4 August 2020 - Reserve Bank governor Lesetja Kganyago rightly says that, given SA’s disastrous circumstances, now is not the time to experiment with policies that have “proved a failure in economic history”. Foremost on his mind is probably the temptation to try to mint the country out of trouble. It won’t work.
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3 August 2020 - So. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has approved a $4.3 billion loan in “emergency assistance” to help the South African government address this country’s “challenging health situation and severe economic impact of the Covid-19 shock”.
31 July 2020 - South Africa and the IRR welcome each positive step with cautious optimism.
What the IMF means when it says SA needs ‘growth-enhancing structural reforms’ – IRR
29 July 2020 - Approval of South Africa’s R70 billion International Monetary Fund (IMF) Covid-19 support package is an invaluable opportunity for South Africans to demand accountability from the government on delivering on four key objectives: attracting investment, growing jobs, maintaining and expanding infrastructure and achieving real economic empowerment.
29 July 2020 - The publication of the Employment Equity Amendment Bill last week is a stark reminder of the direction of the African National Congress’s economic policy, and the drivers behind it.
29 July 2020 - Even the pessimists among us would have been stunned by the findings of the recent National Income Dynamics Study - Coronavirus Rapid Mobile Survey.
28 July 2020 - Former president Kgalema Motlanthe has been one of the more measured voices on the question of land reform.
IRR welcomes IMF putting SACP-ANC government on notice: Pursue pro-growth policies to save SA
28 July 2020 - The IRR welcomes the unambiguous message in favour of ‘growth-enhancing structural reforms’ in South Africa in the approval by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) of $4.3bn in emergency support to address the Covid-19 pandemic.
27 July 2020 - For the last 30 years the world has been in the grip of a powerful ideology known as man-made climate change. The last few months have seen the explosive growth of another ideology - that all black people are victims of universal white racism.
26 July 2020 - Is sustaining the problem of race more useful and easier to exploit than grappling with other ways of thinking that challenge the dogged orthodoxy? This is especially pertinent in the face of the persuasive, global reach of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement.
26 July 2020 - The contributions by Wandile Sihlobo and Johann Kirsten (“This is how rural areas can be developed through agriculture”, July 19) and Andile Ntingi (“After 22 years, state still has not upgraded land rights in former homelands”, July 20) present some excellent, commonsense critiques of the state of SA’s rural economies, along with pragmatic ideas to address them.
22 July 2020 - Drie weke gelede het Tito Mboweni, minister van finansies, sy aanvullende begrotingrede gelewer onder 'n refrein van oproepe vir 'n post-Covid-19 ekonomiese herstelplan. Terwyl Suid-Afrika na alle verwagting 'n hewige ekonomiese slag gaan verduur, het fiskale omsigtigheid van uiterste belang geword.