PUBLICATIONS

JOURNAL ARTICLES

Shifa, M., & Leibbrandt, M. (2022). Spatial Inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa. Forthcoming in African Geographical Review.

Shifa, M., David, A., & Leibbrandt, M. (2021). Spatial inequality through the prism of a pandemic: Covid-19 in South Africa. Scientific African, 13, e00949.

Shifa, M., & Leibbrandt, M. (2018). Relative economic position and subjective well-being in a poor society: Does relative position indicator matter? Social Indicators Research, 139(2), 611-630.

Shifa, M., & Leibbrandt, M. (2017). Urban poverty and inequality in Kenya. In Urban Forum, 28( 4), 363-385. Springer Netherlands.

Shifa, M. (2016). Determinants of land and labour market participation decisions in rural Ethiopia. Journal of African Development, 18(2), 73-90.

Working papers

Shifa, M., & Ranchhod ,V.(2019). Handbook on Inequality Measurement for Country Studies. ACEIR Publications. University of Cape Town.

David, A., Guilbert, N., Hino, H., Leibbrandt, M., Potgieter, E., & Shifa, M. (2018). Social cohesion and inequality in South Africa. Saldru Working paper. University of Cape Town.

Shifa, M., & Leibbrandt, M. (2017). Profiling multidimensional poverty and inequality in Kenya and Zambia at sub-national levels. Saldru Working paper(No. 209). University of Cape Town.

Shifa, M., Leibbrandt, M., & Wittenberg, M. (2015). Does tenure insecurity explain the variations in land-related investment decisions in rural Ethiopia? Saldru Working paper. University of Cape Town.

BOOK CHAPTERS

Shifa, M., & Borel-Saladin, J. (2018). African urbanisation and poverty. In J.Battersby & V. Watson (Eds.), Urban food systems governance and poverty in African cities (pp. 29-41). Routledge.

Borel-Saladin, J., Shifa, M., & Donald, A. (2018). Understanding and addressing poverty, labour force, and urbanisation data gaps in sub-Saharan Africa. In J.Battersby & V. Watson (Eds.), Urban food systems governance and poverty in African cities (pp. 68-79). Routledge.

Hino, H., Leibbrandt, M., Machema, R., Shifa, M., & Soudien, C. (2019). Identity, inequality and social contestation in the Post-Apartheid South Africa. In J. Lonsdale, F. Stewart, A. Langer & H. Hino (Eds.), From Divided Pasts to Cohesive Futures: Interdisciplinary Reflections on Africa. Cambridge University Press.

WORKS IN PROGRESS

Shifa, M., Gordon, D., Leibbrandt, M., & Zhang, M. (2022). Socioeconomic-related inequalities in COVID-19 vulnerability in South Africa. Submitted to International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.

Shifa, M. (2022). Gender, ethnicity, place, and poverty: intersectional inequality in educational outcomes in Ethiopia.

Shifa, M. & Andres Diaz, F. (2022). The matches and mismatches between policies addressing horizontal inequalities and political tensions in Ethiopia.

Shifa, M. (2022). Land titling, tenure arrangements, and agricultural investments in rural Ethiopia.

Leibbrandt, M., Shifa, M., & Machemedze, T. (2022). Profiling Multidimensional Climate-related Social Vulnerability in South Africa.