Research

New research director Dr Caryn Abrahams at WSG

Message from our Research Director

Hello everyone

My name is Caryn Abrahams (PhD), the new Research Director at the Wits School of Governance. I’m excited to embrace the role and the challenges and opportunities it brings. It is a privilege to be able to serve the University and contribute to the Wits School of Governance's vision of becoming a research-led institution of excellence.

 

 

Explore our Research
26 April 2021

Policy Briefing

Monetary and fiscal policy challenges posed by South Africa's deepening economic crisis and the Covid-19 pandemic
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23 April 2021

Fiscal dimensions of South Africa’s crisis

This paper hopes to shed light on how South Africa arrived at the fiscal crisis that it currently faces.
23 April 2021

Social security/protection in South Africa

This paper examines the rationale for an overhaul of the system of social security in SA taking account of long-term social and economic factors.
COVID-19 and beyond Rethinking industrial and competition policy
23 April 2021

COVID-19 and beyond: Rethinking industrial and competition policy

Since the end of formal apartheid in 1994, progress in changing entrenched patterns of economic participation, improving low levels of productive investment...
23 April 2021

Digital Infrastructure: The role of public-private partnerships in mitigating the digital divide

Newlands is a beautiful, lush suburb of Cape Town. It sits at the foot of Table Mountain and boasts both the stunning Kirstenbosch National Botanical Gardens and Newlands Forest.
23 April 2021

Repositioning State-Owned Enterprises and Development Finance Institutions

The purpose of this working paper is to examine three cross-cutting themes.
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Tayarisha Research Centre

The Centre will conduct academically rigorous, cutting-edge research 
on the challenges and opportunities presented by digitalisation, 
particularly in the public sector.

Civic Tech

Civic Tech Innovation Network

Welcome to the Civic Tech Innovation Network

The Civic Tech Innovation Network (CTIN) is a Community of Practice (CoP) and action learning network for people with an interest and commitment to leveraging the nexus between technology and civic activism.