Haroon Bhorat

Haroon Bhorat is Professor of Economics and Director of the Development Policy Research Unit (DPRU) at the University of Cape Town.[1] 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.

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.)

Early life and education

Bhorat was born in Cape Town. Bhorat attended his high school at Diocesan College (Bishops) in Cape Town before proceeding to University for a BA (Honours) from University of Cape Town in 1991.[2] He then proceeded to obtain a Masters and Ph.D., both in Economics from Stellenbosch University in 1996 and 2003 respectively.[2][3]

Career

Bhorat advised Presidents Thabo Mbeki and Kgalema Motlanthe on economic matters serving on the Presidential Economic Advisory Panel.[3] He also advised the South African Treasury.

He joined the IZA as Research fellow in January 2013.[4]

Bhorat consults for a number of supranational organisations such as the World Bank, the UNDP, and the ILO to name a few.[3] He also works as a Non-resident Senior Fellow at Brookings working on the Africa Growth Initiative programme. He also served as a Social Sciences jury member for the Infosys Prize 2020.[5]

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.[6][7]

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.[8] 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.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)

Journal articles

Bhorat has written dozens of journal articles including:

References
  1. "Professor Haroon Bhorat". Retrieved January 19, 2018.
  2. "Haroon Bhorat" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on January 20, 2018. Retrieved January 18, 2018.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  3. "Haroon Bhorat". 2016-02-11. Retrieved January 19, 2018.
  4. "Haroon Bhorat Research Fellow". Retrieved January 19, 2018.
  5. "Infosys Prize - Jury 2020". www.infosys-science-foundation.com. Retrieved 2020-12-09.
  6. Haroon Bhorat; Murray Leibbrandt (1999). "Correlates of Vulnerability in the South African Labour Market" (PDF). DPRU Working Paper (99/27).CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  7. 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.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  8. 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.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
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