Haroon Bhorat

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Haroon Bhorat
Born
Cape Town
NationalitySouth African
InstitutionUniversity of Cape Town
FieldDevelopment economics
Labour economics
Alma materUniversity of Cape Town (BA)
Stellenbosch University (MA) (Ph.D.)

Haroon Bhorat is Professor of Economics and Director of the Development Policy Research Unit (DPRU)[1] at the University of Cape Town.[2] His area of research has concentrated on labour economics and poverty/income distribution mainly in his native South Africa, and recently, been expanded to other parts of Africa - in which he is world-renowned authority.

Early life and education[]

Bhorat was born in Roodepoort, South Africa. Bhorat attended his high school at Diocesan College (Bishops) in Cape Town before proceeding to University for a BA (Honours) in Economics from University of Cape Town in 1991.[3] He completed the coursework component of a Master of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1992, then proceeded to obtain a Masters and Ph.D., in Economics from Stellenbosch University in 1996 and 2003 respectively.[3][4]

Career[]

Haroon Bhorat is Professor of Economics, at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. He is also the Director of the Development Policy Research Unit (DPRU), a university-recognized research unit located within the School of Economics at the University of Cape Town.

Bhorat is a member of the South African Presidential Economic Advisory Council (PEAC),[5] announced by President Cyril Ramaphosa in the 2019 State of the Nation Address (South Africa), to ensure greater coherence and consistency in the implementation of economic policy and ensure that government and society in general is better equipped to respond to changing economic circumstances.

Bhorat also advised Presidents Thabo Mbeki and Kgalema Motlanthe on economic matters, formally serving on the Presidential Economic Advisory Panel. He has served as advisor to the South African Treasury, and two former South African Ministers of Finance, including Pravin Gordhan.

He joined the IZA as Research Fellow in January 2013[6] and is a regular IZA World of Labor contributor.[7] In 2013/4 he was invited to be a Non-resident Senior Fellow [8] at Brookings affiliated to the Global Economy and Development programme, and working on the Africa Growth Initiative (AGI). Bhorat was inducted to the UCT College of Fellows in 2021.[9]

Bhorat consults for a number of supranational organisations such as the World Bank, the UNDP, and the ILO to name a few. He is an Advisory Board Member for the UNU World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER),[10] Executive Committee Member for the International Economic Association (IEA),[11] a member of the ILO’s Global Research Reference Group (RRG), a member of Board of Directors for Partnership for Economic Policy (PEP).[12]

He also served as a Social Sciences jury member for the Infosys Prize 2020.[13]

Academic contributions[]

In a series of studies conducted with Murray Leibbrandt and Ingrid Woolard, race was a good predictor of vulnerability in the South African labour market.[14][15]

Bhorat has also conducted research on Sub-Saharan Africa economies' labour markets, where he finds a largely unenforced minimum wage laws riddled with complexity and vagueness.[16] Furthermore, the study finds that the minimum wage levels within Sub-Saharan Africa seem to be set at various levels relative to median wages, with largely negative impacts on employment levels within African countries.

Bibliography[]

Edited books[]

These are the edited books:

  • Haroon Bhorat; Finn Tarp, eds. (2016). Africa's Lions: Growth Traps and Opportunities for Six African Economies. Brookings Institution Press. p. 270. ISBN 9780815729495.

Journal articles[]

Bhorat has written dozens of journal articles including:

References[]

  1. ^ "DPRU". Retrieved August 23, 2021.
  2. ^ "Professor Haroon Bhorat". Retrieved January 19, 2018.
  3. ^ Jump up to: a b "Haroon Bhorat" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on January 20, 2018. Retrieved January 18, 2018.
  4. ^ "Haroon Bhorat". 2016-02-11. Retrieved January 19, 2018.
  5. ^ "President appoints Economic Advisory Council". Retrieved August 17, 2021.
  6. ^ "Haroon Bhorat Research Fellow". Retrieved January 19, 2018.
  7. ^ "IZA Contributors". Retrieved February 9, 2021.
  8. ^ "Brookings Senior Fellows". Retrieved August 17, 2021.
  9. ^ "UCT College of Fellows new members". Retrieved August 17, 2021.
  10. ^ "UNU WIDER Board". Retrieved August 23, 2021.
  11. ^ "IEA Exec Committee". Retrieved August 23, 2021.
  12. ^ "Member of the Board of the Partnership for Economic Policy". Retrieved August 17, 2021.
  13. ^ "Infosys Prize - Jury 2020url=http://www.infosys-science-foundation.com/prize/jury/jury-2020.asp". www.infosys-science-foundation.com. Missing or empty |url= (help); |access-date= requires |url= (help)
  14. ^ Haroon Bhorat; Murray Leibbrandt (1999). "Correlates of Vulnerability in the South African Labour Market" (PDF). DPRU Working Paper (99/27).
  15. ^ Haroon Bhorat; Murray Leibbrandt; Ingrid Woolard (1999). "Understanding Contemporary Household Inequality in South Africa". DPRU Working Paper (99/25). doi:10.2139/ssrn.943391. hdl:11427/7246. S2CID 53599919.
  16. ^ Haroon Bhorat; Ravi Kanbur; Benjamin Stanwix (2017). "Minimum Wages in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Primer". The World Bank Research Observer. 32 (1): 21–74. doi:10.1093/wbro/lkw007.

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