Flawed methods lead to dangerous conclusions on SRD lifeline
By: Econ3x3 14th August 2026 This article critiques two 2026 academic papers that argue that the Covid-19 SRD grant led to reductions in household income and expenditure and... →
Sweet smell of success: how South Africa overtook Spain as the world's largest citrus exporter by volume
By: Econ3x3 6th August 2026 Last year, South Africa overtook Spain to become the world’s largest exporter of citrus. It marked a turning point in the world’s citrus industry... →
How tariffs on manufacturing affect employment in the services sector
By: Econ3x3 30th July 2026 South Africa faces unemployment and deindustrialisation. Manufacturing tariff cuts in the 1990s were expected to reallocate workers into services.... →
Rethinking title deeds in former homelands: what do households want?
By: Econ3x3 22nd July 2026 In significant parts of rural South Africa, people occupy land not through formal title deeds but through a system of land allocation rooted in the... →
Why we should count our chickens
By: Econ3x3 16th July 2026 South Africa has 168 million chickens. What does their location tell us about food security and the resilience of this key agricultural sub-sector?... →
How the legacy of apartheid geography shapes housing wealth
By: Econ3x3 24th June 2026 Housing wealth accounts for up to 65% of the total assets of the average South African household, yet its potential to reduce inequality is reduced... →
Stuck at the start, 50 years on: Youth unemployment and exclusion in a low-growth, unequal, changing economy
By: Econ3x3 19th June 2026 On June 16, 1976, thousands of school students in Soweto took to the streets to protest against Afrikaans as a medium of instruction. But the... →
Illicit alcohol trade: A growing problem or an industry narrative?
By: Econ3x3 11th June 2026 The National Treasury has proposed substantially increasing excise taxes on alcohol. In response, the alcohol industry commissioned its own... →
Land reform that works: What successful farmers can teach us
By: Econ3x3 4th June 2026 A popular narrative holds that land reform has failed. But evidence from a study across four provinces tells a different story. Success is not... →
The city outside the city: governance and growth on the urban periphery
By: Econ3x3 28th May 2026 Millions of South Africans are opting for a "third way" of urban living: low-density, spacious housing on the urban periphery under traditional... →
