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Here is a new paper from the Oxford Economic and Social History Working Papers by Edward Kerby, @MoradiAlexander, and Hanjo Odendaal on “African time travellers: what can we learn from 500 years of written accounts?” ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:f… OpenAccessOxford #twitterstorians #econhist

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Data can help. There are a number of new data sources that, if effectively leveraged, can allow insight into parts of the transport system that were previously difficult to understand. Cenfri ll 71point4 buff.ly/3nqwisB

Professor Nic Spaull is an Education Economist at Stellenbosch University. Amid a reading crisis in SA, he has a strong message for the Minister of Basic Education: the time for talk is over. #CarteBlanche claire mawisa

If you missed the Carte Blanche episode on South Africa’s reading crisis, here is the full 13-min episode: youtu.be/M0-ori7ZNJc When 81% of SA Grade 4’s cannot read in any language, it’s not an overstatement to call it a crisis. We know what to do, Dep. Basic Education needs to act

[NEW BLOG] Infra structure, not top structure. In our blog this week we argue for the need to support the quality of housing delivered by informal supply chains through investment in infrastructure and services 71point4.com/infra-structur…

Sharing this because it's not getting nearly enough love: quartodoc, by Michael Chow Build quarto websites integrated with Sphinx autodoc. This means hosting documentation that is beautiful & consistent with code just got a lot easier #datascience github.com/machow/quartod…

If you're a South African student looking for a paid Dec & Jan internship at an AI start-up, look no further than NOSIBLE AI. We've got a few projects open: 🧵 P.S. If you think your network might be interested, please do me a huge solid and RT this thread 🙏🏻

Another South African company doing cool things: fibertime. Households pay R5 for 24 hours of fast fiber internet. The company started in Kayamandi and it seems like it’s been very successful there and now going elsewhere.

The SARB MPC meets next week for the first repo rate decision of the year. The consensus is that the interest rate will be left unchanged. But, the big uncertainty for 2024 is around the timing for the first interest rate cut - what are your expectations?

'We can avoid our seemingly inevitable descent into more economic misery.' So says André de Ruyter, former Eskom Hld SOC Ltd CEO, in a new series where I interview business intellectuals. In this wide-ranging interview, I ask De Ruyter about where he would go if he was given a

Come see @alexmoradi present a new paper on “Narratives from European-African Encounters (1400 - 1900)” at the Economic History Society. A 🧵 on this fascinating, ground-breaking research.

Analytics reports are coming to your Ploomber apps! You'll get a detailed look at visitors and requests to understand and grow usage. Stay tuned for the released announcement!

The BER, together with 71point4, has compiled a data snapshot that provides an overview of firms submitting, employment and industry trends, and workforce movements. You can find this on our website's Public Interest Research section.

What to learn from 712 journeys of 605 travellers to Africa? Article summary by Edward Kerby @MoradiAlexander & Odendaal in Economic History Review : African Time Travellers: What can we learn from 500 years of written accounts? – African Economic History Network (aehnetwork.org)

Amazing opportunity to come and showcase research at the intersection of text analysis, economics, and history!

The official Gl mark guarantees that the lamb truly comes from the Karoo veldt. #Karoo #KarooLamb #LambLovers #SouthAfricanLamb #LambRecipe #MeatLovers #GrassFedLamb #SustainableMeat #FarmToTable #LambChops #BarbecueLamb #Karoo #KarooRegion #CapeTownEats #SouthAfricaFood

I just released Coding for Economists v1.0.2. This update fixes a lot of minor issues and switches to Astral's uv (Astral) as the recommended package manager. We have some new contributors too. And, big news, CfE also hit 750 stars! ⭐⭐⭐ aeturrell.github.io/coding-for-eco…

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Congratulations to Central Bank of Rwanda on the launch of its Financial Inclusion Dashboard! With 71point4, we're proud to have supported this initiative by developing data pipelines & refining key indicators. We're excited to see how stakeholders use the dashboard for decision-making.