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Aug 28, 2024 | 
theconversation.com | Moina Spooner |Christie Swanepoel |Derek Yu |Hannah Dawson |Imraan Valodia |Judy N. Muthuri | +6 more
By 2050, one in every three young people on earth will be of African origin, according to the 2024 International Labour Organisation’s (ILO) Global Employment Trends for Youth report. Africa’s young people will be key players in the direction of future global consumption, culture and even stability. It’s estimated that by 2050, about 72.6 million new jobs for sub-Saharan Africa’s young people will be needed. The ILO report warns of an African “youthquake” unless the continent creates new jobs.
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Aug 13, 2024 | 
theconversation.com | Imraan Valodia
South Africa has exceptionally high levels of inequality. As someone who studies issues of inequality and sustainability, I have argued before that South Africa’s income inequality is the highest of all countries that have data on this. This means that the gap between the rich and the poor is wider than in any other country. While South Africa is somewhat exceptional, has been growing across the world.
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Jul 28, 2024 | 
news24.com | Imraan Valodia
Everyone agrees that solving the unemployment problem in South Africa is the number one priority. We've seen a lot of interventions that don't work. Imraan Valodia suggests how we might find some that do. For more financial news, go to the News24 Business front page. Everyone agrees that solving the unemployment problem in South Africa is the number one priority for economic policy for the new government, as it has been for all governments since 1994.
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Jul 25, 2024 | 
theafricanmirror.africa | Imraan Valodia
EVERYONE agrees that solving the unemployment problem in South Africa is the number one priority for economic policy for the new government, as it has been for all governments since 1994. What is less clear, and highly contested, is what should be done to solve this problem. It’s worth starting by acknowledging that the problem is complex and there are no easy solutions.
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Jul 17, 2024 | 
theconversation.com | Imraan Valodia
Everyone agrees that solving the unemployment problem in South Africa is the number one priority for economic policy for the new government, as it has been for all governments since 1994. What is less clear, and highly contested, is what should be done to solve this problem. It’s worth starting by acknowledging that the problem is complex and there are no easy solutions.
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Jul 6, 2024 | 
news24.com | Imraan Valodia
South Africa has over the past 30 years conformed to the pattern of high inequality, excessive corporate power and concentration of wealth in a small elite, writes Imraan Valodia VOICESOver the last decade or so, there has been something of a revolution in economics. The long-held belief that unfettered markets deliver good outcomes for all is now overwhelmingly discredited. South Africans need to be in the know if we want to create a prosperous future.
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Jul 3, 2024 | 
allafrica.com | Imraan Valodia
analysisPolicies to ensure that economic power is not concentrated, and that outcomes are good even for those who lack power in market relationships, can't be designed where there is a monopoly of political power. This has certainly been the case in South Africa, but there may be room for optimism following the ANC's loss of its majority in recent elections. Listen to this article 8 min Listen to this article 8 min Over the past decade or so there has been something of a revolution in economics.
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Jul 2, 2024 | 
dailymaverick.co.za | Imraan Valodia
THE CONVERSATION Policies to ensure that economic power is not concentrated, and that outcomes are good even for those who lack power in market relationships, can’t be designed where there is a monopoly of political power. This has certainly been the case in South Africa, but there may be room for optimism following the ANC’s loss of its majority in recent elections. Over the past decade or so there has been something of a revolution in economics.
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Jun 27, 2024 | 
theconversation.com | Imraan Valodia
Over the last decade or so there has been something of a revolution in economics. The long held belief that unfettered markets deliver good outcomes for all is now overwhelmingly discredited. Some of the most prominent economists in the world have been changing their minds about the efficacy of markets.
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Mar 10, 2024 | 
businesslive.co.za | Imraan Valodia
I heard of Eddie Webster’s passing shortly after 5pm on Tuesday March 5. Until that moment, though he was at almost 82 by far the oldest member of the staff at the Southern Centre for Inequality Studies (SCIS) at Wits University, it had not once crossed my mind that he would not be with us forever. He was that sort of person: always effervescent, always intellectually curious, always engaged in the university, always engaged in social change, never quiet.
