REDI

Research Project on Employment, Income Distribution and Inclusive Growth, supporting evidence-based policy making.

[TrafficSA @TrafficSA]

Cape Town - #ALERT MIST

[EWN Reporter @ewnreporter]

BREAKING:

Pastor Paseka Mboro Motsoeneng’s church has been set alight in Katlehong. @motso_modise

[REDI @REDI3x3]

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[REDI @REDI3x3]

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[Children's Institute, University of Cape Town @CIatUCT]

In Africa 14.5% of children under the age of 16 are suffering from the effects of violence – both collective and interpersonal violence – resulting in long-term trauma. #violenceagainstchildren @UCTSaVI @SonkeTogether @issafrica @UPChildLaw @CoEHuman @UNICEF_SA @DGMurrayTrust

[Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) @StatsSA]

National poverty lines are updated annually using #CPI to reflect the cost of living & to maintain integrity and relevance over time. The 2019 upper bound #poverty line is R1 227 per person per month. Read more here: https://t.co/vwpQb0CWyo
#StatsSA

[REDI @REDI3x3]

New #NIDS Wave 5 analysis just released. @IngridWoolard

[Pippa Green @green_pippa]

#NIDS is the biggest ever independent and national panel study in SA, allowing valuable insights into movements in and out of poverty, employment etc. @roccozizzamia @VimalRanchhod have found considerable instability and churn in the labour market.

[ARUA ACEIR @ARUA_ACEIR]

@MurrayLeibbrand now in panel discussion on how the emergence of middle classes impacts #inequality & #socialcohesion - with @CleaChakraverty @FR_Conversation @Shanta_WB @SALDRU1 @VimalRanchhod @roccozizzamia @haj_esau @AFD_en @REDI3x3 #WorldInCommon #ConfInequalities

[Pippa Green @green_pippa]

Good discussion with Dr Thami Mazwai. Here’s ⁦@REDI3x3⁩ latest book on #informalsector , which now employs abt 2m: The South African Informal Sector: Creating jobs, reducing poverty (Ed: ⁦@FrederickFourie⁩) @SAfmRadio⁩ ⁦@GwalaBnews⁩ https://t.co/VGBvxPxako

[REDI @REDI3x3]

#JobsSummit: the evidence tells us we need to urgently bridge the gap between school and work, help young people stay in school longer, and support labour-intensive rather than capital-intensive industries. And government could help those trying to make their own living too.

[Pippa Green @green_pippa]

South Africa's unemployment rate is about the highest in the world: as the #JobsSummit ends it first day, here is what some of the evidence tells us about how to create more opportunities, especially for young people who suffer most. https://t.co/IdHuk9Qmbp @SALDRU1 @REDI3x3

[UniteBehind @UniteBehind]

Thobile lives in Khayelitsha and works in Wellington. He has to get a bus at 4:20am to Bellville train station. From there he takes the train to Wellington, a trip that is supposed to take an hour from Bellville is often longer than two because of delays https://t.co/Jm1mTtgR3L

[REDI @REDI3x3]

Here is the link: https://t.co/maV1Kxywf2

[Econ3x3 @econ3x3]

Why has manufacturing employment declined so much? How do we expect to achieve labour-intensive growth if huge subsidies promote capital-intensive production? @econ3x3 @Green_Pippa @redi3x3

[REDI @REDI3x3]

Manufacturing in SA has performed poorly since the '90s and employment has declined. Industrial policies have favoured capital-intensive heavy industry. With high structural unemployment, shouldn't policies support labour-intensive growth? https://t.co/maV1Kxywf2 @econ3x3

[REDI @REDI3x3]

The #JobsSummit this week will put one of SA's biggest challenges -- unemployment -- centre stage. Here's how a relatively small @TreasuryRSA project, the #JobsFund, has tried to overcome some of the barriers to job creation https://t.co/Id7MyqBt8K @SALDRU1

[REDI @REDI3x3]

Universities have responsibility to put policy debates on #inequality, #poverty into broader public space : Judy Favish @MandelaInit #ScholarshipofEngagement #GrapplingPovertyInequality @SALDRU1 @PII_UCT @NelsonMandela

[REDI @REDI3x3]

@MandelaInit #GrapplingPovertyInequality: priorities must be arresting intergenerational poverty, addressing structural inequality, tackling high end inequality: Judy Favish @SALDRU1 @PII_UCT @NelsonMandela

[REDI @REDI3x3]

@MandelaInit finds that certain policies have perpetrated #inequality such as #RDP housing, language policy in schools: Judy Favish @SALDRU1 @PII_UCT @NelsonMandela

[REDI @REDI3x3]

@MandelaInit quotes @REDI3x3 research showing difference between income #inequality and wealth #inequality. Middle class in SA may be growing in income terms but not in terms of wealth: Judy Favish @SALDRU1 @PII_UCT @NelsonMandela

[REDI @REDI3x3]

Small projects such as farm school in Colesberg or olive oil co-op in Goedgedacht show us how #poverty, #inequality can be challenged: Francis Wilson @MandelaInit @SALDRU1 @PII_UCT @NelsonMandela

[REDI @REDI3x3]

@MandelaInit research was focused on how to fix social problems like #poverty, #inequality: Francis Wilson @SALDRU1 @PII_UCT @NelsonMandela