College of Business and Economics | Annual Report 2024 35 Perspectives and Models and Prof Eliane Araújo (Professor at State University of Maringa and UJ Visiting Professor), Prof Carmem Feijó (Professor at Fluminense Federal University) and Prof João Romero (Professor at Federal University of Minas Gerais) on their book titled Industrialization and Deindustrialization in Brazil: Theories, Evidence, and Policy Implications. Eight book launches have been held or lined up sofar for 2025. PhD students and PDRFs are supported to attend a wide range of external events and training courses. During 2024, we were pleased to support several of our students and PDRFs to present their research at national and international conferences in Africa, Europe, Asia and United States. Our PhD students and PDRFs also attended several other external events, for example, ‘Transforming Africa: Innovating Our Way Towards Sustainability’; ‘Industrial Policy and Strategy Review’ by the Department of Trade, Industry and Competition; ‘United Nations Youth Imbizo on the Summit of the Future’ by COSATU, ‘United Nations Gen Unlimited Launch’ by the United Nations with PwC South Africa; UK-SA International Economic Programme (IEP) - Trade Policy Research Roundtable. They attended training programmes such as the Development Leadership Dialogue training programme at School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) at the University of London and the 8th Edition of African Programme on Rethinking Development Economics (APORDE), among others. Our Masters student Nokulinda Ngwenya won the Economics Society of South Africa Founders’ Medal for the best honours research project in South Africa, which she did with us in the previous year SARChI-ID team at our Young Scholars Conference and capacity building. The seminars played a key role in building capacity in presentation, writing and research skills, and encouraging active research dialogue among students, PDRFs and emerging researchers. We initiated our SARChI-ID Book Launch Series in 2024. Through this series we host regular launches of significant new books related to our fields of research. Among the 2024 presenters were Prof Wim Naude (UJ Distinguished Visiting Professor) on a book titled Artificial Intelligence: Economic
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