whitelaw @saldru.bsky.social
🔗 bit.ly/4kJqRgi
16.07.2025 16:40 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
✍️ The authors of 'Disparities in access to paid leave and their implications for gender equality: The case of South Africa' are Jacqueline Mosomi, Muna Shifa, Amy Raub and Jody Heymann.
#gender #education #inequality #LeaveNoOneBehind
16.07.2025 16:40 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Access to paid leave is crucial for reducing health & economic inequalities, esp. for women & low-income workers. A new paper by ACEIR researchers & associates reveals big gaps in access to paid leave in South Africa.
Presented @ #IPC2025 @iussp.bsky.social
🔗 bit.ly/469AWzr
@saldru.bsky.social
16.07.2025 16:40 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
👇 An exciting call for conference papers on frontier research in applied economics relevant to developing countries!
📊 For presentation to academics, policymakers & subject-matter experts in December
📍 Organised by Economic Research Southern Africa & University of Cape Town's @saldru.bsky.social
15.07.2025 15:22 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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#WorldPopulationDay
By 2050, Africa will be the only region with a growing working-age population & will need to produce 2 million jobs/month by 2040 to keep up with the increase in working-age people: study by @davidalam.bsky.social & Murray Leibbrandt
🔗https://bit.ly/45ZF7Ob
@saldru.bsky.social
11.07.2025 12:51 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Sharing Prosperity: Policy Innovations to Tackle Economic Inequality
This event will reflect on the impact economic inequality has on development and development policy, leading into the 11th ECINEQ Meeting.
The growing gap between the rich & poor in especially developing nations impacts development. Join us for a World Bank event where colleague Murray Leibbrandt from SALDRU will input on inequality trends & development policy priorities for sub-Saharan Africa
📅 8 July @ 5 - 6 pm CAT
✍️ bit.ly/44i4Jo7
07.07.2025 15:31 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
#Gender #Growth & #Labour Markets in Low Income Countries– we aim to improve worldwide knowledge on #labourmarket issues in LICs.
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