Seeraj Mohamed

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Mohamed is the director of the Corporate Strategy and Industrial Development Research Programme in the School of Economic and Business Sciences at the University of the Witwatersrand – seeraj.mohamed@wits.ac.za |
DTI is building capacity for industrial development
25th February 2011 The Corporate Strategy and Industrial Development Research Programme (CSID) - the University of the Witwatersrand's (Wits') economics policy... →
Govts must carefully manage global integration in today’s uncertain world
21st January 2011 We enter 2011 with much global economic uncertainty. South Africans should consider the country's economic policies and activities within the... →
2011 – another year of global economic uncertainty
14th January 2011 The year 2010 sped past at a high speed. We still have not recovered from the global financial and economic crises and the sovereign debt crises... →
Straight talk on the exchange rate debate
10th December 2010 We have had much discussion about the exchange rate over the past few years. This discussion has had trade unions and certain manufacturers on one... →
Capitalism is different from free market libertarianism
19th November 2010 There is a view that people should be free to do whatever they want with their wealth. In fact, most people – rich and poor – would balk at the... →
Forget 7% yearly growth; just support the right kind of growth
5th November 2010 There is an idea from government that the South African economy should grow at 7% a year. There seems to be a belief that growing that fast will... →
Currency wars and other myths
29th October 2010 Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan recently repeated the sensationalist fears promoted in the mainstream business media about the possibility of... →
Crisis in Greece provides important lessons
8th October 2010 The there are many internal problems in Greece that contributed to the country’s relatively high level of debt, which led the sovereign debt crisis. →
Why another amnesty for illegal capital flight?
17th September 2010 The South African Reserve Bank (SARB) is proposing a second amnesty for South African residents guilty of illegal capital flight. The first amnesty... →
Inequality and industry
3rd September 2010 South Africa ranks among the top most unequal societies in the world. We know that our colonial and apartheid past of racial oppression and... →