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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Upcoming Seminars
Monday 21 July 202512:00-13:00
Izak Odendaal: Old Mutual Wealth Chief Investment Strategist
Topic: "Diverging fiscal policies and what it means for markets"
12:00-13:00
Dr Neil Rankin: Ceo Of Predictive Insights & Stellenbosch University
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Prof Willem Boshoff: Stellenbosch University
Topic: "Two competing approaches in South African competition policy: merger control and anti-cartel enforcement over the past 30 years"
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27 Jun 2025 Another setback for the GNU, but oil markets breathe a little easierThis week was marked by heightened tensions both domestically and internationally. At home, friction intensified between the two largest parties in the Government of National Unity (GNU), the ANC and the DA, following the firing of one of the DA's deputy ministers. Internationally, the US conducted airstrikes on three Iranian nuclear facilities using...
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