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Key labour themes for 2017

03 November 2016

With South Africa’s economy under significant pressure as it battles to eke out a mere 1% growth, labour disputes and retrenchments are on the rise.

Governments everywhere facing balancing act in age related spending

01 November 2016

Governments everywhere face a difficult balancing act between curbing public spending and providing adequate benefits to their increasingly large elderly populations.

MTBPS 2016: The different shades of junk

27 October 2016

The 2016 Medium Term Budget Policy Statement (MTBPS) illustrates the South African National Treasury’s intent to continue following a path of fiscal consolidation as it aims to stabilise government’s debt ratio and ensure long-term fiscal sustainability.

MTBPS 2016: Additional taxes and spending cuts used to negate weaker growth impact on fiscus

27 October 2016

In its 2016 Medium-Term Budget Policy Statement (MTBPS), South Africa’s National Treasury unsurprisingly revised its estimates of real GDP growth lower to around 1.5% p.a. between the current fiscal year (FY2016/17) and FY2018/19, from 1.9% projected at the tabling of the February 2016 National Budget (see chart 1).

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