TRADE research focus area

Program

Meeting:	TRADE colloquium

Date of meeting:	21 July 2016

Time of meeting:	11:00-13:00

Meeting room:	Room 138, E3 building

11:00	Welcoming

11:00-11:30	Emmanuel Orkoh (PhD Economics): Intra-household time allocation and poverty in Ghana (Promoter: D Blaauw, C Claassen) (20 minutes presentation, 10 minutes discussion)

11:35-11:55	Darlington Chizema (MCom Economics): Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) outflows from South African retail firms to Sub-Saharan Africa (Supervisor: H Bezuidenhout, E Kleynhans) (15 minutes presentation, 5 minutes discussion)

11:55-12:15	Jacob van Rensburg (MCom International Trade): A comparative analysis of Southern African trade corridors using port selection as the point of departure (Supervisors: S Grater) (15 minutes presentation, 5 minutes discussion)

12:15-12:35	Frieda Scheepers (MCom Economics): An economic impact assessment of adverse climate change on South African grain farming (Supervisors: E Idsardi, A Fourie) (15 minutes presentation, 5 minutes discussion)

12:35	Closing

12:45	AHA research series kick-off: Waldo Krugell