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DAY 1: Wednesday, 18 October 2006
Guidelines for Presenters and Discussants:
Plenary: 30 minutes for
presenters;
Parallel Sessions (90 minutes): 20 minutes for Presenters, 5
minutes for Discussants,
15 minutes for General Discussion
14:00 -
15:30 Parallel Session 1
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Parallel Session 1A:
Education and the
Labour Market |
Parallel Session 1B:
Infrastructure
and Shared Growth |
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Chair:
Murray Leibbrandt,
UCT |
Chair:
Stephen Yeo,
CEPR |
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Speaker 1:
Unemployment, Education and Skills
Constraints in Post-Apartheid South Africa. Dorrit Posel & Rosa Dias,
UKZN |
Speaker 1:
Infrastructure and Growth in South Africa:
Direct and Indirect Productivity Impacts of Nineteen
Infrastructure Measures. Johannes
Fedderke,
UCT & Z Bogetic,
World Bank |
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Discussant: Martin Wittenberg,
UCT |
Discussant:
Jrn Ratts,
NUST, Norway |
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Speaker 2:
Education Screening in South Africa's Labour
Market. Steven F Koch & Simon Ssekabira
Ntege, UP |
Speaker 2:
Assessing the Impact of Transnet and Eskom's
Infrastructure Investment Programmes on the Capital Goods Sector
and Key Constraints. Marian Walker,
WITS
University |
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Discussant:
Servaas van der Berg,
UStell |
Discussant:
Alberto Behar,
Nuffield College & Oxford University |
Speaker 3:
Graduate Unemployment in the Face of
Skills Shortages: A Labour Market Paradox.
Kalie Pauw, Mornéé
Oosthuizen & Carlene van der Westhuizen,
DPRU |
Speaker 3:
An Economy-Wide Impact Assessment of the Economic
Infrastructure Investment Component of the Accelerated & Shared
Growth Initiative (ASGISA). Dirk van Seventer,
TIPS & Rob
Davies, HSRC |
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Discussant:
Neva Makgetla,
The
Presidency |
Discussant: James Thurlow,
IFPRI |
15:30 - 16:00
Tea
16:00 - 17:30 Parallel Session 2
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Parallel Session 2A:
The Informal Economy |
Parallel Session 2B:
South African
Industry |
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Chair:
Neva Makgetla,
The
Presidency |
Chair:
Ashok Bhundia,
Goldman
Sachs, Europe |
Speaker 1:
Perceived Barriers to Entry into
Self-Employment in Khayelitsha, South Africa:
Crime, Risk, and Start-up Capital Dominate Profit Concerns. Paul
Cichello, Loyola College, Colin Almeleh,
ASRU, UCT, Liberty Ncube, & Mornéé
Oosthuizen,
DPRU |
Speaker 1:
Measures of Manufacturing Industry
Concentration Implications for South Africa.
Clifford Naude,
Exponential Economics Consulting |
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Discussant: Dorrit Posel,
UKZN |
Discussant: Witness Simbanegavi,
UCT |
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Speaker 2:
Second Best? Trends and Linkages in the Informal
Economy in South Africa.
Richard Devey, Caroline Skinner & Imraan Valodia,
UKZN |
Speaker 2:
Globalisation, Imports and Local Content in the South African
Automotive Industry. Anthony
Black & Sipho Bhanisi,
UCT |
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Discussant: Neil Rankin,
WITS
University |
Discussant:
Nigel Gwynne-Evans,
TCI |
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Speaker 3:
Trade Dynamics in Used Clothing: The Case of
Durban, South Africa. Myriam Velia,
Imraan Valodia & Barutti Amisi,
UKZN |
Speaker 3:
Weak Links in the BEE Chain? Procurement, Skills and Employment
Equity in the Metals and Engineering Industries.
Lesenda G Mohamed,
IDC & Simon Roberts,
WITS
University |
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Discussant: Matthew Stern,
DNA |
Discussant: Khehla Shubane,
BusinessMap Foundation |
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