The book, "Fuel Taxes and the Poor, The Distributional Effects of Gasoline Taxation and Their Implications for Climate Policy" will be launched at the University of Cape Town, School of Economics on…
Poverty, natural resource management, and environmental degradation are inextricably linked, and this course explores ways that economic analysis can help identify underlying problems and formulate…
Fuel Taxes and the Poor challenges the conventional wisdom that gasoline taxation, an important and much-debated instrument of climate policy, has a disproportionately detrimental effect on poor…
Press release in connection with EfD Policy Day Arusha, Tanzania, 27 October 2011 Wildlife is a vital economic asset in many parts of Southern Africa. Allowing poor communities in Southern Africa to…
UCT students pile into a VC Beetle, demonstrating the importance of car pooling - and doing their best to limit their carbon footprint. Carbon emissions trading across international borders has been a…
The Optimum Energy Future debate hosted by EPRU the 16th of August at the UCT School Economics was the opportunity to discuss with policy decision makers, academics and other relevant stakeholders the…
EfD-EPRU Research Associate Stephanie Giamporcaro lectured in March 2011 on Sustainable and Responsible Investment for the innovative Mphil in Development Finance launched recently by UCT Graduate…
A contribution of EfD/EPRU Research Fellow Edwin Muchapondwa to the policy debate in Zimbabwe Zimbabwe’s civil servants offer vital services to the nation and they deserve decent pay. Unfortunately…
Optimal park pricing can help achieve sustainable park management in eastern and southern Africa. The EfD center in South Africa, EPRU, co-hosted the second park pricing workshop in Victoria Falls…
Anthony Leiman gave a talk on the economic value of the False Bay Ecology Park and the City of Cape Town nature reserves (including wetlands and green belt) at the conference Local Climate Solutions…