Events
BizNews Noontime Thursday webinar: Is the MTBPS fit for the Economic Recovery Plan?
Don’t miss veteran broadcaster Tim Modise as he unpacks the big news items of the week. Watch the webinar here...
Budget Justice Coalition – Imali Yesizwe (Our Nation’s Money): An Alternative Human Rights Budget
The BJC acknowledges that the budget and budget processes are critical to the advancement and protection of human rights. Civil society has noted with increasing concern the continued steps by National Treasury and the South African...
From Global Pandemic to Prosperity for all: Avoiding Another Lost Decade
In the second webinar in a series of conversations by the IEJ and Maverick Citizen, we debate the UNCTAD 2020 Trade and Development Report (TDR) from a South African perspective. Read the UNCTAD presentation here Read the report here...
Defining a New Economics: What Role for Human Rights
The Institute for Economic Justice (IEJ), Center for Economic and Social Rights (CESR) and SECTION27 have partnered in organising this webinar – Defining a new economics: What role for human rights? As the response to the...
Pathways to Reform South Africa webinar – Restoring economy, employment, accountability and public Trust
This Mail & Guardian webinar was sponsored by the Democracy Development Program (DDP). Speakers included Aubrey Mashiqi, independent political analyst; Busi Sibeko, economist and researcher at the Institute for Economic Justice...
REFA Festival 2020
Rethinking Economics for Africa (REFA) organises an annual event called the REFA Festival. This year, the REFA Festival’s theme was “practical action towards a pluralist economics curriculum”. The Festival has also come at a...
No return to normal: Advancing a feminist economy post-COVID-19
The economic damage caused by the pandemic is set to have far-reaching effects over the next few years, an added burden to an already crippled economy. The precarity of women’s livelihoods, particularly Black women, is one of the...
The economy after COVID-19: Questions that need Answers.
The debate is raging here and internationally around the Covid-19 economic moment – how to confront deep fault lines in societies and reset our economy. To help think through these issues, and to ensure that economics delivers social...
Public Webinar: Economic Policies to tackle the negative impact of COVID-19 in South Africa
It is widely predicted that the COVID-19 pandemic will trigger a global recession, due to collapsing demand and the supply shocks this crisis will entail. It is estimated that South Africa’s GDP could contract by between 1.8 and 7%,...
Feminist Economics Summer School
The study of feminist economics remains marginal within mainstream economic teaching, discourse, and policymaking in South Africa. There are currently no degrees dedicated to feminist economics in South African universities, with a...
Economic Literacy Workshop (Civil Society)
The third in a series of “crash course” style workshops that bring together civil society organisations working in different fields with the aim of demystifying economics and economic policy....
Economic Literacy Workshop (Labour)
The second in a series of “crash course” style workshops that bring together labour organisations with the aim of demystifying economics and economic policy. This workshop focused specifically on the economics behind labour-related...
Finance and Human Rights Workshop Series: Finance, the Environment and Development
This is the fifth dialogue in our Finance and Human Rights series. This dialogue explores private finance’s increasing role in “development” and how this may either advance or retard the realisation of rights. The discussion looks at...
Rethinking Economics for Africa Festival 2019: Students and Academics Convenings
As an extension of the REFA festival, these convenings will interrogate more critically the usefulness of the economics curriculum, the challenges faced in the field by students and academics and opened discussions on how these can be...
Rethinking Economics for Africa (REFA) Festival 2019
The festival hosts student activists and artists, prominent academics and civil society organisations working to transform the economics discipline and the economy. The festival is an annual event where participants exchange ideas over...
Challenging Orthodoxies in Economic Thinking in Africa
A convening held in Senegal bringing together African academics and activists to interrogate the nature of existing orthodoxies, both in economic policymaking and economic knowledge production, in general, and in Africa in particular....
Finance and Human Rights Workshop Series: Banking, Accountability and Corruption
This is the fourth dialogue in our Finance and Human Rights series. Through case studies we explore the responsibilities of financial institutions and how they can be held accountable for misconduct and human rights violations....
Finance and Human Rights Workshop Series: Household Financial Integration and the Right to Housing
The third dialogue in our Finance and Human Rights series explores the differentiated (and unequal) integration of households into the financial sector and how this enhances or retards access to housing....
Finance and Human Rights Workshop Series: Prioritizing Shareholders Over Stakeholders
The second dialogue of our Finance and Human Rights series highlights how the increased drive towards shareholder value maximisation lowers investment in the economy, reduces work opportunities and increases income and wealth inequality....
Economic Literacy Workshop with Public Service International
The first in a series of workshops that bring together civil society organisations working in different fields with the aim of demystifying economics and economic policy....
Finance and Human Rights Workshop Series: Approaching the financial sector and human rights
The first of our Finance and Human Rights dialogues which explore the manner in which a human rights framework can help to evaluate the nature and functioning of the financial system...
The Economic Manifesto Analysis: What Economy Are You Voting For?
As a build-up to the 2019 national elections, the three major political parties and independent economists unpack the economic policy proposals in each manifesto....
Land: An Economic Perspective
A debate on the economic perspective of land expropriation without compensation. View Details...
Rethinking Economics for Africa (REFA) Festival 2018
The inaugural REFA Festival hosted 450 people – academics, students, researchers, policymakers, public servants, activists, unionists and members of the public – to begin a new conversation about the present and future of...