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26 Nov 2010
 
 
SA’s politically biased Africa agenda in urgent need of revision
REAL ECONOMY: ECONOMIC RELATIONS
It’s ironic, but business’ grasp of the importance of the rest of Africa to South Africa’s growth fortunes seems to be firmer under the Presidency of the relatively parochial Jacob Zuma than...
 
 
05 Nov 2010
 
Gordhan keeps inflow-tax power dry
REAL ECONOMY: ECONOMIC POLICY
Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan used the Medium Term Budget Policy Statement (MTBPS), released last Wednesday, to outline some of the fiscal and monetary measures that will be deployed by the South...
 
 
22 Oct 2010
 
Electricity plan clings to pragmatism over aspiration
REAL ECONOMY: ELECTRICITY PLAN
The draft second integrated resource plan, or IRP2010, is unlikely to receive universal acclaim and even its drafters will acknowledge that errs far more on the side of pragmatism than on...
 
 
08 Oct 2010
 
Generation plan in itself inadequate to galvanise power investments
REAL ECONOMY: ENERGY POLICY
Much attention is being given to the second version of the integrated resources plan, or IRP 2010, which government still insists will be promulgated during November, despite delays to the public...
 
 
01 Oct 2010
 
Yen developments may hold lessons as SA considers rand action
REAL ECONOMY: CURRENCY INTERVENTION
It will be interesting for advocates and opponents of calls for aggressive intervention to weaken the rand to monitor developments surrounding the Japanese yen over the coming weeks and months....
 
 
24 Sep 2010
 
SA’s competitiveness fall reflects relative strength of other emerging economies
Real Economy: Competitiveness Index
South Africa slipped to 54th position from 45th in the World Economic Forum’s (WEF’s) latest Global Competitiveness Index, but remained the highest ranked country in sub-Saharan Africa -...
 
 
17 Sep 2010
 
Global firms rank SA as a priority global investment destination
REAL ECONOMY: GLOBAL VIEW
South Africa ranks nineteenth in a league table of "top priority host economies" for foreign direct investment (FDI), which was released on Monday as part of the latest ‘World Investment...
 
 
03 Sep 2010
 
New public-funded research rules to have far-reaching implications
REAL ECONOMY: RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT
The introduction of the Intellectual Property Rights from Publicly Financed Research and Development Act will have implications for South African companies that contribute towards research projects...
 
 
 
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