Development Policy Research Unit (DPRU)
@dpru_uct
The Development Policy Research Unit (DPRU) based at @UCT_news. Our research aims to inform economic policy surrounding labour markets, poverty, and inequality.
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Center for Global Development
@cgdev
The leading think-and-do tank for #globaldev 🌍 Celebrating 20 yrs of independent research & ideas for global prosperity. #CGDtalks [email protected]
rafa de la vega
@hirschmania
fala tu que eu tô cansado (mais rt que outra coisa) | phd'ing @UNUMERIT; structural change, income inequality
GIZ
@giz_gmbh
Wir arbeiten weltweit für eine lebenswerte Zukunft | We work to shape a future worth living around the world Imprint & Netiquette: bit.ly/giz_netiquette
BRAC
@bracworld
Building a world free from all forms of exploitation and discrimination where everyone has the opportunity to realise their potential.
Amina Ebrahim
@aminae
Research Fellow @UNUWIDER | Areas: #tax #unemployment #development in Africa | South African
Peter van Heusden (he/him) 🇵🇸🇨🇩🇸🇩🏳️🌈🗿
@pvanheus
#bioinformatics at @SANBI_SA, building bioinformatics workflows for (Pan-)African PH. health & justice! married to @rebecca_mep @[email protected]
Georgina Ryan
@georginaryansa
#CivilServant #EnvironmentalEconomics #OperationVulindlela #Water #JustTransition #GreenEconomy #Cirlcularity #SATIED Tweets are my personal opinion.
The Presidency 🇿🇦
@presidencyza
This is the official Twitter page of The Presidency of the Republic of South Africa #AWorkingNation 🇿🇦
Nic Spaull
@nicspaull
Global Education at the Gates Foundation focusing on all things reading & maths in Africa. Digital repository - nicspaull.com
NBER
@nberpubs
The National Bureau of Economic Research is dedicated to conducting and disseminating nonpartisan economic research.
Geoffrey York
@geoffreyyork
Africa correspondent for The Globe and Mail (Canada). Based in Johannesburg; formerly in Moscow & Beijing. Email: [email protected] Bluesky: same user name
Statistics South Africa (Stats SA)
@statssa
Welcome to the official X account of Statistics South Africa (Stats SA). Tweeting you the latest official social and economic statistics.
Dina D. Pomeranz 🟣
@dinapomeranz
Econ prof @econ_uzh, formerly @HarvardHBS. Affiliate prof @JPAL, @cepr_org, @CESifoNetwork. Member BK-IZA. Co-founder @gain_network_. Board @HelvetasCH, IIPF.
Daily Maverick
@dailymaverick
The need to Defend Truth has never been greater. Support free, fair, fearless reporting. Become a Maverick Insider: bit.ly/2OoKhhg
Chris Blattman
@cblatts
Economist & political scientist @UChicago @HarrisPolicy studying conflict & organized crime. My book is Why We Fight: penguinrandomhouse.com/books/636263
Ferial Haffajee
@ferialhaffajee
Yogi 🧘♀️
Justin Sandefur
@justinsandefur
Senior fellow @CGDev.
David Evans
@daveevansphd
Economist @the_IDB. Formerly @CGDev, @WorldBank, @RANDCorporation, and usher at my neighborhood movie theater. My views, not my employer's.
Harald Winkler (@haraldwinkler.bsky.social)
@harrywinkler
Professor at University of Cape Town researching climate change, mitigation, poverty, just transitions, global stocktake. Views are mine. Retweet ≠ endorsement
FinancialMail
@financialmail
Financial Mail is a weekly South African magazine aimed at bringing you insightful, in-depth & hard-hitting business news.
Katherine Eyal
@katherineeyal
Researcher, School of Economics & SALDRU, University of Cape Town. Co-lead on the @CVACS_ZA project: saldru.uct.ac.za/project/cvacs/
Tim Köhler
@timothykohler
Development microeconomist. Research Fellow @DPRU_UCT🇿🇦, Visiting Scholar @UNUWIDER🇫🇮, Consultant @WorldBank, PhD @UCT_news, Affiliate @RESEPgroup
International Growth Centre
@the_igc
The IGC works with policymakers in developing countries to promote inclusive and sustainable growth through pathbreaking research.
UNU-WIDER
@unuwider
Providing economic analysis and policy advice to promote sustainable and equitable development for all. #UNGOALS
Wandile Sihlobo
@wandilesihlobo
Agricultural economist from South Africa.
Leonard Wantchekon
@lwantchekon
Political Economist @Princeton, studying Development and Economic History. Founder and President @ASE_Cotonou scholar.princeton.edu/lwantche/home
Philippe Burger
@philippeburger
Dean: Faculty of Economic & Management Sciences & Professor of Economics, Uni of the Free State, S Africa; 2016/7 Fulbright Exchange Scholar, CSD, Columbia Uni
Emma Whitelaw
@emma_j_whitelaw
Carnegie Postdoctoral Fellow @SALDRU1 | Economics - education & inequality | Views are my own. commerce.uct.ac.za/siyaphambili
SA Reserve Bank
@sareservebank
The purpose of the South African Reserve Bank is to achieve and maintain price stability in the interest of balanced and sustainable economic growth
Neil Rankin
@neilrankinza
Ambler, John K. Samson fan, economist, data scientist, FPL manager (top 9k 23/24), hockey GK dad. Work: @predictive_ins; @Harambee4Work
Josh Budlender
@joshbudlender
Postdoc @SALDRU1 @UCT_news; Labour & Development Economics
David McKenzie
@dmckenzie001
World Bank researcher focusing on small businesses and migration & impact evaluation methods, Development Impact blogger, ...
OPHI
@ophi_oxford
A global research centre @ODID_QEH on multidimensional poverty measurement & analysis @UniofOxford & Secretariat of the MPPN. RT ≠ endorsement
Kgethi Phakeng, PhD(Wits); Hon DSc (UBristol)
@fabacademic
Don’t get it twisted, I have a wicked sense of humour & am only here to inspire & give hope. #DeputyMother #Past3amSquad #MakeEducationFashionable (she/her)
Pedro H. C. Sant'Anna
@pedrohcgs
Associate Professor @EmoryEconomics | Econometrics | Causal Inference | Machine Learning and Data-adaptive Methods. Dad 4x
Bloomberg Africa
@bloombergafrica
The official X account for Bloomberg in Africa. Follow us on WhatsApp: bloom.bg/3UtJY4j Get the Next Africa podcast: bloom.bg/3y2sFhB
Ihsaan
@ihsaanbassier
Assistant Prof (lecturer) @economicssurrey, & associate @CEP_LSE & @SALDRU1. Works on monopsony in labour market, also dev & pol econ w/ focus on South Africa.
Murray Leibbrandt
@murrayleibbrand
Murray Leibbrandt is the UCT Research Chair in Poverty and Inequality Research and the Director of ARUA's African Centre of Excellence for Inequality Research.
African Economic Research Consortium
@aercafrica
Capacity building and informing economic policies in sub-Saharan Africa with three primary components: research, training and policy outreach.
Harambee Work4Work
@harambee4work
Not-for-profit social enterprise that’s supported over 4 million young people & enabled 1.4 million opportunities for work-seekers since inception in 2011.
Jessica Leight
@leightjessica
Development economist, @Yale / @UniofOxford / @MIT. Asso editor, REHO / CER / PloS One / BMC Public Health. Views my own
Children's Institute, University of Cape Town
@ciatuct
Advancing #ChildrensRights through interdisciplinary research, advocacy, and education. An applied research unit of the University of Cape Town @UCT_news.
Finn Tarp
@finnsangle
Danish Professor of Development Economics at @uni_copenhagen🇩🇰, coordinator of @DERG_DK and former Director of @UNUWIDER🇺🇳 (2009-2018). #DERGDK
Noam Angrist
@angrist_noam
Co-founder @youthimpactorg. Academic Director, What Works Hub for Global Education @WWHGlobalEd @UniofOxford @BlavatnikSchool
Jacobus Cilliers
@jacobuscilliers
South African development economist, focusing on education | Faculty at @McCourtSchool | @gui2de_GU and @jpal affiliate | previously at @WBG_Education
Fabio Andres Diaz
@diazfabioandres
African Centre of Excellence for Inequality Research @ARUA_ACEIR/ Rhodes University @Rhodes_Uni. Most recent volume: Truth and Justice in Colombia a.co/3jb4Nu5
@rodrigooliveira.bsky.social
@rod_coliveira
DIAL
@dialdevelopment
DIAL is a team of UMR LEDa @Paris_Dauphine @ird_fr @CNRS dialdevelopment.bsky.social Programme Paires:paires.hypotheses.org
Luis Felipe López-Calva
@lflopezcalva
Global Director, Poverty and Equity @WBG_Poverty Prosperity Vicepresidency @WorldBank worldbank.org
ARUA ACEIR
@arua_aceir
The African Centre of Excellence for Inequality Research undertakes multidimensional & interdisciplinary analyses of inequality in the African & global contexts
Nikita Sangwan
@nikita_sang
Lecturer at Queen's University Belfast #firstgen. EfD Early Career Research Fellow. Interested in environment, gender, and labor.
New South Institute (NSI)
@the_nsi
The New South Institute is a public policy thinktank that works on institution building and democratisation in complex environments
Johann Langenbach
@johannlangenba1
PhD student @SorbonneParis1 |Environmental Economics, Development and Migration | Poverty Reduction | #justtransition in South Africa | Sports enthusiast
Dennis Egger
@eggerdennis
Associate Professor of Economics @OxfordEconDept Working on general equilibrium effects of cash and social protection, migration, and networks.
Ashley Pople
@ashley_pople
Economist, working on climate in South Asia at @WorldBank | Climate, cash transfers, labour, conservation | Previously @UNOCHA and PhD in Econ @UniofOxford
Eliana Carranza
@elianacarranza
@ElianaCarranza.bsky.social Global Lead for Labor & Skills @WorldBank | 🇵🇪 | @Kennedy_School @HarvardEcon | @iza_bonn | Welcoming new ideas & collaboration
Yale Economic Growth Center
@yaleegc
Economics and data-driven insights for equitable development
Society of Labor Economists
@sole_labor_econ
Maria Jouste
@mariajouste
Research Associate @UNUWIDER Focus on #taxation and #socialprotection in #Africa
Piotr Lewandowski
@ptrlewandowski
Economist (mainly labour) & el presidente @ibs_warsaw. Co-organiser jobsanddevelopmentconference.org. Once, music critic popupmusic.pl. Views & rants are my own
Mrinalini Jha
@mrinalinijha22
Teaching Economics @JindalGlobalUNI | Affiliated Faculty @working_india | PhD from Delhi School of Economics (@DelhiSchoolOfEC)
Katherine Eyal
@eyalkatherine
Rikhia।রিখিয়া
@rikhia_
PhD Economics @iitkanpur | MA Economics @JadavpurU | Applied Micro, Development Econ, Gender and Labor| @Glabor_org affiliate
Ugo Gentilini
@ugentilini
Ideas and evidence on social protection; lead economist at World Bank; weekly newsletter; new book "Timely Cash": academic.oup.com/book/58850?log…
VoxDev
@vox_dev
Development economics from research to practice @bjorkmanmartina Mike Callen @caria_stefano @cesicruz @oliverhanney & E Siddique @cepr_org @The_IGC @PEDL_CEPR
GlobalDev Blog
@globaldevb
We believe that good #research makes a difference to #development. We aim to better connect those who plan & act out in the 🌏with those who study it!