Funding available for PhDs in focus areas
The Faculty's Graduate School of Economic & Management Sciences (GEM) is currently inviting applications for full-time PhD candidates wishing pursue a PhD in one of its defined research themes, to commence studies in January 2015. Scholarships are available to the maximum value of R130 000 per year for three years.
Research themes within Economics include 1) Issues of economic development and social policy (including for instance economic history of a developing country; health policy and social delivery; non-profit organisations in African countries; service delivery; poverty and inequality; economics of education; labour and unemployment), 2) Public economics (including for instance taxation; intergovernmental relations; provincial and local financial management/policies) and 3) Money, macro and finance (for instance the coordination of monetary and fiscal policy; the credit cycle; asset pricing; bank regulation; central bank communication).
The closing date for applications is 31 July 2014. Full details and application forms are available here.
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28 November 2022The domestic focus last week was on the release of the October consumer inflation data, as well as the SA Reserve Bank’s (SARB) latest policy interest rate decision. Another notable local development was that PetroSA provided a temporary diesel lifeline to Eskom, enabling the return to service of the utility’s open cycle gas turbines. On the global...
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BER Weekly
28 November 2022The domestic focus last week was on the release of the October consumer inflation data, as well as the SA Reserve Bank’s (SARB) latest policy interest rate decision. Another notable local development was that PetroSA provided a temporary diesel lifeline to Eskom, enabling the return to service of the utility’s open cycle gas turbines. On the global...
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