African Centre of Excellence for Inequality Research

🪘 An exciting webinar series on inequalities, poverty & deprivation starts tomorrow, 5 Feb!

Hosted by the Cluster of Research Excellence in Inequalities, Poverty & Deprivation - 1 of 21 clusters set up by the African Research Universities Alliance & @guildeu.bsky.social

✍️ bit.ly/4a7PTlS

👩‍🎓What does it take to reach the milestone of full professor in economics, especially as a female? We asked our colleague, Dr Nkechi S. Owoo, who recently was promoted to this academic rank, making her the 1st female to be capped in that capacity at the University of Ghana🎇

🔗https://bit.ly/4oWWzcl

🪘 This week sees the first hybrid seminar in our series on African inequalities, with @VimalRanchhod discussing inequalities in human capital & labour market outcomes.

📆 Wednesday, 13 Aug.
⏲️ 1-2 pm CAT
✍️🖥️ bit.ly/45HZVZT

Hosted jointly with @saldru.bsky.social at the University of Cape Town

Also @ #IPC2025: Analysis of how more access to primary & secondary education in Ghana played out in the labour market over time. Prelim. findings suggest increased education hasn't led to more wage employment, esp. for women. By Nicola Branson &
Emma Whitelaw @saldru.bsky.social

🔗 bit.ly/4kJqRgi

✍️ The authors of 'Disparities in access to paid leave and their implications for gender equality: The case of South Africa' are Jacqueline Mosomi, Muna Shifa, Amy Raub and Jody Heymann.

#gender #education #inequality #LeaveNoOneBehind

Access to paid leave is crucial for reducing health & economic inequalities, esp. for women & low-income workers. A new paper by ACEIR researchers & associates reveals big gaps in access to paid leave in South Africa.
Presented @ #IPC2025 @iussp.bsky.social

🔗 bit.ly/469AWzr
@saldru.bsky.social

👇 An exciting call for conference papers on frontier research in applied economics relevant to developing countries!

📊 For presentation to academics, policymakers & subject-matter experts in December

📍 Organised by Economic Research Southern Africa & University of Cape Town's @saldru.bsky.social

Image by Matazu Photography via Pexels

#WorldPopulationDay
By 2050, Africa will be the only region with a growing working-age population & will need to produce 2 million jobs/month by 2040 to keep up with the increase in working-age people: study by @davidalam.bsky.social & Murray Leibbrandt

🔗https://bit.ly/45ZF7Ob

@saldru.bsky.social

Sharing Prosperity: Policy Innovations to Tackle Economic Inequality This event will reflect on the impact economic inequality has on development and development policy, leading into the 11th ECINEQ Meeting.

The growing gap between the rich & poor in especially developing nations impacts development. Join us for a World Bank event where colleague Murray Leibbrandt from SALDRU will input on inequality trends & development policy priorities for sub-Saharan Africa

📅 8 July @ 5 - 6 pm CAT
✍️ bit.ly/44i4Jo7