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SAMNet

Project Type: South Africa’s Cities and Growth Spatial Challenges and Policy Interventions

Request for Proposals: The role of cities as drivers of growth and employment

Background Urbanization in South Africa is expected to reach 80% by...

Call for Work

South Africa’s future will be decided in our cities

Discussion Document 14 South Africa’s cities face multiple, overlap...

Dieter von Fintel, Justin Visagie, Ivan Turok, Takwanisa Machemedze, Claus Rabe, Sebastian Galiani, Edward Glaeser

Discussion Document

Monitoring South Africa’s metropolitan economies: A survey of the data landscape

Discussion Document 13 Disparities in data across different metropo...

Dieter von Fintel

Discussion Document

Cities, productivity and Jobs in SA: Problems and potential

Discussion Document 12 Cities contribute to national prosperity bec...

Ivan Turok, Justin Visagie

Discussion Document

Place-based economic policies: international lessons for South Africa

Discussion Document 11 Place-based policies are designed to support...

Harris Selod, Claus Rabe

Discussion Document

What luminosity data can and cannot reveal about South Africa’s urban economies

Discussion Document 10 As novel types of data are becoming availabl...

Takwanisa Machemedze

Discussion Document

Crime: A policy-oriented survey

Discussion Document 9 South Africa has a reputation for having high...

Sebastian Galiani

Discussion Document

Virtual CDE Workshop on SA Cities and Growth

Urban economics has provided powerful insights into how the charact...

Workshop

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