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Notes and commentary from Andrew Charman and Leif Petersen on township economies, research in progress and policy debates.
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Cheap smokes, expensive lesson: why taxing cigarettes harder is not working
First in a three-part series on what we found inside South Africa’s spaza shops When we ran our national spaza shop study in 2017 and 2018, we bought cigarettes. Not for research atmosphere, but because price is evidence. Our researchers made loose-draw purchases at 577…
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The Captured City is catching the train
Why Wynberg and the inner city are showing us Cape Town’s future, and why Constantia isn’t (yet) Leif Petersen and Andrew Charman In 2010 we bought a property on a Mixed Use zoned street in central Wynberg and made it our office. That same year…