Dr Justin Paul Visagie
Dr Justin Visagie is a Senior Research Specialist in the Inclusive Economic Development (IED) research programme at the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC). Dr Visagie has expertise in microeconomic data analysis and has worked on a wide array of cross-sectional and longitudinal household datasets.
His recent research projects cover issues of regional economic development, city-region economies, tradable services, spatial inequality and inclusion, social mobility, urbanisation, housing and migration. Alongside his solid quantitative training as an economist, Dr Visagie finds it rewarding working within a multi-disciplinary environment such as the HSRC. Dr Visagie assumed a position at the HSRC in 2017 after serving as the Director of Economic Planning and Research at the Department of Economic Development, Environmental Affairs and Tourism in the Eastern Cape from 2012 to 2016. Before this he was finishing his Master and PhD studies where he lectured at the University of KwaZulu-Natal and Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University.
Dr Visagie completed his PhD in Economics at the University of KwaZulu-Natal where he won the prestigious Founders' medal from the Economic Society of South Africa (ESSA) for his thesis on the development of the middle class in South Africa. Dr Visagie also received ESSA awards for his Master and Honour level research dissertations. He completed his undergraduate studies in Politics, Philosophy and Economics. Dr Visagie has published more than ten peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters whilst contributing to many research papers and reports at the HSRC. Dr Visagie is also involved in publishing regularly in online news and print media including articles for the Mail and Guardian, Daily Maverick, Sunday Times, Financial Mail, Business Day and The Conversation. Similarly, one of Dr Visagie?s policy briefs about the middle class in South Africa on Econ3x3.org has reached nearly 100,000 reads, which is a record on that platform. He has been an active member of the Public Sector Economist Forum where he was invited to present a keynote address in 2019.
Housing and Equitable Cities
To increase the academic and societal impact of the Community of practice: Housing and Equitable Cities by supporting key ongoing research and engagem....
Spatial Economic Activity Data: South Africa
Adding momentum to a high-profile and high-impact initiative: CoP and Web Upgrade. ....
UK-SA Bilateral Urban Programme
Developing a Public Sector Capability for Spatialised Economic Activity Data Building an evidence base for economic decision making in local governmen....
Mining, distribution and analysis of spatialised tax data
There are serious deficiencies in the extent and quality of economic data at the provincial, municipal, district and local levels in South Africa. Thi....
Tradable services
The first component is a brief review of the growth of tradable services sectors in South Africa. The second will be a preliminary review of firm-leve....
The 2021 Social unrest in South Africa: Future scenarios
In response to the social unrest and following a presentation by the HSRC to the National Intelligence Co-ordinating Committee (NICOC) the Department ....
The creation of a spatial economic panel
A three-year partnership with the City Support Programme of the National Treasury will mine SARS tax records to create a spatial economic panel. This ....
NIDS CRAM Wave 5
Write Policy Paper....
UNU-WIDER Economic Analysis of Administrative Datasets
To produce research paper of sufficient quality to merit publication in the WIDER working paper series and a non-technical brief that brings together ....
Strengthenin Urban Economies: Improving Local Conditions for Diverse Enterprises Development and Growth_SA Cities Network
1. Understand how to grow economies 2. Expand economic participation/ inclusion 3. Improve Local economic governance 4. Deepen Economic Intellegence ....
Flagship - city-region economies (CEO Funded)
This proposal seeks to improve the capabilities of government to strengthen the economy of South Africa???s city-regions by undertaking relevant resea....
UNU-WIDER: South Africa - Toward Inclusive Economic Development
United Nations University World Insitution for Devolopment Economics Research UNU WIDER) is implementing with partners over the period of 2017-20 a re....
LIRA 2030 AFRICA: Advancing the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goal 11 in Africa
The core project goal is to evaluate methods for upgrading the physical form of dense informal settlements in ways which enhance their social and econ....
Government Technical Advisory Centre (GTAC): Backyard Rental Market Development
The overall objective of the project is to advise and support metropolitan municipalities in South Africa on strategies to encourage and regulate back....
Gauteng City-Region Observatory (GCRO): A Survey of Tradeable Services in The Gauteng Province
The project purpose is to conduct the first phase of a survey of knowledge intensive tradeable services in the Gauteng province; The scope of the proj....
University of California Santa Cruz: Inclusive Economies: workshop and Int travel
Organise and coordinate a workshop in South Africa: Inclusive Economies Project ; Date of workshop: 28 August 2017; Venue: SA Cities Network, JIKE B....
European Union: World Cities
The Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) supports the EU Consulta in the implementation of the World Cities project for activities related with the ....
Institute of Development Studies
The Everett Program at the University of California Santa Cruz (leading), the Program for Environmental and Regional Equity at the University of South....