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Zim economist becomes the youngest PhD graduate at Africa's top ranked varsity
14 Jan 2013 at 08:04hrs | Views
A Zimbabwean economist Fidelis Hove has become the youngest PhD graduate at the University of Cape Town (UCT), Africa's top ranked university.
Hove finished his PhD at the age of 26 making him the youngest graduate of the PhD class of 2012. He currently works as a development consultant for Oxford Policy Management, a top tier international development consultancy.
Dr Hove joined OPM's South Africa office as an assistant consultant in August 2010. Prior to joining OPM, Fidelis taught undergraduate micro- and macro-economics courses at the University of Cape Town. He has also worked with the Southern Africa Labour Research Unit (SALDRU), where he carried out qualitative and quantitative research and analysis of survey data and was involved in the KwaZulu Natal Income Dynamics Survey panels.
His focus was on poverty, inequality and unemployment and one of the projects he worked on with SALDRU involved using survey data to look at poverty transitions in Vietnam and South Africa.
Currently, Fidelis' interests include the use of survey data in poverty studies, the structure of informal-sector employment, social-protection issues and the economic assessments of extractive industry projects.
In addition to implementing surveys in South Africa and Lesotho, Fidelis has worked in Mozambique and South Africa on projects that developed social benefits costing models based on household (micro) data. Fidelis has been involved in institutional reform and capacity building exercises in many SADC countries and is currently part of a team giving technical support in the design, development and testing of core modules of operation of the Mozambique's Basic Social Security Programmes to be integrated to a Management Information System.
Hove finished his PhD at the age of 26 making him the youngest graduate of the PhD class of 2012. He currently works as a development consultant for Oxford Policy Management, a top tier international development consultancy.
Dr Hove joined OPM's South Africa office as an assistant consultant in August 2010. Prior to joining OPM, Fidelis taught undergraduate micro- and macro-economics courses at the University of Cape Town. He has also worked with the Southern Africa Labour Research Unit (SALDRU), where he carried out qualitative and quantitative research and analysis of survey data and was involved in the KwaZulu Natal Income Dynamics Survey panels.
Currently, Fidelis' interests include the use of survey data in poverty studies, the structure of informal-sector employment, social-protection issues and the economic assessments of extractive industry projects.
In addition to implementing surveys in South Africa and Lesotho, Fidelis has worked in Mozambique and South Africa on projects that developed social benefits costing models based on household (micro) data. Fidelis has been involved in institutional reform and capacity building exercises in many SADC countries and is currently part of a team giving technical support in the design, development and testing of core modules of operation of the Mozambique's Basic Social Security Programmes to be integrated to a Management Information System.
Source - online
