VIEWPOINTS | LABOUR MARKET REFORM IS NEEDED FOR INCLUSIVE GROWTH | CDE
04 Oct 2018The latest report in CDE’s VIEWPOINTS series, Labour market reform is needed for inclusive growth, argues that South Africa needs a change in de...
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For more than 20 years, the Centre for Development and Enterprise has been gathering evidence, consulting widely and generating constructive policy recommendations to meet South Africa’s core socio-economic challenges. It has an exceptional track record in presenting sound ideas based on scholarly and stakeholder contributions, focused on South Africa, but always within an international context. CDE advocates a high-growth and labour intensive economic strategy reliant on market-based solutions.
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The Jobs and Growth Programme engages with the policy choices South Africa faces by analysing existing policy and outcomes, assessing future policy directions, and offering practical, market-oriented alternatives.
THINK TANK NETWORK
In 2009 CDE launched an initiative to build links with think tanks in important democratic developing countries. Considerable work has been done with Indian and Brazilian experts looking at common challenges with SA.
EDUCATION
Our Education Programme draws on many years of experience in analysing complex national policies and learning from international best practice to identify a sound foundation on which to build a better education system.
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VIEWPOINTS | State, Market and Competition – Can Eskom be rescued? | CDE
03 Sep 2018State, Market and Competition – Can Eskom be rescued? by economist Lumkile Mondi is the third in CDE’s VIEWPOINTS series. The report describes...
The future of manufacturing employment
07 Aug 2018Are the robots going to steal our jobs? In March 2018, CDE invited Robert Lawrence to speak to audiences of policy-makers and business leaders about.....
Viewpoints | Why land expropriation without compensation is a bad idea | CDE
20 Jul 2018VIEWPOINTS is a new series published by CDE in which we will be drawing on the expertise of South Africans from a range of organisations......
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op-ed: The jobs summit was helpful, but simply fine-tuning what we already do won’t work | Business Day
18 Oct 2018SA’s growth path must become more labour-intensive — and wages matter for employment acceleration. In the run-up to the presidential jobs summit, ...
Op-ed: Expanding scope of low-wage jobs does not mean a race to the bottom | Business day
17 Oct 2018Government’s job-creation project has pay flexibility, so it makes no sense to exclude private sector’s efforts, write Nicoli Nattrass and...
Will the Jobs Summit yield results?
08 Oct 2018Speaking on ENCA ahead of the Jobs Summit, CDE’s Ann Bernstein questions whether the voices of the unemployed will be taken into account?...
Addressing the scale of the unemployment challenge
08 Oct 2018The jobs summit needs to take extraordinary measures in order to deal with the scale of unemployment, says CDE’s Ann Bernstein to the The Money......
The unemployment crisis
08 Oct 2018Ann Bernstein, executive director of the CDE tells Power FM that everyday 860 people join the unemployment queue....