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19 June 2013
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30 Nov 2012
 
 
A bold resetting of SA’s values and direction
LEADERSHIP
Writing about the challenges confronting the new Chinese leadership in a recent opinion-editorial, Michael Spence, a Nobel laureate in economics and professor of economics at New York...
 
 
23 Nov 2012
 
Thirsty resource
REAL ECONOMY: ENERGY OUTLOOK
The assessment that the US could emerge as the world’s largest oil producer before 2020 and even transition to full self-sufficiency by 2035 was the undoubted highlight of the International...
 
 
16 Nov 2012
 
Resources rethink
REAL ECONOMY: MINING INDUSTRY
Much has been said and written over the past few months about the need for a major revision in relations between government, business and labour in South Africa’s economically vital mining...
 
 
09 Nov 2012
 
Private promise?
REAL ECONOMY: INFRASTRUCTURE
Not for the first time, Transnet chairperson Mafika Mkwanazi has stressed a desire for greater private sector participation in the group’s R300-billion market demand strategy, and beyond. He...
 
 
02 Nov 2012
 
Worrying Slide
REAL ECONOMY: CURRENT ACCOUNT
South Africa’s current account deficit widened sharply over the past year and is expected to average 5.9% of gross domestic product (GDP) in 2012, up from 3.3% in 2011. In his Medium-Term Budget...
 
 
26 Oct 2012
 
New template, new tension?
REAL ECONOMY: BLACK EMPOWERMENT
There is little question that most South Africans have grown intolerant of black economic–empowerment (BEE) transactions that enrich a few “usual suspects” but do little to transform the...
 
 
19 Oct 2012
 
Poverty rate a worry despite Africa’s middle-income transition
Real Economy: Economic Outlook
As many as 38 of sub-Saharan Africa's 48 countries could be regarded as ‘middle income’ by 2025, but World Bank chief economist for Africa Shantayanan Devarajan has warned that such an...
 
 
12 Oct 2012
 
Working as a team an ‘economic necessity’
REAL ECONOMY: INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
In the context of South Africa’s prevailing industrial relations tensions, views expressed by leading US labour personality Andy Stern, who visited South Africa earlier this month, are worth...
 
 
 
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