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As Public Employment Programmes (PEPs) gain popularity as social safety nets the world over, there is very little that speaks to the problem of measuring their impact on local economic development (LED), yet this is a key part of the policy case for programmes such as the Community Work Programme…
- Date Thursday, 14 June 2012
- Venue TIPS Offices, 826 Government Avenue, Corner of Percy St, Pretoria
- Main Speakers Evans Chinembiri & Mbofholowo Tsedu
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Development Dialogue Seminars
07 June 2012
'How the State and Private Sector Can Partner to Boost Support to SMEs: Lessons From Chile and Malaysia'
Stephen Timm is a South African policy researcher and journalist who has written on small business and entrepreneurship for almost 10 years. Between 2003 and 2010 he wrote for Big news, a free sheet newspaper aimed at small business owners. He has since also written on small business for a…
- Date Thursday, 05 July 2012
- Venue TIPS Offices, 826 Government Avenue, Entrance at the Corner of Percy, Pretoria
- Main Speakers Stephen Timm
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Development Dialogue Seminars
18 June 2012
How the state and private sector can partner to boost support to SMEs: Lessons from Chile & Malaysia
For South Africa, the promotion of small businesses remains key to creating jobs and a more equitable economy. Evidence from Chile and Malaysia – both countries with similar emerging economies as South Africa – reveals that by partnering to provide…
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Small Enterprise Development
28 June 2012
SOUTH AFRICAN ECONOMIC REGULATORS CONFERENCE (SAERC)
The National Energy Regulator of South Africa (NERSA) announces the first South African Economic Regulators Conference. On 21-22 August 2012 the National Energy Regulator of South Africa (NERSA) will host the Economic Regulators Conference to be held at Emperors Palace, Johannesburg, South Africa. The purpose of the conference is to…
- Date Tuesday, 21 August 2012
- Venue Emperors Palace, Jones Road, Kempton Park, Gauteng
- Main Speakers Ms Dipuo Peters; Ms Phindile Nzimande; Sh. P.K. Bishnoi
- Organisation National Energy Regulator of South Africa (NERSA)
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Events Archive
04 July 2012
Postponed till further notice: Book Launch - Title: 'Export Promotion - A Decision Support Model Approach'
- Date Tuesday, 24 July 2012
- Venue TIPS Offices, 826 Government Avenue, Entrance at the Corner of Percy, Pretoria
- Main Speakers Prof. Wilma Viviers; Dr. Ermie Steenkamp
- For enquiries or to register please contact RSVP by email: Ipeleng@tips.org.za to confirm attendance
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Events Archive
12 July 2012
Impact of China on South Africa Workshop
TIPS has the pleasure to invite you to a follow-up workshop discussing the impact of China on South Africa. The main objective of the workshop is to engage in a discussion on the impacts of bilateral trade with China on the domestic economy (in terms of employment, wages, output and…
- Date Friday, 27 July 2012
- Venue TIPS Offices, 826 Government Avenue, Corner of Percy, Pretoria
- Main Speakers Professor Rhys Jenkins; Lawrence Edwards
- For enquiries or to register please contact RSVP by email: Ipeleng@tips.org.za to confirm attendance
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Past Workshops
Abstract Using data from two surveys evaluating South Africa's investment climate that were administered by the World Bank, I found evidence suggesting that there exists a relationship between perceptions of managers with regard to labour regulations and firm performance. Firms whose managers perceived labour regulations to be burdensome performed worse…
- Date Thursday, 23 August 2012
- Venue TIPS Offices, 826 Government Avenue, Entrance at the Corner of Percy, Pretoria
- Main Speakers Dinga Fatman
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Development Dialogue Seminars
13 August 2012
Inequality, unemployment and poverty in South Africa
Unemployment and earnings inequality in South Africa have declined in recent years, while the trend in overall income inequality is unclear. Inequality and unemployment both remain at extremely high levels by historical and international standards. There has been a very…
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Second Economy Strategy Project
01 April 2009
Income and non-income inequality in post-apartheid South Africa: What are the drivers and possible policy interventions?
South Africa has historically been ranked as one of the most unequal societies in the world, and while the country has experienced sustained positive economic growth since 1994, the impact of this growth on poverty, and particularly inequality, has been…
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Second Economy Strategy Project
In the face of a long-standing unemployment crisis that increasingly threatens social and economic stability, employment has at last taken centre stage in South African policy, and with this, a focus on the structural constraints on employment creation within the…
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Second Economy Strategy Project
21 August 2011
Asset inequality
The promise of asset-based approaches to poverty, as well as its limitations can be summarised with reference to the popular idiom: “teach a person to fish, rather than giving him a fish”. If the idiom were a development programme or…
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Second Economy Strategy Project
21 August 2012
Banks vital for small start-ups - Stephen Timm
Business Day - 23 August 2012
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TIPS In the News
Business Report - 22 August 2012
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TIPS In the News
23 August 2013
An Appraisal of Local Economic Development Impact Assessment Methodologies in the Context of the Community Work Programme
This paper looks at the strengths and weaknesses of current methodologies in capturing the kinds of local economic development impacts from the CWP. It aims to fill the gap of methodologies available for measuring economic multipliers in a local economy.…
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Community Work Programme
27 August 2012
Small business is where the jobs will be created - Tim Cohen
Business Day - 27 August 2012
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TIPS In the News
Unemployment is one of the biggest challenges facing South Africa. Growth has been inadequate, the skills level requirement of new jobs is continually rising, current skills among the workforce are low and inadequate numbers of low end, unskilled jobs are…
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Second Economy Strategy Project
This paper investigates the potential to harness trade finance to foster the development of a green economy in developing countries. The world is facing multiple crises of sustainability: global financial crisis, climate change, and the overuse of natural resources. Many…
Published in
Green Economy
29 October 2012
Working Paper Series 2012-02 Green Economy Policy Framework and Employment Opportunity: A South African Case Study
In 2012, South Africa remains faced with the triple developmental challenge of unemployment, poverty and inequality. In addition, the country's current economic growth model is heavily resource and energy-intensive, aggravating pressures on the environment and the threat of climate change.…
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Inequality and Economic Inclusion
29 October 2012
Modelling Tourism Demand for South Africa using a system of equations approach: The Almost Ideal Demand System
This research aims to model tourism demand for South Africa from the UK and the USA by using an almost ideal demand system. An error correction almost ideal demand system (EC-AIDS) is used to quantify the responsiveness of UK and USA tourism demand to South Africa relative to changes in…
- Year 2012
- Organisation TIPS
- Author(s) Andre Botha
- Countries and Regions European Union (EU), South Africa
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TIPS Research Grant Papers