GGA questions whether the government has good grounds on which to determine trophy hunting quotas or promote trophy hunting as a conservation tool, especially on economic grounds.
Dr Ross Harvey
Dr Ross Harvey is a natural resource economist and policy analyst, and he has been dealing with governance issues in various forms across this sector since 2007. He has a PhD in economics from the University of Cape Town, and his thesis research focused on the political economy of oil and institutional development in Angola and Nigeria. While completing his PhD, Ross worked as a senior researcher on extractive industries and wildlife governance at the South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA), and in May 2019 became an independent conservation consultant. Ross’s task at GGA is to establish a non-renewable natural resources project (extractive industries) to ensure that the industry becomes genuinely sustainable and contributes to Africa achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Ross was appointed Director of Research and Programmes at GGA in May 2020.
Russia’s aggression in Europe is highly destructive for African nations
Russia’s aggression in Europe is highly destructive for African nations
A ‘good news’ budget still needs a sustainable governance strategy
Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana’s maiden budget speech is being billed as good news. Overall tax revenue is estimated at R210 billion more than expected. In November last year, Godongwana only expected that amount to be R100 billion. A R210 billion windfall is...
Reading between the SONA lines
As the president rightly acknowledged, the fact that the State of the Nation (SONA 2022) did not unfold in parliament is a useful analogy for the fact that our country is on fire, too often quite literally. Though perhaps not as acutely as it was in the July 2021...
Shell exploration: Managing natural resource governance and environmental concerns
The 26th Conference of the Parties (COP26) has recently concluded in Glasgow. That there was sunshine in that part of the world was perhaps all the evidence one needs that climate change is real. Humour aside, it is difficult to overstate the fact that a climate...
Post COP26: The divestment opportunity
Why abandoning fossil fuel investments is the optimal catalyst for setting Africa on the right development trajectory Climate change is perhaps the ultimate ‘wicked problem’. Or, for economists, it’s the ultimate collective action problem, as demonstrated by the...
Dr Ross Harvey unpacks what should be top of Africa’s agenda at COP26
On Wednesday 27 October 2021, GGA convened a live webinar, hosted by the Mail & Guardian, bringing together a range of climate change experts. The objective of the discussion was to identify what should be at the top of Africa’s agenda as the African Group of...
Governance matters more than ever for South Africa
Tragic events have recently befallen South Africa - scenes that most of us would like to forget but cannot unsee. Like the riots that broke out in the UK 10 years ago, or the storming of the US Capitol in support of Trump, the orchestrated looting and violence of July...
Zuma’s prison sentence is good news for governance
South Africa’s Constitutional Court decision to sentence former president Jacob Zuma to 15 months in prison for contempt of court is momentous. Amid the incompetence, chaos and corruption that dominates media headlines, the move is a sorely needed light in the...
Good governance and the rule of law matter now more than ever for South Africa
South African politics is certainly more intriguing than fiction. Behind the drama, though, is the reality that twenty-seven years into our fragile democracy we are at a critical juncture. Critical junctures are major events that disrupt existing political and...
Dr Ross Harvey
Dr Ross Harvey is a natural resource economist and policy analyst, and he has been dealing with governance issues in various forms across this sector since 2007. He has a PhD in economics from the University of Cape Town, and his thesis research focused on the political economy of oil and institutional development in Angola and Nigeria. While completing his PhD, Ross worked as a senior researcher on extractive industries and wildlife governance at the South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA), and in May 2019 became an independent conservation consultant. Ross’s task at GGA is to establish a non-renewable natural resources project (extractive industries) to ensure that the industry becomes genuinely sustainable and contributes to Africa achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Ross was appointed Director of Research and Programmes at GGA in May 2020.
Trophy hunting in SA is not economically justified
GGA questions whether the government has good grounds on which to determine trophy hunting quotas or promote trophy hunting as a conservation tool, especially on economic grounds.
Russia’s aggression in Europe is highly destructive for African nations
Russia’s aggression in Europe is highly destructive for African nations
A ‘good news’ budget still needs a sustainable governance strategy
Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana’s maiden budget speech is being billed as good news. Overall tax revenue is estimated at R210 billion more than expected. In November last year, Godongwana only expected that amount to be R100 billion. A R210 billion windfall is...
Reading between the SONA lines
As the president rightly acknowledged, the fact that the State of the Nation (SONA 2022) did not unfold in parliament is a useful analogy for the fact that our country is on fire, too often quite literally. Though perhaps not as acutely as it was in the July 2021...
Shell exploration: Managing natural resource governance and environmental concerns
The 26th Conference of the Parties (COP26) has recently concluded in Glasgow. That there was sunshine in that part of the world was perhaps all the evidence one needs that climate change is real. Humour aside, it is difficult to overstate the fact that a climate...
Post COP26: The divestment opportunity
Why abandoning fossil fuel investments is the optimal catalyst for setting Africa on the right development trajectory Climate change is perhaps the ultimate ‘wicked problem’. Or, for economists, it’s the ultimate collective action problem, as demonstrated by the...
Dr Ross Harvey unpacks what should be top of Africa’s agenda at COP26
On Wednesday 27 October 2021, GGA convened a live webinar, hosted by the Mail & Guardian, bringing together a range of climate change experts. The objective of the discussion was to identify what should be at the top of Africa’s agenda as the African Group of...
Governance matters more than ever for South Africa
Tragic events have recently befallen South Africa - scenes that most of us would like to forget but cannot unsee. Like the riots that broke out in the UK 10 years ago, or the storming of the US Capitol in support of Trump, the orchestrated looting and violence of July...
Zuma’s prison sentence is good news for governance
South Africa’s Constitutional Court decision to sentence former president Jacob Zuma to 15 months in prison for contempt of court is momentous. Amid the incompetence, chaos and corruption that dominates media headlines, the move is a sorely needed light in the...
Good governance and the rule of law matter now more than ever for South Africa
South African politics is certainly more intriguing than fiction. Behind the drama, though, is the reality that twenty-seven years into our fragile democracy we are at a critical juncture. Critical junctures are major events that disrupt existing political and...