Inclusive Economic Development
2 Aug 2019 | HSRC signs $5 million dollar contract with Mastercard Foundation
The HSRC has just signed a contract for a five-year-long research study that will investigate the effect of tertiary education on academically talente...
31 Jul 2019 | EPD innovation studies team leads SALGA consultative workshop
The HSRC Economic Performance and Development (EPD) team co-leading the digitisation of the Municipal Innovation Maturity Index (MIMI), a project fund...
24 Jul 2019 | EDP Presents at Exploratory Workshop to Assist the Northern Cape Innovation Forum (NCIF)
The workshop took place on the 18 July 2019 in Kimberley at the Sol Plaatje University (SPU) with stakeholders who represent the Northern Cape Innovat...
21 Jun 2019 | Professor Leslie Bank involved in launching new African ethnographies at European African Studies Conference in Edinburgh
Professor Leslie Bank, a general editor for southern Africa in the International African Library series published by Cambridge University Press, parti...
30 May 2019 | Prof Leslie Bank gives keynote address at Inclusive Cities forum
Professor Leslie J. Bank gave a keynote address, entitled “Access to the City in a Suburban Nation”, on the 23 June 2019, as part of a lec...
29 Apr 2019 | MIMI is going digital - a tool for assessing municipal innovation maturity
The Economic Performance and Development (EPD) programme, in partnership with the University of Kwa-Zulu Natal (UKZN) and the South African Local Gove...
26 Apr 2019 | Creating Cities of Hope or Instigating a Race to the Bottom?
{published in The Sunday Times, 21 April 2019}A reply to Ann BernsteinIvan TurokAmazon recently cancelled its plans to build a second headquarters in ...
26 Apr 2019 | Realising rights to adequate food and nutrition - a seminar
Dr Peter Jacobs, a research director in the HSRC’s Economic Performance and Development research programme, was an invited speaker at a recent L...
4 Apr 2019 | EPD's Leslie Bank appointed Professor Extraordinaire
Prominent South African social anthropologist, Leslie Bank was recently appointed as Professor Extraordinaire in the Department of Social Sciences at ...
3 Apr 2019 | 2019 National Skills Conference
Vijay Reddy was one of the plenary speakers at the 2019 National Skills Conference Building a demand-led skills development system that focuses on inc...