Serge Basingene Hadisi

Serge is an Economist with extensive research and publications on sustainable economic development focusing on social development in sub-Saharan Africa. He also specialises in cross-disciplinary analysis on economic growth, unemployment, poverty and inequality. His research interests are in economic growth, development economics, human development, sustainable development, and political economy analysis. Serge believes that deeper regional integration is integration for sustainable economic development in the SADC region. Serge’s work has been supported through extensive training such as the African Programme on Rethinking Development Economics (APORDE) by the South African Department of Trade, Industry and Competition, and the UCT Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit Summer School. Serge received his B.Com. (Hon.) in Business Administration and Economic Sciences from Université Protestante au Congo and his M.A. in Economics from Rhodes University.

Serge has also published some work through conference presentations and in peer-reviewed journals. See some of his most recent works below:

• Hadisi, S. & Snowball, J. 2017. ‘Employment in the Cultural and Creative Industries in South Africa’, South African Journal of Economics, Vol. 84, Issue 4. Available At: https://2017.essa.org.za/.
• Hadisi, S. & Fryer, D. 2016. Extractive Industries Versus Human Development? Towards Sustainable Economic Development in Sub-Saharan Africa, TIPS: Pretoria. Available At: https://www.tips.org.za/.