The IRR’s Blueprint for Growth: "Open(ing) for business": South Africa's investment malaise and how to escape it
Oct 14, 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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