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
