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19 May 2013
Opinion
 
 
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24 Jul 2009
 
 
Learning to diversify 
for development
GLOBAL ACCOUNT
I recently had the opportunity to attend the African Task Force meetings organised by economics Nobel Prize laureate Professor Joseph Stiglitz’s Institute for Policy Dialogue (IPD). The meetings...
 
 
10 Jul 2009
 
Financial system 
should be reformed
GLOBAL ACCOUNT
I wrote in a recent article in this column that the best investment by US financiers was the billions of dollars they used for lobbying the US government over the past decade or more.
 
 
03 Jul 2009
 
Huge effort required 
to get South African economy out of the rut
GLOBAL ACCOUNT
A few months ago, there was a debate in the media about whether the South African economy would decline into recession.
 
 
12 Jun 2009
 
There is no recovery yet
Global Account
Many newspaper reports give us false hope that the global economic crisis has started to abate. They argue that the US financial system is recovering. There was a stock market rally during May...
 
 
15 May 2009
 
The new bubble
GLOBAL ACCOUNT
Some economists accuse developed countries of telling developing countries to “do as I say, not as I do”.
 
 
24 Apr 2009
 
Targeted support needed during the crisis
GLOBAL ACCOUNT
Finance Minister Trevor Manuel wrote a very interesting article in Business Day on April 8, giving his views on bail-outs, titled ‘Singling out firms for help is unnecessary and unwise’.
 
 
17 Apr 2009
 
Deregulation, culture and crisis
GLOBAL ACCOUNT
It is now generally agreed that liberalisation and inadequate regulation of finance is to blame for the global financial crisis. The inadequate liberalisation of the financial sector allowed...
 
 
03 Apr 2009
 
Global recovery and national interests
GLOBAL ACCOUNT
There is talk about fixing the global economy. The G20 meeting in London in early April is one indication that countries may not exactly agree on specific actions but that they say they must work...
 
 
 
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