Lawrence Edwards
Lawrence Edwards is a Professor in the School of Economics, University of Cape Town, a Research Associate at the South African Labour and Development Research Unit (SALDRU), Policy Research on International Services and Manufacturing (PRISM) and a Research Fellow at IZA.
Professor Edwards has extensive research experience on the implications of trade reform and international competition on employment, wages and international trade in Africa and South Africa in particular. He has published in World Development, Journal of International Development, Economics of Transition, Harvard Business Review and the South African Journal of Economics. He has consulted widely on trade policy issues for the World Bank, the African Development Bank, the International Growth Centre, the OECD and the Southern African Development Community Secretariat and various governments in Africa, including South Africa, Swaziland, Lesotho and Zambia.
