The pandemic has heightened existing weaknesses in South Africa’s skills training regime.
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Increased capital investment and productivity need not result in job losses. Government can use industrial policy to link investment incentives to job preservation and even job creation.
South Africa’s economic reforms of the 1990s were overdone, destroying some industries and thus impacting economic growth and job creation. A re-balancing of industrial policy is called for.
Properly executed, government intervention can provide a real economic boost.
If the US were to stop dumping these valuable metals in landfills and to cease exporting them as cheap scrap, its imports could fall, and there would be less of these metals being made from scratch.
The need to connect African markets to aid development will once again be discussed at the World Economic Forum. The debate needs to move beyond the usual rhetoric.
The industry itself is a big polluter, but lots of environmentally important technologies depend on steel.
On Q&A, an unemployed merchant seafarer said Australian seafarers could replaced by foreign seafarers working on 457 visas, working for as little as $2 an hour. We check the facts.
Efforts to address Africa’s developmental challenges are hampered by features of the global governance architecture that undermine national policy and international cooperation.
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Professor of Industrial Strategy & Regional Development, Co-Director Centre for Governance, Regions and Industrial Strategy (CGRIS), University of Bath
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Professor of Business Economics, University of Birmingham
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Visiting Researcher, Southern Centre for Inequality Studies, University of the Witwatersrand
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Consulting Economist; and Senior Research Fellow University of Johannesburg, University of Johannesburg
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Professor of Economics & Director of the Africa Policy Program, PERI, UMass Amherst
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Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, The Ohio State University
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Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan
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Senior lecturer, University of the Witwatersrand
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Senior Project Consultant, Maastricht School of Management
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Distinguished Research Fellow, Human Sciences Research Council
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Professor of Technology Management, University of Pretoria
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Professor in Urban and Regional Economics, University of Cambridge
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Research Fellow at Melbourne Law School, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Economics, Makerere University
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Associate Professor, Director of the Centre for Employment and Labour Relations Law, The University of Melbourne