There’s a correlation between #inequality and #corruption and often the latter causes further inequality: Daniel Kaufmann replying to a question in #StateCapture lecture Development Policy Research Unit (DPRU) Natural Resource Governance Institute Haroon Bhorat

Ratings agencies are using data measuring and predicting #corruption and #governance as much as conventional economic data these days: Daniel Kaufmann Natural Resource Governance Institute #StateCapture lecture Development Policy Research Unit (DPRU) Haroon Bhorat

As #Piketty argues, write Ingrid Woolard and Ihsaan in their study of top incomes based on #SARS data, a significant proportion of the income of top earners comes from returns on capital

Prof Francis Wilson explains to SALDRU how the Mandela Initiative inquiring into #povery and #inequality came about in response to a request by #TrevorManuel to gathering evidence. NelsonMandela

Small projects such as farm school in Colesberg or olive oil co-op in Goedgedacht show us how #poverty, #inequality can be challenged: Francis Wilson Mandela Initiative SALDRU PII NelsonMandela

Universities have responsibility to put policy debates on #inequality, #poverty into broader public space : Judy Favish Mandela Initiative #ScholarshipofEngagement #GrapplingPovertyInequality SALDRU PII NelsonMandela

The #JobsSummit this week will put one of SA's biggest challenges -- unemployment -- centre stage. Here's how a relatively small @TreasuryRSA project, the #JobsFund, has tried to overcome some of the barriers to job creation dailymaverick.co.za/article/2018-1… SALDRU

Thobile lives in Khayelitsha and works in Wellington. He has to get a bus at 4:20am to Bellville train station. From there he takes the train to Wellington, a trip that is supposed to take an hour from Bellville is often longer than two because of delays facebook.com/events/1642064…

Manufacturing in SA has performed poorly since the '90s and employment has declined. Industrial policies have favoured capital-intensive heavy industry. With high structural unemployment, shouldn't policies support labour-intensive growth? econ3x3.org/article/why-ha… Econ3x3

Here is the link: econ3x3.org/article/why-ha…

#JobsSummit: the evidence tells us we need to urgently bridge the gap between school and work, help young people stay in school longer, and support labour-intensive rather than capital-intensive industries. And government could help those trying to make their own living too.

Good discussion with Dr Thami Mazwai. Here’s ⁦REDI⁩ latest book on #informalsector , which now employs abt 2m: The South African Informal Sector: Creating jobs, reducing poverty (Ed: ⁦Frederick Fourie⁩) SAfmRadio 📻⁩ ⁦Bongi Gwala⁩ hsrcpress.ac.za/books/the-sout…

Murray Leibbrandt now in panel discussion on how the emergence of middle classes impacts #inequality & #socialcohesion - with clea The Conversation France Shanta Devarajan SALDRU Vimal Ranchhod Rocco Zizzamia Haajirah Esau AFD_en 🇫🇷 🇪🇺 REDI #WorldInCommon #ConfInequalities

New #NIDS Wave 5 analysis just released. Ingrid Woolard

National poverty lines are updated annually using #CPI to reflect the cost of living & to maintain integrity and relevance over time. The 2019 upper bound #poverty line is R1 227 per person per month. Read more here: statssa.gov.za/?page_id=1854&… #StatsSA

In Africa 14.5% of children under the age of 16 are suffering from the effects of violence – both collective and interpersonal violence – resulting in long-term trauma. #violenceagainstchildren UCT SaVI Sonke Gender Justice ISS Centre for Child Law DSI-NRF Centre of Excellence in Human Development UNICEF South Africa DGMT

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BREAKING: Pastor Paseka Mboro Motsoeneng’s church has been set alight in Katlehong. Kgomotso🌸

Cape Town - #ALERT MIST