Dr Muna Shifa
University of Cape Town
Muna Shifa is a Senior Research Officer in the Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit in the School of Economics, University of Cape Town. She holds an MCom and a PhD degree in Economics from the University of Cape Town and a BSc degree in Statistics from Addis Ababa University. Her research focuses on land tenure systems and rural livelihoods, urbanisation and development, social cohesion and inequality, and the analysis of poverty and inequality. She teaches postgraduate courses on complex surveys and measuring poverty and inequality at the School of Economics.