Lawrence Edwards
Curriculum Vitae
Current Positions
- Associate Professor, School of Economics, University of Cape Town (from
2007)
- Deputy Head of Department, External affairs, School of Economics,
University of Cape Town (2007&8)
- Editorial Board: South African Journal of Economics
- Editorial Board: South African Journal of Economics and Management
Studies.
- Council Member: Economic Society of South Africa; Cape Town branch
committee
- External Examiner: International trade, University of Western Cape.
- Reviewer : South African Journal of Economics, Agrekon, The African
Finance Journal, The Economic Journal, World Development, Journal of African
Economies, Economics of Transition, Journal for Studies in Economics and
Econometrics.
Education
- 1999 - 2003 PhD in Economics, University of Cape Town. Title of thesis
was: Trade Liberalisation, Technological Change and the Skill Structure of
Employment in South Africa
- 1997 - 1998 MSc Economics, London School of Economics and Political
Science
- 1995 - 1996 MA Economics with distinction, University of Cape Town
Relevant Project Experience
- Member of the ‘South African Growth Diagnostics Project’ spearheaded by
the National Treasury (2006-07). Outputs include:
Edwards, L and R Lawrence (2006) South African Trade Policy Matters: Trade
Performance and Trade Policy NBER Working Paper No. 12760.
Edwards, L and R Lawrence (2007) SACU Tariff Policies: Where should they go
from here?
- South Africa chapter (with N. Vink and J. Kirsten) in World Bank project
“Distortions in Agricultural Incentives” managed by K. Anderson
(forthcoming).
- Evaluation of an appropriate model for the SADC Customs Union (2007).
Report commissioned by SADC Secretariat. Completed with Development Network
Africa (DNA)
- Co-Manager in 2005 & 2006 of the ‘Trade and Poverty’ project funded by
the Department for International Development (DFID – UK), USAID and the
Department of Trade and Industry (South Africa).
http://www.saldru.uct.ac.za/saldru_trade&poverty.html
- Co-editor special edition of the Journal of Studies in Economics and
Econometrics (2007, vol 31 (2)) based on the ‘Trade and Poverty Project’ and
co-author of:
“The Benefit-Incidence of Tariff Liberalisation in South Africa” with R. C.
Daniels.
“Trade, enterprise production and employment” with P. Dunne.
“Trade and Poverty in South Africa: Trade sector employment and
vulnerability” with K. Pauw & M. Leibbrandt.
“Trade and Poverty Research Project in SA: Key lessons and policy
recommendations” with M. Stern.
- Economic Report: An analysis of import tariffs in the South African
paper industry. Report prepared for ITAC as part of application for tariff
reductions applicable to paper products (2006).
- A report on Exchange rate depreciation and the trade balance in South
Africa prepared for the National Treasury, 2003.
- Edwards, L. and Golub, S. 2002. South Africa’s International Cost
Competitiveness and Productivity: A Sectoral Analysis. Report prepared for
the National Treasury.
- Two papers, Trade and the structure of South African production, 1984-97
and Globalisation and the skill bias of occupational employment in South
Africa, for the World Bank South African Office ‘Trade, Employment and
Growth’ project, 2000.
- National Enterprise Survey: Investment behaviour in Knowledge Intensive
Sectors. Project report for the Policy Co-ordination and Advisory Services
Unit, Ministry of Trade and Industry, 2000.
Relevant Publications
- Edwards, L. and Lawrence, R. Forthcoming. South African Trade Policy
Matters: Trade Performance & Trade Policy, Forthcoming in Economics of
Transition.
- Edwards, L., Cassim, R. and Van Seventer, D. Forthcoming 2009. “Trade
policy since democracy”. Aron, J., B. Kahn and G. Kingdon (eds.) South
African Economic Policy Under Democracy, Oxford University Press.
- Edwards, L. and Morris, M. 2007. Undressing the numbers: The effect of
import quotas on clothing and textile employment. Journal of Development
Perspectives, 2,2: 121-140.
- Edwards, L. and Alves, P. 2006. South Africa's export performance:
Determinants of export supply. South African Journal of Economics, 74, 3:
473-500.
- Edwards, L. and Behar, A. 2006. Trade liberalisation and labour demand
within South African Manufacturing firms. Journal of Studies in Economics
and Econometrics, 30, 2: 127-146.
- Edwards, L. 2006. Trade liberalisation and labour demand in South Africa
during the 1990s. Chapter 6 In Bhorat, H. and Kanbur, R. (eds.) (1996)
Poverty and Policy in the Post-Apartheid South Africa, HSRC Press.
- Edwards, L. 2005. Has South Africa liberalised its trade. South African
Journal of Economics, 73, 4: 754-775.
- Edwards, L. and Golub, L. 2004. South Africa’s International Cost
Competitiveness and Productivity in Manufacturing. World Development, 32, 8:
1323-1339
- Edwards, L. 2003. A firm level analysis of trade, technology and
employment in South Africa. Journal of International Development, 17: 1-17.
Also a DFID CSSR Research Programme on Globalisation and Poverty Discussion
paper No. 5.
- Edwards, L. 2003. Globalisation and the demand for skills in South
Africa, ID21 Insights issue No. 47, [Online]
http://www.id21.org/insights/insights47/index.html.
- Edwards, L. and Schöer, V. 2002. Measures of competitiveness: a dynamic
approach to South Africa’s trade performance in the 1990s. South African
Journal of Economics, 70, 6: 1008-1046.
- Edwards, L. 2001. Trade and the structure of South African production,
1984-97. Development Southern Africa, 18, 4: 471-492
- Edwards, L. 2001. Globalisation and the skill bias of occupational
employment in South Africa. South African Journal of Economics, 69, 1:
40-71.
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