Events
- Date Thursday, 21 January 2016
- Venue Tram Village, 317 Tram Street in Pretoria
- Main Speakers Thomas Farole ; Faizel Ismail ; Ben Turok
PRESENTATION FOLLOWED BY A PANEL DISCUSSION Session 1: 9:30 – 11:15 Thomas Farole – World Bank Faizel Ismail – UCT and the dti Ben Turok – Institute for African Alternatives Tea Session 2: 11:30 – 12:30: Panel Discussion Background: The concept of Global Value Chains (GVC) takes forward the idea that the activities that…
- Date Wednesday, 18 November 2015
- Venue TIPS Boardroom, 227 Lange St, Nieuw Muckleneuk, Pretoria
- Main Speakers Baba-Tamana Gqubule ; Neva Makgetla
TOPIC: PRESENTATION OF THE LATEST QUARTERLY MANUFACTURING BULLETIN The quarterly manufacturing bulletin is an initiative of the Manufacturing Circle. It provides an analysis of trends in the South African manufacturing sector. This development dialogue will present the third quarter manufacturing bulletin with the aim of informing policy and facilitating…
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- the_end_of_the_commodity_boom_and_the_sa_economy_november_2015.pdf (2079 Downloads)
- manufacturing_circle_survey_third_quarter_2015.pdf (1668 Downloads)
- Date Wednesday, 14 October 2015
- Venue TIPS Boardroom, 227 Lange St, Nieuw Muckleneuk, Pretoria
- Main Speakers UMA ADUSUMILLA
SPEAKER: UMA ADUSUMILLA Uma Adusumilli has been heading the Regional Planning department in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA), an institution that has wide scope for Regional Planning & Development, Financing, Institution Building and Co-ordination for the last eleven years. Prior to that, she worked for 15 years as…
- Date Wednesday, 02 September 2015
Public seminars held during APORDE 2015 1. AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT AND THE POLITICAL ECONOMY CHALLENGES OF INDUSTRIAL POLICY Speakers: Christopher Cramer and Mushtaq Khan Date: Wednesday 2 September 2015 Time: From 18:30 Venue: CCRED Seminar Room, 2nd Floor, 5 Sturdee Avenue, Rosebank Organised by the Centre for Competition, Regulation and Economic Development (CCRED) For…
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- development_dialogue_seminar_series_with_aporde_2015_september.pdf (1662 Downloads)
- Date Friday, 21 August 2015
- Venue TIPS Boardroom, 227 Lange St, Nieuw Muckleneuk, Pretoria
Insights into the manufacturing sector: Outcomes of the latest quarterly Manufacturing Bulletin The quarterly manufacturing bulletin is an initiative of the manufacturing circle. It serves to provide an analysis of trends in the South African manufacturing sector. The focus of this development dialogue will be to present the second quarter,…
- Date Tuesday, 11 August 2015
- Venue VENUE: The Sheraton Hotel, 643 Cnr Stanza Bopape/Wessels Streets, Arcadia, Pretoria
- Organisation Organised by UCT Graduate School of Development Policy & Practice, DPRU and co-hosted with UNU-WIDER and TIPS
You are invited to the Pretoria launch seminar of The Oxford Companion to the Economics of South Africa Edited by: Haroon Bhorat, Alan Hirsch, Ravi Kanbur and Mthuli Ncube 52 entries by leading economists from within and working on South Africa bringing together perspectives on a range…
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- oup_book_launch_invite_pretoria_11_august_2015.pdf (4990 Downloads)
- Date Thursday, 09 July 2015
- Venue TIPS Boardroom, 227 Lange St, Nieuw Muckleneuk, Pretoria
- Main Speakers GAYLOR MONTMASSON-CLAIR, Assistant Programme Manager, Sustainable Growth, TIPS. DR NEVA MAKGETLA, Programme Manager, Trade and Industrial Policy, TIPS
Repositioning electricity planning at the core: An evaluation of South Africa's Integrated Resource Plan Gaylor Montmasson-Clair Background: Energy and electricity issues in particular have recently been high on the South African agenda. Beyond immediate near-term considerations, reviewing the current electricity planning process is both a timely and necessary exercise. This review, based…
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- Date Monday, 09 November 2015
Introduction to Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) Modelling with GAMS 9-13 November 2015 Trade & Industrial Policy Strategies (TIPS) is pleased to announce a workshop Introduction to Computable General Equilibrium Modelling with GAMS, to be held in Pretoria from 9-13 November 2015. For details of the workshop, see the…
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- application_cge_gams_workshop_nov_913_2015.docx (3202 Downloads)
- Date Monday, 02 November 2015
Introduction to Economy-wide Modelling for Policy Analysis 2 - 6 November 2015 Trade & Industrial Policy Strategies (TIPS) is pleased to announce a workshop on Introduction to Economy-Wide Modelling for Policy Analysis, to be held in Pretoria from 2 – 6 November 2015. For details of the workshop,…
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- Date Tuesday, 17 February 2015
- Venue TIPS Boardroom, 227 Lange St, Nieuw Muckleneuk, Pretoria
- Main Speakers Baba-Tamana Gqubule, Economist: Trade and Industry, TIPS.
The quarterly manufacturing bulletin is an initiative of the Manufacturing Circle. It serves to provide an analysis of trends in the South African manufacturing sector. The focus of this development dialogue will be to present the third quarter manufacturing bulletin with the aim to inform policy and facilitate discussion around…
- Date Tuesday, 17 February 2015
- Venue TIPS Boardroom, 227 Lange St, Nieuw Muckleneuk, Pretoria
- Main Speakers Sithembiso Mtanga, Assistant Programme Manager: Trade and Industry, TIPS
This presentation will explore the role of Bilateral Investment Treaties (BITs) in Investment Promotion for South Africa and rest of the world. Recent global trends have indicated a decline in the ratification of new BITs with a number of countries (including South Africa) reviewing and cancelling treaties that have been…
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- investment_promotion_and_the_role_of_bits.pdf (1635 Downloads)
- Date Monday, 16 February 2015
- Venue TIPS Boardroom, 227 Lange St, Nieuw Muckleneuk, Pretoria
- Main Speakers Jamie Simpson
ABOUT THE SPEAKER Jamie Simpson is an economic and management consultant with 25 years experience related to port planning, infrastructure investment and city-region economic development. He has extensive experience as a Project Director/Manager leading major projects and working with governments and senior executives on strategic planning, investment plans and economic…
Trade & Industrial Policy Strategies (TIPS) in partnership with the University of the Witwatersrand, United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER) and the USAID Southern Africa Trade Hub Program, and in association with the Department of Trade and Industry, National Treasury and the Department of Performance Monitoring…
- Date Monday, 13 April 2015
TIPS is pleased to announce a workshop on Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) Modelling Pretoria from 13 – 17 April 2015 CGE modelling is one of a number of approaches to economy-wide analysis that have become accessible and practicable as data and computer based techniques have developed. An increasing number of…
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- ewpia-cge_workshop_april_2015_application_form.docx (3203 Downloads)
- Date Wednesday, 04 March 2015
TIPS is pleased to announce a workshop on Green Economy: Principles and Practices Pretoria 4 – 5 March 2015 Have you ever wondered: What is a green economy? Why is a green economy necessary? What are the intellectual origins of the concept of green economy? How is green economy related…
- Date Tuesday, 02 September 2014
During the upcoming APORDE 2014 a series of public evening seminars will be held: 1. Taking Inequality Analysis beyond the Gini Co-efficient Speaker: Gabriel Palma Date: Tuesday 2 September 2014 Time: From 19h00 (refreshments from 18:30) Venue: IDC conference centre, Co-host: IDC RSVP: lorrainep@idc.co.za 2. African Development…
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- Date Thursday, 02 October 2014
- Venue TIPS Boardroom, 227 Lange St, Nieuw Muckleneuk, Pretoria
- Main Speakers Saliem Fakir, Head of Living Planet Unit, World Wildlife Fund South Africa
The presentation will explore the viability of shale gas in South Africa from an economic lens. By focusing on issues such as geology, decline rates and breakeven costs of wells and exploring the relationship between gas prices and cash-flows, the presentation will seek to answer the core question of whether…
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- tips_shale_gas_development_dialogue_2_october_2014.pdf (1582 Downloads)
- Date Thursday, 04 September 2014
- Venue SEBS seminar suite, 1st Floor ???????? New Commerce Building, West Campus, Wits University, Johannesburg
Alice Amsden Memorial Lecture Speaker – Professor Stephanie Seguino How Economies Grow: Alice Amsden and the Real World Economics of Late Industrialisation 4 September 2014 - 18:30 for 19:00 (light dinner served) ABOUT THE SPEAKER Stephanie Seguino is Professor of Economics at the University of Vermont, USA; Professorial Research Associate…
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- presentation_stephanie_seguino_amsden_memorial_lecture.pdf (1429 Downloads)
- Date Tuesday, 22 July 2014
- Main Speakers Dinga Fatman, Economist at TIPS
TIPS recently completed a study investigating the impact of the controversial Eskom electricity supply agreement with Aluminium mining conglomerate BHP Billiton using a cost-benefit analysis (CBA) methodology to assess the costs and benefits to society of cancelling the special pricing agreement (SPA) that Eskom has with BHP Billiton. The CBA considered…
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- Date Friday, 04 July 2014
- Organisation TIPS
TIPS recently completed a study investigating how South Africa can improve the strategic use of its technical infrastructure (which include SABS, NMISA, SANAS, and NRCS) in a way that maximises enforcement by creating linkages with other measures such as import controls, consumer protection and customs and administrative procedures in order to…
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- development_dialogue_seminar_-technical_regulations.pdf (1430 Downloads)