The IRR's Blueprint for Growth

Feb 05, 2025
The IRR's Blueprint for Growth: Arming SA's Pro-Growth Forces
Author: Talya
Published: 09 Feb 2026
This paper urges that economic growth be placed front and centre of public policy in South Africa. It provides evidence for the benefits of economic growth, explains why South Africa has failed to achieve it, and describes what needs to change for the South African economy to grow rapidly.
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The IRR’s Blueprint for Growth: Cut VAT & BEE Premiums
Author: Karel
Published: 18 Feb 2026
This report summarises evidence and arguments for two simple ideas: to cut VAT and to cut BEE premiums in public procurement to R0. This will save South African consumers R100 billion, to the benefit of poor people especially.
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The IRR's Blueprint for Growth: Breaking the BEE Barrier to Growth
Author: Talya
Published: 19 Oct 2026
This paper examines how BEE’s three core pillars have held back investment, growth and job creation. The paper then shows how their benefits have flowed to a small, politically connected elite. Finally, it sets out the IRR’s answer, Economic Empowerment for the Disadvantaged (EED), a non-racial alternative that rewards businesses for investment and job creation, and extends to South Africans vouchers for the schooling, housing and healthcare of their choice.
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The IRR’s Blueprint for Growth: Reinforcing South Africa's Growth through Infrastructure
Author: Karel
Published: 28 Jul 2026
South Africa’s problem isn’t infrastructure; it is economic growth. Even so, the outcome is a country with infrastructure falling apart. In the latest paper in the Blueprint for Growth series, the IRR's Anlu Keeve identifies the aspects of South Africa's infrastructure that demand immediate attention and recommends key policy reforms.
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The IRR’s Blueprint for Growth: Generating Jobs and Skills
Author: Karel
Published: 18 Aug 2026
To increase new jobs from their present levels to the necessary 900,000 a year, the GNU must pinpoint the main barriers to job creation and set about removing them with singular determination.
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The IRR’s Blueprint for Growth: "Open(ing) for business": South Africa's investment malaise and how to escape it
Author: Karel
Published: 14 Oct 2025
South Africa has for decades been a chronic investment underperformer. This is the foundation of its inadequate economic performance, explaining the country’s anaemic economic growth and its stubbornly elevated unemployment numbers. The report shows how this situation has been allowed to develop, the choices that have sustained it – and how South Africa can turn it around.
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