Imraan Valodia
Biographic Data
| ID | 1268526 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Imraan Valodia |
| GIVEN NAMES | Imraan |
| FAMILY NAME | Valodia |
| SIGNATURE | VALODIA I |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of the Witwatersrand |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5607-6595 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Price discrimination in merger review in South Africa
Mergers have the potential to give firms access to more data from which to draw insights about consumers. This may help firms to better discern which consumers are price insensitive or captive, or exhibit behavioural biases, that they can exploit by charging them higher prices or nudging them towards higher priced options. Based on recent case precedent, we believe that the transfer or sharing of data or techniques in mergers involving price-disc…
Ownership and inequality
This paper examines the link between competition policy and inequality in developing countries. We outline the theoretical linkages between competition and consumption, ownership, and distribution. We then discuss the specific contextual factors relevant to developing countries, such as concentrated product markets, labour markets characterised by high levels of unemployment, and various political and institutional factors related to competition …
Exploring production centred redistribution to address rising inequality
Policy interventions to address widening inequality have focused on fiscal-based redistributive measures as governments remain less inclined directly to intervene in shaping outcomes within the production system itself. However, low and stagnating tax rates and contractions in social spending have reduced the quantum of resources available to address inequality, curtailing the effectiveness of such policies. Clearly, the pursuit of purely redistr…
Empowerment versus (re)distribution in South Africa
The Oxford Handbook of the South African Economy
While South Africa shares some characteristics with other middle-income countries, it has a unique economic history with distinctive characteristics. South Africa is an economic powerhouse with a significant role not only at the southern African regional and continental levels, but also as a member of BRICS. However, the country faces profound developmental challenges, including the ‘triple challenges’ of poverty, inequality and unemployment. The…
Oxford Handbook of the South African Economy
Inequality in the South African labour market
In 2019, South Africa implemented a national minimum wage (NMW) for the first time. This is an important intervention, given that the South African labour market continues to generate some of the highest levels of income and wealth inequality in the world. The minimum wage is intended as a structural intervention to transform the labour market by setting a wage floor, while highlighting larger issues that continue to reproduce inequality in the l…
Inequality Studies from the Global South
Politics, Policy, and Inequality in South Africa Under Covid-19
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted and exacerbated inequalities in South Africa. The question posed in this article is whether the pandemic and its associated responses offer the opportunity for a more egalitarian society in South Africa, or a more intensively unequal society. The future is contested. On the one hand, there is the consolidation of labor displacement, a growth in unemployment, and a deepening of inequality. On the other, there …
Gender inequality in the South African labour market
In the years following the end of Apartheid, South Africa introduced the Employment Equity Act as part of legislation designed to address entrenched racial and gender inequalities. Through section 27 of the Act, firms are required to report on the representation and remuneration of their workers by gender and population group. In this study, unprecedented access to the data generated by this reporting was used to assess gender-based occupational …
Bringing the informal economy into the National Development Plan
Gender, poverty and taxation
While gender-budgeting has grown in prominence gender activists and policymakers have paid insufficient attention to the taxation side of public finance. Drawing on a three-year eight-country study this Profile outlines why gender activists should be concerned about the revenue side of the budget, shares the conceptual approach, methodology and some of the research findings of the study, and highlights key policy issues flowing from the research.…
Informal Employment, Labour Markets and Social Protection
Local Government Support for Women in the Informal Economy in Durban, South Africa
Globalisation and Women's Work in South Africa
Caroline Skinner, Imraan Valodia, Globalisation and Women's Work in South Africa: National and Local Approaches to Economic Transformation, Agenda: Empowering Women for Gender Equity, No. 48, Globalisation: Challenging Dominant Discourses (2001), pp. 75-89
Economic Policy and Women's Informal Work in South Africa
This article examines the gender dimensions of the growth in informal and flexible work in South Africa and the government's policy response to this. It outlines the growth in informal and flexible work practices and, as illustrative examples, analyses how trade and industrial policies and labour market policies are impacting on the growth of informal and flexible work. It is argued that the South African government's trade and industrial policie…
Malaysian investment in South Africa
Economic Policy and Women's Informal Work in South Africa
This article examines the gender dimensions of the growth in informal and flexible work in South Africa and the government's policy response to this. It outlines the growth in informal and flexible work practices and, as illustrative examples, analyses how trade and industrial policies and labour market policies are impacting on the growth of informal and flexible work. It is argued that the South African government's trade and industrial policie…
Gender inequality in the South African labour market
In the years following the end of Apartheid, South Africa introduced the Employment Equity Act as part of legislation designed to address entrenched racial and gender inequalities. Through section 27 of the Act, firms are required to report on the representation and remuneration of their workers by gender and population group. In this study, unprecedented access to the data generated by this reporting was used to assess gender-based occupational …
Local Government Support for Women in the Informal Economy in Durban, South Africa
Gender, poverty and taxation
While gender-budgeting has grown in prominence gender activists and policymakers have paid insufficient attention to the taxation side of public finance. Drawing on a three-year eight-country study this Profile outlines why gender activists should be concerned about the revenue side of the budget, shares the conceptual approach, methodology and some of the research findings of the study, and highlights key policy issues flowing from the research.…
Inequality in the South African labour market
In 2019, South Africa implemented a national minimum wage (NMW) for the first time. This is an important intervention, given that the South African labour market continues to generate some of the highest levels of income and wealth inequality in the world. The minimum wage is intended as a structural intervention to transform the labour market by setting a wage floor, while highlighting larger issues that continue to reproduce inequality in the l…
Politics, Policy, and Inequality in South Africa Under Covid-19
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted and exacerbated inequalities in South Africa. The question posed in this article is whether the pandemic and its associated responses offer the opportunity for a more egalitarian society in South Africa, or a more intensively unequal society. The future is contested. On the one hand, there is the consolidation of labor displacement, a growth in unemployment, and a deepening of inequality. On the other, there …
Globalisation and Women's Work in South Africa
Caroline Skinner, Imraan Valodia, Globalisation and Women's Work in South Africa: National and Local Approaches to Economic Transformation, Agenda: Empowering Women for Gender Equity, No. 48, Globalisation: Challenging Dominant Discourses (2001), pp. 75-89
Malaysian investment in South Africa
Globalisation and Women's Work in South Africa
Caroline Skinner, Imraan Valodia, Globalisation and Women's Work in South Africa: National and Local Approaches to Economic Transformation, Agenda: Empowering Women for Gender Equity, No. 48, Globalisation: Challenging Dominant Discourses (2001), pp. 75-89
Economic Policy and Women's Informal Work in South Africa
This article examines the gender dimensions of the growth in informal and flexible work in South Africa and the government's policy response to this. It outlines the growth in informal and flexible work practices and, as illustrative examples, analyses how trade and industrial policies and labour market policies are impacting on the growth of informal and flexible work. It is argued that the South African government's trade and industrial policie…
Local Government Support for Women in the Informal Economy in Durban, South Africa
Gender, poverty and taxation
While gender-budgeting has grown in prominence gender activists and policymakers have paid insufficient attention to the taxation side of public finance. Drawing on a three-year eight-country study this Profile outlines why gender activists should be concerned about the revenue side of the budget, shares the conceptual approach, methodology and some of the research findings of the study, and highlights key policy issues flowing from the research.…
Informal Employment, Labour Markets and Social Protection
Bringing the informal economy into the National Development Plan
Gender inequality in the South African labour market
In the years following the end of Apartheid, South Africa introduced the Employment Equity Act as part of legislation designed to address entrenched racial and gender inequalities. Through section 27 of the Act, firms are required to report on the representation and remuneration of their workers by gender and population group. In this study, unprecedented access to the data generated by this reporting was used to assess gender-based occupational …
Inequality Studies from the Global South
Politics, Policy, and Inequality in South Africa Under Covid-19
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted and exacerbated inequalities in South Africa. The question posed in this article is whether the pandemic and its associated responses offer the opportunity for a more egalitarian society in South Africa, or a more intensively unequal society. The future is contested. On the one hand, there is the consolidation of labor displacement, a growth in unemployment, and a deepening of inequality. On the other, there …
The Oxford Handbook of the South African Economy
While South Africa shares some characteristics with other middle-income countries, it has a unique economic history with distinctive characteristics. South Africa is an economic powerhouse with a significant role not only at the southern African regional and continental levels, but also as a member of BRICS. However, the country faces profound developmental challenges, including the ‘triple challenges’ of poverty, inequality and unemployment. The…
Oxford Handbook of the South African Economy
Inequality in the South African labour market
In 2019, South Africa implemented a national minimum wage (NMW) for the first time. This is an important intervention, given that the South African labour market continues to generate some of the highest levels of income and wealth inequality in the world. The minimum wage is intended as a structural intervention to transform the labour market by setting a wage floor, while highlighting larger issues that continue to reproduce inequality in the l…
Price discrimination in merger review in South Africa
Mergers have the potential to give firms access to more data from which to draw insights about consumers. This may help firms to better discern which consumers are price insensitive or captive, or exhibit behavioural biases, that they can exploit by charging them higher prices or nudging them towards higher priced options. Based on recent case precedent, we believe that the transfer or sharing of data or techniques in mergers involving price-disc…
Ownership and inequality
This paper examines the link between competition policy and inequality in developing countries. We outline the theoretical linkages between competition and consumption, ownership, and distribution. We then discuss the specific contextual factors relevant to developing countries, such as concentrated product markets, labour markets characterised by high levels of unemployment, and various political and institutional factors related to competition …
Exploring production centred redistribution to address rising inequality
Policy interventions to address widening inequality have focused on fiscal-based redistributive measures as governments remain less inclined directly to intervene in shaping outcomes within the production system itself. However, low and stagnating tax rates and contractions in social spending have reduced the quantum of resources available to address inequality, curtailing the effectiveness of such policies. Clearly, the pursuit of purely redistr…
Empowerment versus (re)distribution in South Africa
Economics (14 works) · Political science (14 works) · Economic growth (9 works) · Development economics (7 works) · Economic system (6 works) · Inequality (6 works) · Labour economics (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Geography (4 works) · Politics (4 works)