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Gracelin Baskaran on how environmental policies may impact South African trade

One month after COP28, we record our first podcast of 2024. As the ...

Margaux Giannaros, Gracelin Baskaran

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Delivering a difficult MTBPS

Running up to the elections next year, this was a difficult MTBPS t...

Margaux Giannaros, Isaah Mhlanga

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Shedding light on AGOA

This week, after much anticipation, the AGOA Forum was hosted in Na...

Gracelin Baskaran, Margaux Giannaros

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What do we expect from the MTBPS?

Prior to last year’s Medium Term Budget Policy Statement (MTBPS) th...

Margaux Giannaros, Isaah Mhlanga

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A macroeconomic perspective of establishing a basic income grant

Adopting a broader perspective of the macroeconomics of basic incom...

Daan Steenkamp, Hylton Hollander

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How would providing UBI impact structural poverty?

This podcast adopts a refreshing view on what Universal Basic Incom...

Margaux Giannaros, Zimbali Mncube, Kelle Howson

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Prof Nicola Viegi deciphers the Nobel Prize winning research

In this podcast, ERSA’s host sits down with Prof. Nicola Viegi, the...

Margaux Giannaros, Nicola Viegi

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EconData and the world of single source automatable data

In this podcast we learn how EconData has solved a couple problems ...

Margaux Giannaros, Daan Steenkamp, Byron Botha

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Dr Channing Arndt on Building back fairer from the Covid-19 Pandemic in South Africa

Post-pandemic, South Africa’s economy finds itself in a constrained...

Margaux Giannaros, Channing Arndt

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Isaah Mhlanga on a positive MTBPS: getting to know Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana

After our new Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana delivered his first...

Isaah Mhlanga

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Dr Matthew Stern on understanding South Africa’s trade policy and performance

An issue often overlooked in many discussions is that of exports an...

Matthew Stern

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Prof Andreas Wörgötter on addressing current and persisting challenges in South Africa’...

At a time when tensions are rising due to growing inequality and un...

Andreas Wörgötter

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Prof Nicola Viegi on evaluating the near future of monetary policy in SA: Sailing into ...

Only three times in the last century has monetary policy been re-ev...

Nicola Viegi

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Timothy Köhler on SA’s labour market: is a national lockdown as severe as we think?

It is just over a year since South Africa had to succumb to what wa...

Timothy Köhler

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Dr Rossouw van Jaarsveld on developing a forex network model: how to highlight risk tra...

Have you ever wondered how sensitive the South African Rand is to s...

Rossouw van Jaarsveld

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Isaah Mhlanga on permanent spending habits: what to listen for while politicians campaign

It is not often that a country has an opportunity to allocate windf...

Isaah Mhlanga

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Dr Daan Steenkamp on forecasting GDP: why trucks matter in SA

In our second podcast with Dr Daan Steenkamp, a lead economist at t...

Daan Steenkamp

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Isaah Mhlanga on SA’s Budget Speech: adopting a business-friendly approach

After the challenges raised by Covid-19 and the increasing risks co...

Isaah Mhlanga

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Isaah Mhlanga on SA Budget 2021: Good news from SA’s 2020 Monetary and Fiscal Policy De...

Joining ERSA’s host in this podcast is Isaah Mhlanga, a Chief Econo...

Isaah Mhlanga

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Dr Biniam Bedasso on managing Public Finances: where does a quarter of the IMF’s Capaci...

In this podcast, ERSA’s host speaks to Dr Biniam Bedasso about Publ...

Biniam E. Bedasso

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Dr Filippo Taddei on Structural Reforms in Italy: what can South Africa learn?

After its sovereign debt crisis in 2011, Italy experienced its wors...

Filippo Taddei

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Dr Biniam Bedasso on immigration and political preferences in South Africa: how has vot...

During the past week the buzz word has been ‘voting’, given the nai...

Biniam E. Bedasso

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Dr Daan Steenkamp on nowcasting: how economists benefit from machine learning and big data

With the unprecedented level of uncertainty in the economy, the abi...

Daan Steenkamp

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Prof Scott Baker on measuring economic policy uncertainty: yes, measuring uncertainty

Levels of uncertainty have existed throughout time yet measuring un...

Scott Baker

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Dr Chris Loewald on Lockdown Learnings: monetary policy leeway during a pandemic

Shortly after the October MPR, ERSA’s host sat down with Dr Chris L...

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Prof. Nicola Viegi on SAMNet: a new economic modelling network is born

Adapting to the times, ERSA introduces its new initiative – the Sou...

Nicola Viegi

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Isaah Mhlanga on why South Africa’s unemployment rate went down this Covid-Quarter

In this podcast, ERSA’s host speaks to Isaah Mhlanga, a Chief Econo...

Isaah Mhlanga

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Prof. Estian Calitz on Fiscal Sustainability in South Africa: what are the shortcomings...

Shortly after the Minister of Finance gave his Supplementary Budget...

Estian Calitz

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Dr David Fowkes on QE and central bank balance sheet policies: Does South Africa have ‘...

Shortly after the Governor of the SARB gave his speech about the fu...

David Fowkes

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Prof Johannes W. Fedderke on the South African – US sovereign bond spread: how is this ...

In this podcast, Prof. Johannes W. Fedderke, the Director of ERSA s...

Johannes W. Fedderke

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Dr Neryvia Pillay Bell on the Fiscal response to the COVID-19 pandemic in South Africa:...

In this podcast Dr Neryvia Pillay Bell, a Policy Associate at ERSA ...

Neryvia Pillay Bell

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Manoel Bittencourt on COVID-19 Economic Facts in South Africa

In this insightful video, Prof. Manoel Bittencourt, from Wits Unive...

Manoel Bittencourt

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Alex van den Heever on South Africa’s public healthcare response to the COVID-19 pandem...

In this podcast Prof. Alex van den Heever, the Chair of Social Secu...

Alex van der Heever

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Chris Loewald on the Monetary Policy response to the Coronavirus pandemic in South Afri...

Amidst the Coronavirus Pandemic and an economic downgrade, we speak...

Christopher Loewald

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Nicola Viegi on the South African economic response to the Coronavirus: policies and pr...

Nicola Viegi, Deputy Director of ERSA, talks with Margaux G on the ...

Nicola Viegi

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Nicola Viegi on the potential impact of the Coronavirus on South Africa: policy co-ordi...

In this podcast, Prof. Nicola Viegi, the Deputy Director of ERSA an...

Nicola Viegi

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