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South Africa needs to industrialise to reach NDP targets

31 July 2014

Without adequate policy frameworks and planning aimed at adapting the South African economy from ‘consumption based’ to ‘industrialised’, the country will continue on this path of slower growth – rather than improving inclusive economic growth towards the targets laid out in the National Development Plan (NDP) for 2030.

Could Europe’s economic recovery be good news for SA?

30 July 2014

New research from Grant Thornton reveals that Europe is recovering from economic problems caused by the sovereign debt crisis. This turnaround will hopefully stimulate increased trade with South Africa.

Global economy showing slow growth, but SA lacks growth driver

29 July 2014

While global economic growth is slow, but expecting improvements through to 2015, the South African economy is caught in a low-level stagflationary bind. This is according to Rian le Roux, Chief Economist at Old Mutual Investment Group, who says that meaningful policy reforms are necessary to raise both the growth and employment potential and that partial reforms are unlikely to drag SA out of the low growth and employment trap.

SARB MPC escapes the ‘stagflationary’ vice-grip by appeasing both sides of the equation

18 July 2014

SA GDP growth is under severe downward pressure due to various well known factors. The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) is very sensitive to this and thus did everything they could not to hike rates. By only hiking 0.25% they hope not to hamper economic growth.

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