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		<title>REFA Presentation on Predistribution and Black Economic Empowerment</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Sep 2022 04:44:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Interview on Unemployment Data &#8211; Quarter 2 / 2021</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ebrahim-Khalil Hassen]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2021 06:48:26 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The recent labour force data paints a worrying picture. The scale of the problem has grown, but this problem has been around for decades. The coverage of the data was interesting, with even mainstream press covering the depth of the challenge facing South Africa. I discussed a few of the issues with Ayabonga Cawe on [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Thoughts on predistribution and B-BBEE: lessons from trade union investment companies and ESOPs in South Africa</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ebrahim-Khalil Hassen]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2021 15:53:35 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A bit of nervous in introducing the concept of predistribution at a webinar hosted by the South Centre for Inequality Studies. Below are the slides from the presentation which is loosely based on a chapter I wrote on Trade Union Investment Companies and Employee Share Ownership Plan (ESOP). The paper is available on the MISTRA [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Talking MTBPS 2020</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ebrahim-Khalil Hassen]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2020 11:37:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I enjoyed chatting about the Medium-Term Budget Policy Statement 2020 with Nwabisa Nontenja from YFM. I gave my insights on the history of the South African budget process and proposes an alternative approach that prioritises and protects government spending on poverty alleviation and employment creation.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Can you hear the pandemic in MTBPS 2020?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ebrahim-Khalil Hassen]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2020 11:20:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#8216;We listen to everyone; only hear a few&#8217; &#160;Minister Mboweni deviated from his Medium Term Budget Policy Statement (MTBPS 2020) speech to voice these words. &#160;Andile and Tumi wondered if they were even heard. Andile and Tumi were once upwardly&#160; mobile, &#160;but due to the lockdown face the prospect of a slide into long-term poverty. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Using open contracting to connect the dots</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ebrahim-Khalil Hassen]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2020 11:18:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[We are a nation of dot connectors, yet some dot connections are more equal than others. The&#160;Public Procurement Bill (PDF)&#160;released by the National Treasury should connect the dots from the State Capture Commission and use this experience to propel &#160;a reform agenda. The&#160;Public Procurement Bill&#160;&#160;makes many useful interventions. Taken together these interventions will however not [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Elections 2019- Why small business policies should be less certain</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ebrahim-Khalil Hassen]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2019 11:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The 2019 election manifestos reveal ‘what is possible’ for small business and entrepreneurship policy in South Africa. The proposals are however inadequate to create a successful small business sector. In fact,&#160; this consensus makes the ‘proliferation of small business’ – to use the parlance of the National Development Plan &#8211; &#160;impossible. Outcomes on small business [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Counting structural unemployment.</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ebrahim-Khalil Hassen]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Apr 2019 11:08:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Unemployment is either “frictional” or “structural”. In textbooks the definitions are precise, but for this article: Frictional&#160;means one is likely to get a job &#160;fairly quickly through job searching &#160;Structural&#160;means that one is unlikely to get a job even if one searches over an extended period. These concepts are constructed around: Supply and demand: In [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>A Budget Imaginary to tackle Very Real Inequality</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ebrahim-Khalil Hassen]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2019 11:04:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Can public expenditure be egalitarian? This question is all but absent in discussions on Budget 2019 . It is the so-called efficiency question that dominates. The efficiency question seeks legitimate answers in the ratios of debt, expenditure and revenue to Gross Domestic Product (GDP). If these measures are acceptable, investors will tick boxes and potentially [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Open to talents not capture</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ebrahim-Khalil Hassen]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2019 10:59:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Are the talented ones  appointed?  An important question, because corruption  thrives on rigging selection and appointment processes. In keeping with the French saying, carrière est ouverte aux talents (positions are open to those with talents), the answer to the question requires accepting the principle of merit based and open recruitment. This article outlines the reforms needed to [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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