Rashad Cassim

Rashad Cassim joined Statistics South Africa as head and deputy director general: economic statistics in 2006. For the three years previous to taking up this position, Cassim had been head of the School of Economics and Business Sciences at the University of the Witwatersrand.

Before he joined Wits, Cassim was the executive director of TIPS. He still serves as a member on the TIPS Board of Directors and Members. Previously he was Director of the Trade Policy Monitoring Project at the University of Cape Town, as well as a researcher in the Development Policy Research Unit (DPRU) at UCT, where he was co-editor of a quarterly bulletin, the Trade Monitor.

His main research interests are in the area of Regional Economic Integration, South Africa and the World Trade Organisation, and general trade policy issues. Cassim holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Cape Town.

Published Peer-reviewed Book Chapters and Journal Articles

Cassim R, (2006) Reflections on South Africa's First Wave of Economic Reforms, in Padayachee (ed), The Development Decade: Economic and Social Change in South Affrica, 1994-2004, HSRC Press, Cape Town.
Cassim, R & Zarenda, H. (2004) South Africa's Trade Policy Paradigm Evolution or Involution in Sidiropoulos E (ed), South Africa's Foreign Policy -1994-2004, SAIIA, Wits University.
The Challenge of Growth, Welfare and Poverty in South Africa since Democracy: An Exploratory Review of Selected Issues, Development Southern Africa, Vol 21, No 1, March 2004 (with Haroon Bhorat).
Cassim, R. (2003), The Pace, Nature and Impact of Trade Policy in South Africa in the 1990s, South African Journal of Economic History, September, Volume 18, Nos 1 and 2.
Competitiveness, International trade and Finance in a minerals-rich economy: The Case of South Africa, with Trevor Bell and Greg Farrell in Finance and Competitiveness in Developing Countries Edited by Jose Maria Fanelli and Rohinton Medhora (Routledge, London), 2002
Co-editor, Special Issue, Investment in South Africa: Regulatory and Competition Issues: Development Southern Africa, Volume 17, Number 3, September 2000
Some Theoretical Reflections on Economic Integration in Southern Africa, co-authored with Harry Zarenda, article on the book Long-term Transitional Issues and Economic Development in South Africa by E Elbadawi and T Hartzenberg (ed), MacMillan University Press. 1997.
'Le developpement industriel au sein de la SADC' with Marina J Mayer in Afrique Comtemporaine Numero special 4, 1997.
Transition in Central and Eastern Europe - Implications for EU-LDC Relations', discussion comments on U Koesters paper entitled 'EU and Agricultural Policy towards Central and Eastern Europe, their Impact on Developing Countries', Kluwar Academic Publishers, 1996.
European Economic Integration and Eastern Europe: Lessons and Implications for Southern Africa' article in the book 'The Single European Market and its Implications on Africa', Minerva Press, London, 1996.

Books/Monographs

The State of Trade Policy in South Africa ( with Dirk van Seventer and Donald Oynango), TIPS, Monograph, 2003.
The Economics of Small and Medium Enterprises in South Africa with Al Berry et al, TIPS monograph, 2003.
Review of the South African Economy (with Lucia Wegner), OEDC, African Outlook, Paris, 2002.
Co-author (J Fedderke, Dirk Van Seventer, Martine Marrioti) Determinants of Investment Behaviour in SA, TIPS Monograph, 2002.
Trade and the Environment in South Africa, co-authored with Frimpong M, Gobblath M and Visser M, Published by the Institute of Sustainable Development, Canada, Winnipeg, 1999.