STEG IPG

• Stephen Gelb

  Topic: Diaspora Finance

  Date: Wednesday 3 June 2026

• Lekha S Chakraborty

  Topic: Economic Policies for Gender Equity in Times of Geopolitical Uncertainties

  Date: Friday 19 June 2026

• Elvis Avenyo

  Topic: Gendering Strucutral Change and Green Transition in Africa: Implications of Transformative Policies

  Date: Wednesday 4 March 2026

• Xiliang Zhang

  Topic: China's Decarbonisation Pathways: Energy Transitions and Climate Policy Developments

  Date: Tuesday 12 May 2026

• Abebe Shimeles

  Topic: External Debt and Growth in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Distinguishing Debt Inflows from Debt Burdens

  Date: 23 April 2026

• Amina Ebrahim

  Topic: The Employment Tax Incentive at Ten: Evidence, Lessons and the 2029 Sunset Clause

  Date: Tuesday 31 March 2026

• Lennard Zyska

  Topic: Unequal Outages: Distributive Politics and Economic Effects of Electricity Scarcity

  Date: Thursday 19 March 2026

• 2026

  • Dave Kaplan Memorial at the University of Cape Town (UCT) School of Economics (SoE) - 11 March 2026
  • Seminar: Regionalizing African Mineral Value Chains: Requirements for Success - 12 February 2026

   

  Please contact Raynold Runganga at RNGRAY001@myuct.ac.za should you have any queries or if you wish to present at the PRISM Brown Bag/Seminar Series. 

• 2025

  • Brown Bag Series: Development of Special Economic Zones (SEZ): A Comparative Study Based on China, South Africa and India by Chongseng Yang - 25 September 2025
  • Brown Bag Series: Design Matters: How Environmental Provisions in Preferential Trade Agreements Shape Exports by Catherine Smith - 27 August 2025
  • Brown Bag Series: The impact of military expenditure on public debt and growth: Evidence from ECOWAS by Ibrahim Kambaima - 20 August 2025
  • Brown Bag Series: Pathways to Equitably Leaving Fossil Fuels Underground - CLIFF Interactive Atlas and Agents of Change by Yang Chen - 14 August 2025
  • Brown Bag Series: A Review and Socio-Economic IMpact Assessment Study of the Export Tax on Ferrous Scrap and the Steel Value Chain by Matthew Stern and Godfrey Kamutando - 25 June 2025
  • Brown Bag Series: Chinese Import Penetration and Worker's Job Duration: Evidence from South African Firms in the Manufacturing Sector by Raynold Runganga - 18 June 2025
  • Brown Bag Series: Deindustrialization in Developing Countries and the Impact of China's Expansion: Empirical Evidence 1995-2015 by Lorenzo Cassi - 11 June 2025
  • Brown Bag Series: The Interoperability of Carbon Pricing within the Context of Border Carbon Adjustments (BCAs) - An Initial Review by Nicky Wills - 07 May 2025
  • Seminar: Celebrating Professor Harald Winkler's A1 NRF rating - 23 April 2025
  • Brown Bag Series: The Impact of Preferential Trade Agreements on African Trade by Jing Chien - 12 February 2025

• 2024

  • Brown Bag Series: Culture, Global Sourcing and Friendshoring by Chanelle Duley - 27 November 2024
  • Brown Bag Series: Beyond Offshoring: Tradable Services and Regional Markets in Africa and Latin America by Sören Scholvin - 30 October 2024
  • Seminar: Food and Peace? Exploring the Link between Conflict and Food Insecurity in Africa by Paul Dunne - 23 October 2024
  • Brown Bag Series: Transport Infrastructure and Intra-African Trade: A New Empirical Evidence by Guivis Nkemgha - 16 October 2024
  • Brown Bag Series: Import Duty Investigation by Donald MacKay - 9 October 2024
  • Seminar: Financial Security, Climate Shocks and Social Cohesion by Sanda Sequeira - 28 August 2024
  • Brown Bag Series: Import Shocks and Labour Market Adjustments: Evidence from South Africa by Raynold Runganga - 7 August 2024
  • Brown Bag Series: The Role of Multinational Oil & Gas Companies in Leaving Fossil Fuels Underground by Nina Herzog - 31 July 2024
  • Brown Bag Series: Navigating Green Goods Trade: Insights from South Africa's Exports by Katlego Letsoalo and Simphiwe Dlamini - 16 July 2024
  • Brown Bag Series: Presentation by the incoming post-doctoral student (Guivis Nkemgha) on his work - 26 June 2024
  • Brown Bag Series: Estimating the scale of illucut financial flows: the abnormal flows method by Bathusi Gabanatlhong - 22 May 2024
  • Brown Bag Series: Gravity and Cross-Border Influence: The Importance of Distance in Mobile Telecommunications by Wihan Marais - 15 May 2024
  • Seminar: The BRICS Currency Debate: A New BRICS Currency? A New Reserve Currency? or, Local Currency De-Dollarization by Mark Ellyne - 08 May 2024
  • Brown Bag Series: Profit Shifting by Multinational Corporations: Evidence from Transaction-level data in Nigeria by Bathusi Gabanatlhong - 24 April 2024
  • Brown Bag Series: Trade Shocks, Employment Stability and Informal Local Labour Markets: Evidence from South Africa by Raynold Runganga - 10 April 2024

• 2023

  • A just transition and the political economy of a green industrial policy in South Africa by Nicholas van Doesburgh - 5 October 2023
  • Costs of Conflict Revisited by Paul Dunne - 21 September 2023.
  • Demand for Smartphones and Digital Divide by Lukasz Grzybowski - 7 September 2023
  • Reporting (f)or Climate Action? Assessing the effects of participation in global climate transparency arrangements for domestic climate action by Max van Deursen - 17 August 2023
  • Seminar: Challenges of Artisanal Mining in Africa by Professor Remi Bazillier - 26 April 2023
  • Brown Bag Series: Trade and Gender in South Africa by Asha Sundaram - 2 March 2023
  • Brown Bag Series: Efficiency and Resource Allocation - An Analysis of the Current Rights Allocation Debate in the Hake Trawl Fishery by Tony Leiman and Daniel Rossmeisl - 23 February 2023

• 2022

  • Seminar: The Consumer Price Effects of Specific Trade Policy Restrictions in South Africa by Lawrence Edwards - 24 November 2022
  • Brown Bag Series: Labour Market Segmentation within and between the Formal and Informal Manufacturing Sector in Zimbabwe - 10 November 2022
  • Seminar: World Energy Employment by Olivia Chen (International Energy Agency) - 17 October 2022
  • Brown Bag Series: Persistence in employability and wages of youth post-wage subsidies: Matched firm-employee level evidence from South Africa by David Fadiran and Godfrey Kamutando - 13 October 2022
  • Seminar: New Technology and the Changing Military Industrial Complex by Paul Dunne - 15 September 2022
  • Seminar: Liberalization, democratization and the remaking of the South African corporate network 1993–2020 by Niall Reddy - 01 September 2022
  • Seminar: Creating employment and reducing emissions: Options for South Africa by Harald Winkler and Anthony Black - 05 August 2022
  • Brown Bag Series: Corruption, Trade, Informal Employment and Economic Development by Raynold Runganga - 07 July 2022
  • Roundtable on Manufacturing with the Growth Lab Group, Center for International Development at Harvard University - 11 March 2022
  • Seminar: International perspectives on manufacturing employment: Implications for South Africa by Robert Lawrence - 23 February 2022

• 2019

  • Seminar: Interactive session on current controversies in the global economy by Jeffrey Bergstrand- 16 October 2019
  • Seminar Presentation - The Gains from International Trade with Increasing Marginal Costs by Jeffrey Bergstrand - 14 October 2019
  • The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) Workshop: The gains, the challenges and the rationale for the agreement by Jeffrey Bergstrand - 14 October 2019
  • Workshop: Is the garment industry still a stepping stone to industrialisation for low income countries? - 9 October 2019
  • UNIDO-PRISM Workshop: Global Value Chains and Economic Development in Sub-Saharan Africa . PRISM hosted a workshop for postgraduate students on global value chains (GVCs) and the role they play in sub-Saharan Africa’s economic development - 19 September 2019
  • Seminar: Late-late industrialization in the context of global value chains - The case of the apparel export sector in Ethiopia by Cornelia Staritz and Leonhard Plank - 21 February 2019
  • Seminar: Strategy for industrial development in Sub-Saharan by Keijiro Otsuka
  • Workshop: Labour intensive industrialisation in Africa by Keijiro Otsuka
  • Seminar: Challenges and Constraints for Government Agencies Supporting Technology Based Start-ups: Some Reflections from South Africa

• 2018

  • Workshop on Understanding the key elements of the Green Transformation, Green Economic Inclusive Growth, and African Development with Tilman Altenburg, Belynda Petrie and Mike Levington - 14 March 2018
  • Seminar: Policies for green industry development in developing countries by Tilman Altenburg - 2 March 2018
  • Seminar: Structural transformation in Sub-Saharan Africa: What are the opportunities, and what role for industrial policy?

• 2017

  • Seminar: Constructing a Developmental State in South Africa: Indigenisation, Learning, Export and Infrastructure as a Path to Inclusive Growth by Ayal Belling - 13 October 2017
  • Seminar: The Impact of Mobile Number Portability on Demand Price Elasticities in Sub-Saharan African Countries by Onkokame Mothobi - 2 June 2017
  • Seminar: Natural resources – from resource curse to resource for innovation
  • Seminar:Industrial policy in developing countries

• Harald Winkler

  Topic: Transitioning away from Fossil Fuels in a Just, Orderly and Equitable Manner: A Quantitative Overview of Countries' Different National Circumstances, Fossil Fuel Dependence and Opportunities for Flourishing Post Fossil Economies

  Date: Monday 25 May 2026

• Zuzana Schwidrowski

  Topic: Family Firms and Gender Gaps in Credit Market Participation: Evidence from Transition Economies

  Date: Monday 4 May 2026

Three PhD scholarships have been awarded under the PRISM–STEG Institutional Partner Grant. Nicola Wills, Geraint Van der Rede and Raynold Runganga have each received support for doctoral research closely aligned with STEG themes.

• Dale Mudenda

  

  Dale Mudenda is a Lecturer at the University of Zambia. He holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Cape Town and a MA and BA from the Universities of Malawi and Zambia respectively. On his visit to PRISM, Dale worked on and presented research on "Ethnic Similarity, and Intra-national Price Integration: Evidence from Zambia"

  Visiting Dates: 6 - 10 July 2026