Journal of African Economies special issue: contributors
Contributors
South Africa’s Growth Revival After 1994
Ben Smit is Director of the Bureau for Economic Research and Professor of Economics at Stellenbosch University. His research interests include macro-econometric modeling, macroeconomic policy and international finance. He has contributed to a number of recent South African national economic policy initiatives such as GEAR and ASGISA.
Stan du Plessis is a macroeconomist and Professor in the Department of Economics, University of Stellenbosch in South Africa. He publishes on monetary policy and the business cycles, and has also written on fiscal policy, economic growth, the exchange rate, institutional economics and law and economics.
Review of Monetary Policy in South Africa since 1994
Janine Aron is a Researcher in the Department of Economics, University of Oxford, based at the Centre for the Study of African Economies. She lectures in Oxford on international finance, and is a Research Associate with the CREFSA, London School of Economics. Her recent publications fall mainly in the area of monetary policy and macroeconomics in South Africa.
John Muellbauer is Professor of Economics at Oxford University and an Official Fellow of Nuffield College. He has published widely on consumer behaviour and in applied macroeconomics. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and of the Econometric Society.
Fiscal Renaissance in a Democratic South Africa
Tania Ajam is the CEO of the Applied Fiscal Research Centre (Pty) Ltd, a research based consulting company affiliated to the University of Cape Town. She is also the MD of Performance Budgeting Systems (Pty) Ltd and serves on the Financial and Fiscal Commission of South Africa. She researches on the design and implementation of fiscal policy, intergovernmental fiscal relations and reform of budgetary institutions.
Janine Aron (see above)
Unemployment in South Africa, 1995–2003: Causes, Problems and Policies
Geeta Kingdon is Professor at the Institute of Education, London University, having previously been at the CSAE, Department of Economics, University of Oxford. She is a Development Economist and has published widely in Economics of Education, Labour Economics and the Economics of Happiness.
John Knight is Professor of Economics in the University of Oxford. He has published widely on human capital, labour market, and inequality issues in both China and Africa.
Apartheid’s Enduring Legacy: Inequalities in Education
Servaas van der Berg is NRF Research Chair in the Economics of Social Policy at the University of Stellenbosch. He is closely involved in policy research and publishes widely on topics related to poverty, inequality, education and social assistance.
Poverty and Inequality in the First Decade of South Africa’s Democracy: What can be Learnt from Panel Data from KwaZulu-Natal?
Michael Carter is professor of agricultural and applied economics at the University of Wisconsin and also directs the BASIS Collaborative Research Support Program that studies rural poverty alleviation strategies. His research focuses on the nature of growth and transformation in low income economies.
Jorge Agüero is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of California, Riverside and a SALDRU Affiliate at the University of Cape Town. His areas of research include human capital accumulation, discrimination and the evaluation of anti-poverty programs.
Julian May is Associate Professor and Head of the School of Development Studies at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. His research interests include poverty and inequality, population change, agrarian reform, and impact assessment methodologies.
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