CDE Insight | Professor Robert Lawrence on Trump, trade and trouble April 24, 2025 During his visit to South Africa in April 2025, Professor Robert Lawrence, Harvard professor and world-renowned trade expert, held a series of high-... Growth Through Inclusion in South Africa November 15, 2023 The report, Growth Through Inclusion in South Africa was produced by the Harvard Growth Lab, led by Professor Ricardo Hausmann. It outlines the resu... A Country in Crisis: First steps towards a growth strategy October 30, 2023 CDE’s new report, A country in crisis: First steps towards a growth strategy, builds on our diagnosis of SA’s anti-growth-strategy, and urges govern... The Seven Sins of Localisation: Can South Africa afford this costly policy? September 8, 2023 In June 2023, CDE held a roundtable discussion with key stakeholders on how localisation is progressing, what its proponents see as important argume... South Africa's Anti-Growth Strategy: How poor policy and bad governance are wrecking growth June 5, 2023 The latest report in CDE’s Growth Agenda series argues that slow economic growth is overwhelmingly the result of bad policy choices and a catastroph... Poverty and a Basic Income Grant: Six questions about a BIG June 7, 2022 There is no clarity about what proponents of a BIG want, but it seems like they envisage a programme that would cost between R200 billion and R300 bi...
