Affordable Housing Institute: AFFILIATES
David Solomon
Academic Director,
School of Public and Development Management,
University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
Profile
David Solomon has been involved in research, education and training and policy development in the area of Urban Economics and Local Government Finance since 1980 when he began his postgraduate studies at UCT. He was awarded a Masters degree with distinctions in 1983 , has published several articles in scholarly journals and is a regular contributor to the popular press. He is currently employed at Wits University, where he has developed undergraduate and postgraduate courses in Urban Economics, Local Public Finance, Property Economics, and Property Finance. He regularly supervises postgraduate students at Honours and Masters level.
Current Interests
- Urban economics
- Public finance
- Property economics and Finance
- Local government finance
- Managerial economics
- Macroeconomic policy
- Corporate finance and investment
- Industrial economics
- Investment