Michael Aliber

Position: Professor

Institution: Department of Agricultural Economics and Extension, University of Fort Hare

Michael is in the Department of Agricultural Economics and Extension, and also serves as Director of Fort Hare's Agricultural and Rural Development Research Institute (ARDRI)

Articles

The former Transkei and Ciskei homelands are still poor, but is there an emerging dynamism?

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Editor's Corner

From the REDI3x3 project:

The South African informal sector: Creating jobs, reducing poverty

With a foreword by Ravi Kanbur.

Published by HSRC Press.
ISBN 978-0-7969-2534-3
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‘A prerequisite for good policy-making for this part of the economy is good analysis. … This volume embodies analytical excellence. I look forward to its impact on policy-making in South Africa and the world.’

Ravi Kanbur (Cornell University)

Econ3x3 readership statistics end of February 2021: 2.3 million reads since launch in December 2012 by founding editor Frederick Fourie. Average of 20 000 reads per article. In previous six months: about 125 000 reads across all 114 articves. About 40% of site visits are from outside South Africa; significant numbers from the USA, UK, India and Nigeria.

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Working Papers from the REDI3x3 project are available HERE

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Articles

From the REDI3x3 project:

The South African informal sector: Creating jobs, reducing poverty

Download from HSRC Open Access:

Working Papers from the REDI3x3 project are available HERE

READ, WRITE & REASON

Creating jobs, reducing poverty I: Why the informal sector should be taken seriously and enabled properly

Who are the middle class in South Africa? Does it matter for policy?

What is the role of manufacturing in boosting economic growth and employment in South Africa?

Adcorp’s employment and unemployment figures are not taken seriously by researchers – yet they can do much harm

Informal settlements: poverty traps or ladders to work?

Why are foreign-run spaza shops more successful? The rapidly changing spaza sector in South Africa

How high is graduate unemployment in South Africa? A much-needed update

How much is inequality reduced by progressive taxation and government spending?

A job in the informal sector reduces poverty about as much as a job in the formal sector

Who creates jobs, who destroys jobs? Small firms, large firms and labour market rigidity