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- Date Monday, 13 May 2013
- Venue 227 Lange St, Niew Muckleneuk, Pretoria
- Main Speakers Dirk Ernst van Seventer, Rob Davies
ANNOUNCEMENT Introduction to Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) Modelling with GAMS Workshop Trade and Industry Policy Strategies (TIPS) 13-18 May, 2013 Pretoria Most economics curricula deal with macroeconomic tools for studying the economy as a whole and microeconomic tools for studying the behaviour of individual agents or markets. However, practical…
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Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies (TIPS) is pleased to announce a short workshop on computable general equilibrium (CGE) modelling, to be held at the TIPS offices in Pretoria from 5-9 March 2012. It will be restricted to 16 participants. The IT revolution has allowed techniques that were once the preserve…
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- Date Thursday, 23 August 2012
- Venue TIPS Offices, 826 Government Avenue, Entrance at the Corner of Percy, Pretoria
- Main Speakers Dinga Fatman
Abstract Using data from two surveys evaluating South Africa's investment climate that were administered by the World Bank, I found evidence suggesting that there exists a relationship between perceptions of managers with regard to labour regulations and firm performance. Firms whose managers perceived labour regulations to be burdensome performed worse…
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- Date Tuesday, 24 July 2012
- Venue TIPS Offices, 826 Government Avenue, Entrance at the Corner of Percy, Pretoria
- Main Speakers Prof. Wilma Viviers; Dr. Ermie Steenkamp
- For enquiries or to register please contact RSVP by email: Ipeleng@tips.org.za to confirm attendance
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- Date Tuesday, 21 August 2012
- Venue Emperors Palace, Jones Road, Kempton Park, Gauteng
- Main Speakers Ms Dipuo Peters; Ms Phindile Nzimande; Sh. P.K. Bishnoi
- Organisation National Energy Regulator of South Africa (NERSA)
The National Energy Regulator of South Africa (NERSA) announces the first South African Economic Regulators Conference. On 21-22 August 2012 the National Energy Regulator of South Africa (NERSA) will host the Economic Regulators Conference to be held at Emperors Palace, Johannesburg, South Africa. The purpose of the conference is to…
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- Date Thursday, 05 July 2012
- Venue TIPS Offices, 826 Government Avenue, Entrance at the Corner of Percy, Pretoria
- Main Speakers Stephen Timm
Stephen Timm is a South African policy researcher and journalist who has written on small business and entrepreneurship for almost 10 years. Between 2003 and 2010 he wrote for Big news, a free sheet newspaper aimed at small business owners. He has since also written on small business for a…
- Date Thursday, 14 June 2012
- Venue TIPS Offices, 826 Government Avenue, Corner of Percy St, Pretoria
- Main Speakers Evans Chinembiri & Mbofholowo Tsedu
As Public Employment Programmes (PEPs) gain popularity as social safety nets the world over, there is very little that speaks to the problem of measuring their impact on local economic development (LED), yet this is a key part of the policy case for programmes such as the Community Work Programme…
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- Date Friday, 01 June 2012
- Venue TIPS Offices, 826 Government Avenue, Entrance at the Corner of Percy, Pretoria
- Main Speakers Ellen Hagerman, Glen Robbins
Ellen Hagerman has nearly 10 years of experience working on regional economic development issues including trade, infrastructure, food security and governance. She has worked for the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) for 13 years as a Program Manager and Senior Analyst and has covered a diversity of other issues including…
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- Date Monday, 28 May 2012
- Venue TIPS Offices, 826 Government Avenue, Entrance at the Corner of Percy, Pretoria
- Main Speakers Francis Fay
Francis Fay is Deputy Head of Unit in DG Agriculture and Rural Development of the European Commission, in the unit for Africa, Caribbean and the Pacific, G20/G8 and FAO. He has been closely associated with the development of agricultural product quality policy, including the protection in the EU of geographical…
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- Date Monday, 15 October 2012
- Venue TIPS Boardroom
- Main Speakers Dirk Ernst van Seventer, Rob Davies
- For enquiries or to register please contact Dirk Ernst van Seventer via Email: denves@xtra.co.nz / Rob Davies via Email: robdavieszim@gmail.com
Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies (TIPS) is pleased to announce a short workshop on computable general equilibrium (CGE) modelling, to be held in Pretoria from 15-19 October 2012. The IT revolution has allowed techniques that were once the preserve of a handful of leading theoreticians to become part of the…
- Date Wednesday, 24 October 2012
- Organisation University of Mauritius (UoM) and the WTO Chairs Programme (WCP)
Call for Papers The organizing committee invites abstract submission (Max 300 words) from researchers and practitioners in the field of international trade, finance and investment. All abstracts should be formatted to facilitate the review process. Author's names and details, including names of all co-authors plus affiliations and addresses for general…
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The deadline for submission of paper outlines is 25 April 2012. Successful authors will be notified by 30 April 2012 and will receive a £4,000 (Four thousand UK pounds sterling) commissioning fee, which will be paid upon submission of the finalised paper on 1 June 2012.
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- Date Friday, 30 March 2012
- Venue TIPS Offices, 826 Government Avenue, Entrance at the Corner of Percy, Pretoria
- Main Speakers Robert Kirk
Dr. Robert Kirk is Senior Vice President at AECOM International Development and was until recently the Chief of Party at the Southern African Trade Hub. Robert, who is an expert in the area of trade policy analysis, has extensive experience in regional trade policy. He was formerly a policy advisor…
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- Date Monday, 26 March 2012
- Venue TIPS Offices, 826 Government Avenue, Entrance at the Corner of Percy, Pretoria
- Main Speakers Wouter Schalken
Wouter Schalken is a Namibian based researcher specialized in a number of areas around strategic tourism planning, analysis and development. Wouter has worked for a number of development agencies (such as the UNDP, SIDA, USAID, the GTZ, the World Bank and UNESCO amongst others) at project-specific, national and regional levels.…
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- Date Tuesday, 13 March 2012
- Venue TIPS Offices, 826 Government Avenue, Corner of Percy, Pretoria
- Main Speakers Hamid Rashid
- Organisation United Nations Department of Economic Affairs
Hamid Rashid is Senior Adviser for Macroeconomic Policy in Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) of the United Nations. He leads a new UN initiative to provide alternative and credible policy advice to the Member States on fiscal, monetary and exchange rate related issues. The macroeconomic policy advice of…
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- Date Friday, 27 January 2012
- Venue TIPS Offices, 826 Government Avenue, Corner of Percy, Pretoria
- Main Speakers Mmatlou Kalaba
About the Presenter: Mmatlou Kalaba a research fellow at TIPS, specialising in trade research. He also carries out TIPS' capacity-building initiatives in the Southern African region, providing training courses on applied analytical and methodological tools. He currently holds a position in the Department of Agricultural Economics at the University of…
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- Date Thursday, 06 January 2011
- For enquiries or to register please contact http://pedl.cepr.org/
- Organisation CEPR, Department for International Development, UKAid
You can now apply for an Exploratory Research Grant under a new CEPR – DFID research initiative on private enterprise development in low-income countries. Over the next five years, Private Enterprise Development in Low-Income Countries (PEDL) will pursue a research agenda that aims to better understand what determines the strength…
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- Date Monday, 05 March 2012
- Main Speakers Dirk Ernst van Seventer and Rob Davies
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For enquiries or to register please contact
If you are interested in attending this workshop please send a short CV to: Dirk Ernst van Seventer Email: denves@xtra.co.nz or Rob Davies
Email: rdavies@hsrc.ac.za
Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies (TIPS) is pleased to announce a short workshop on computable general equilibrium (CGE) modelling, to be held at the TIPS offices in Pretoria from 5-9 March 2012. It will be restricted to 16 participants. The IT revolution has allowed techniques that were once the preserve…
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- Date Friday, 11 November 2011
- Venue TIPS Offices, 826 Government Avenue, Corner of Percy, Pretoria
- Main Speakers Peter Draper, Dianna Games
- Organisation SAIIA, TIPS
South Africa's economic dominance in Africa and in the southern African region is an accepted fact but its role in the continent has long been contested. South Africa's member ship of the G20 brought with it expectations from some quarters that it would represent Africa within that grouping. The recent…
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- Date Thursday, 01 March 2012
- Venue University of Twente in Enschede, The Netherlands
- For enquiries or to register please contact Should you have any further questions, please contact: m.f.clifford@utwente.nl
- Organisation Institute for Governance Studies (IGS), The African Studies Centre (ASC), The Microinsurance Network (MIN), The Center for Economic Analysis of Risk (CEAR) Munich Re Foundation German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin) The University of Mannheim
2012 Research Conference on Microinsurance You are invited to submit paper or panel proposals for the 2012 Research Conference on Microinsurance on 11,12,13 April 2012 at the University of Twente in Enschede, The Netherlands by: Institute for Governance Studies (IGS), The African Studies Centre (ASC), The Microinsurance Network (MIN), The…