AIPA is an independent, non-profit making economic research entity incorporated in October 1992 under South African Company’s Act Section 21. The Institute’s objective is to undertake high-level, non-partisan and interdisciplinary research on economic policy analysis and structural adjustment and to offer thoroughly examined options to policy-makers and other stakeholders dealing with economic, business related and social issues in African countries.

While in the medium to long-term AIPA will increasingly play a regional role, the immediate imperative is to address the pressing issues surrounding South Africa’s economic transition, in particular urgent socio-economic issues relating to policy reform, growth with equity, HIV/AIDS, the labour market, skills development, infrastructure, privatisation and promotion of productivity and efficiency in a competitive environment of increasing globalisation of markets.