Senior Lecturer in Economics, University of Johannesburg
Academic economist at the University of Johannesburg (UJ), where I lecture on microeconomics and industrial policy. Research interests and areas are wide-ranging, but with a particular focus on methodological issues in microeconometrics and the use of economic analysis for policy. I currently lecture on microeconomics and industrial policy. Affiliated to the Public and Environmental Economics Research Centre (PEERC) at UJ.
Previously worked at the University of Cape Town lecturing public sector economics, quantitative methods and history of economic thought. Recently left the Parliamentary Budget Office of South Africa, where I was producing analysis and advice for parliamentary committees on public finance and economics matters.
South Africa's medium-term budget reflects difficult and contested decisions
Nov 02, 2023 13:31 pm UTC| Politics
The medium-term budget policy statement presented by South Africas finance minister, Enoch Godongwana, to parliament on 1 November 2023 is intended to provide a preview of governments public finance plans over the next...
Budget shows treasury is desperately short of ideas to fix South Africa's economic woes
Mar 01, 2020 13:09 pm UTC| Insights & Views Economy
At the core of this years budget proposals from South Africas national treasury is the admission that national debt is no longer expected to stabilise. In previous years, bar one brief exception, budgets and medium-term...
South Africa's energy crisis has triggered lots of ideas: why most are wrong
Jan 24, 2020 05:54 am UTC| Insights & Views Business
Since late last year South Africans have, once again, been subjected to power cuts by the power utility, Eskom. The need for whats called loadshedding planned power outages led to the recent resignation of Eskoms...
Randomised trials in economics: what the critics have to say
Dec 13, 2019 07:23 am UTC| Insights & Views Economy
The 2019 Nobel Prize has been awarded to three scholars for pioneering recent attempts to answer microeconomic issues in development using randomised experiments. Over the last three decades randomised trials have...
How randomised trials became big in development economics
Dec 10, 2019 05:16 am UTC| Insights & Views Economy
The 2019 Nobel Prize in economics was awarded to three researchers for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty, one which has transformed development economics. What are randomised experiments? And why...
South Africa needs a functioning parliamentary budget office: now's the time to fix it
May 25, 2019 06:47 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
South Africas Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO) is in complete disarray. In the 10 years since it was established by law, and the five years it has been in operation, the Office has failed to adhere to key principles of...
South Africa's new finance minister postpones tough decisions
Oct 29, 2018 19:56 pm UTC| Insights & Views Politics
South African finance minister Tito Mbowenis 2018 medium-term budget policy statement brought no surprises. Standing before the National Assembly on Wednesday 24 October, Mboweni presented the Natural Treasurys fiscal...
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