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Unemployment worse than the gloomy official numbers suggest – Solidarity
By: African News Agency 1st August 2019 South Africa's official unemployment numbers as announced by the national statistics agency this week, although alarming, still paint a rosier... →
Adoption of the French Digital Services Tax
22nd July 2019 On 11 July, the French Senate (following the French National Assembly on 4 July) adopted the law creating a "Tax on certain services provided by... →
SA: Cyril Ramaphosa: Address by President, during his State of The Nation Address, Parliament, Cape Town (20/06/19)
21st June 2019 We gather here at the start of the 6th Democratic Parliament, 106 years to the day after the Natives Land Act – one of the most devastating acts of... →
Monitoring and learning for country-level portfolio decision-making and adaptation
31st May 2019 Most measurement and adaptive management approaches were developed for and from individual projects. This briefing aims to guide measurement and... →
Technical innovation, supply chain trade, and workers in a globalized world
28th May 2019 Technological developments, such as robotics and big data, are reshaping global value chains (GVCs), leading to changes in labour markets and... →
South Africa's voter turnout: a mathematician runs the numbers
28th May 2019 It has commonly been believed in South Africa that voter turnout in national elections has been fairly high when compared with other countries,... →
Poverty and Inequality – Diagnosis, Prognosis and Response
27th May 2019 State of the Nation 2018 covers a diversity of perspectives that highlight the interrelationship and intersectionality between structural,... →
Collaboration seen as key as SA moves to position for 4IR epoch 
By: Natasha Odendaal 17th May 2019 While President Cyril Ramaphosa’s Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) visions for South Africa are gaining some traction, the success of a new... →
