Research data

The HSRC Research Data Service provides a digital repository facility for the HSRC's research data in support of evidence based human and social development in South Africa and the broader region. Access to data is dependent on ethical requirements for protecting research participants, as well as on legal agreements with the owners, funders or in the case of data owned by the HSRC, the requirements of the depositors of the data. We facilitate data use by preparing comprehensive metadata and disseminating data and related documents to appropriate target audiences. Data sharing is subject to an End User License agreement. Data sets from the following projects have been curated and are available for use:

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2022 The Malabo Declaration and African Continental Free Trade Area: a case for supranational industrial policy

This policy brief argues a case for a supranational industrial policy, akin to mission-oriented policies, supporting the agriculture industr...

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2022 Africa's historic free-trade agreement: 'short-term pain for long-term gain'

The signatories of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) hope that the agreement will galvanise trade in manufactured goods and s...

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2021 After mall economics: high-speed internet and under sea cables

The Nobel prize-winning economist Robert Shiller (2019) has argued that simple stories can have a powerful influence on how markets and econ...

2020 Colonized by the development discourse: life and living heritage in the shadow of antiquities

Tangible and intangible aspects of living heritage shape the identity of communities whose daily experience is integrated into heritage cult...