Telephone:+27 31 260 7559 Email Campus: Pietermaritzburg Building & Room: New Arts Building – 333, 3rd Floor
Biography
Dharma Mahadea is Professor in discipline of Economics focusing in mainstream Economics and Development Economics. Research interests lie in Entrepreneurship, SMMEs, Economics of happiness, unemployment and poverty.
Academic Qualifications:
BA (Hons) Econs (Lanchester)
MBA (Bradford), UK
PhD (UDW)
Undergraduate courses currently teaching:
Development Economics
Entrepreneurship
Micro and Macroeconomics at BBA level
Postgraduate courses
Macroeconomics
Research Interests
Entrepreneurship
SMMEs
Economics of happiness
Unemployment and poverty
Recent Publications
Human Capital Elements and Performance of Small-scale Manufacturing in Tanzania, International Journal of Education Economics and Development, Vol 3, No 2, 2012, pp. 164-178.
Work Without Workers: What happened to Employment in South Africa?, in Jobs, Jobs, Job. Free Market Foundation, pp.184-212, Nov. 2011
(2 articles of mine will be published in Dec 2012; one in the Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship and the other in Skills and Work, Vol 5),– cannot insert them until having sight that they have been published).
Editorial Boards:
Was a member of the Editorial Board of South African Journal for Economics, 2002-09.
