Posted on March 11, 2024
"When evaluating the Budget Speech within the context of South Africa's socio-economic landscape, it is important to recognise the limits of Treasury's mandate and what they can ultimately do to solve our many and multifaceted problems," writes Professor Heinrich Bohlmann and Dr Jessika Bohlmann,...
Posted on March 07, 2024
Prof Nara Monkam, an Associate Professor of Public Economics in the Department of Economics and Head of the Public Policy Hub at the University of Pretoria (UP) has been appointed as the Chair in Municipal Finance at the African Tax Institute, within the Faculty of Economic and Management...
Posted on March 06, 2024
Prof Annet Oguttu has been appointed as the new director of the African Tax Institute. at the University of Pretoria. She is a professor of taxation in the Department of Taxation.
Posted on January 18, 2024
Professor Marius van Oordt of the African Tax Institute writes that there are conflicting views between health and economic experts on how taxes should be set for nicotine products. He states that setting risk-based tax rates can balance these contrasting views.
Posted on November 28, 2023
UP’s Dr Phanankosi Moyo and Dr Carolyn Chisadza have been awarded a fellowship by the University of Oxford which gives exceptional African researchers the chance to work on a project of their choice.
Posted on November 23, 2023
Professors Mike Wingfield and Rangan Gupta are among a group of only 10 South African academics on on Clarivate’s Highly Cited Researchers list for 2023.
Posted on November 17, 2023
Dr Carolyn Chisadza, a senior lecturer in the Department of Economics at the University of Pretoria is a recipient of the University of Oxford's AfOx Visiting Fellowship.
Posted on November 10, 2023
Fiscal policy specialist and head of the Public Policy Hub at the University of Pretoria (UP), Professor Nara Monkam, received Georgia State University’s Sheth International Alumni Award for Exceptional Achievement during an honorary reception held for International Education Week on 7...
Posted on October 20, 2023
Professor Steven Koch of the Department of Economics has been elected as a fellow of the Econometric Society, an international society for the advancement of economic theory in its relation to statistics and mathematics. The Society was founded in 1930 and since its inception, 1 188 fellows have...
Posted on October 19, 2023
Prof Heinrich Bohlmann, Associate Professor in the Department of Economics, recently delivered his Presidential Address at the 2023 Economic Society of South Africa conference.
Posted on October 05, 2023
Aditi Bansal, a global energy justice advocate who was the guest speaker at an event hosted by UP’s Energy Economics Unit, along with the US Embassy in SA, emphasised the importance of adopting a human-centric approach to climate and energy justice.
Posted on October 04, 2023
The Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences (EMS) recently hosted its annual EMS Awards to celebrate the excellence of outstanding academic staff. The awards, which were held at the EMS Research Hub on the Hatfield Campus, honoured the academic excellence of staff in three categories, namely...
Posted on September 10, 2023
The University of Pretoria’s (UP’s) Energy Economics Unit in the Department of Economics hosted an energy economics and econometrics workshop at the beginning of August 2023. The event was organised by the Makerere University Business School (MUBS) and funded by the Norwegian...
Posted on August 17, 2023
Several areas of commonality came to light during a public lecture and panel debate held at the University of Pretoria’s Future Africa Campus, UP's pan-African platform for collaborative research, on Friday, 4 August.
Posted on August 17, 2023
Dr Eleni Yitbarek, a senior lecturer in the Department of Economics in the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences, has been awarded the 2023 Partnership for Economic Policy (PEP) Research Fellowship. The research and work undertaken by PEP through its programmes and thematic areas seeks to...
Posted on July 21, 2023
Close to 30 submissions were received this year. Of these, the workshop accepted eight papers by PhD students and postdocs from universities across the country, spanning a range of topics in health economics, macroeconomics, finance, and labour economics.
Posted on June 26, 2023
Nyemwererai Matshaka, a PhD student in the Department of Economics in the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences at the University of Pretoria, won the Econometric Society, Africa Region's Young Economist Best Paper Award at the Africa Meeting of the Econometric Society. The conference,...
Posted on June 14, 2023
Researchers in the University of Pretoria's Energy Economics Unit write that for South Africa to transition to renewable energy, a technological transition that is equitable must be factored in.
Posted on May 18, 2023
Dr Sansia Blackmore of the African Tax Institute writes that elected government representatives need to be accountable to taxpayers. “They owe us much by way of transparency — explaining themselves and spending our hard-earned taxes carefully, in the interest of the people,” she...
Posted on April 24, 2023
Three PhD candidates in the University of Pretoria's Department of Economics recently participated in the 44th Annual International Association for Energy Economics (IAEE) conference, which took place from 4 to 9 February 2023 in Saudi Arabia.
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