Real Economy
Gordhan keeps inflow-tax power dry 
By: Terence Creamer 5th November 2010 Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan used the Medium Term Budget Policy Statement (MTBPS), released last Wednesday, to outline some of the fiscal and... →
Electricity plan clings to pragmatism over aspiration
By: Terence Creamer 22nd October 2010 The draft second integrated resource plan, or IRP2010, is unlikely to receive universal acclaim and even its drafters will acknowledge that errs... →
Generation plan in itself inadequate to galvanise power investments
By: Terence Creamer 8th October 2010 Much attention is being given to the second version of the integrated resources plan, or IRP 2010, which government still insists will be... →
Yen developments may hold lessons as SA considers rand action
By: Terence Creamer 1st October 2010 It will be interesting for advocates and opponents of calls for aggressive intervention to weaken the rand to monitor developments surrounding the... →
SA’s competitiveness fall reflects relative strength of other emerging economies
By: Terence Creamer 24th September 2010 South Africa slipped to 54th position from 45th in the World Economic Forum’s (WEF’s) latest Global Competitiveness Index, but remained the highest... →
Global firms rank SA as a priority global investment destination
By: Terence Creamer 17th September 2010 South Africa ranks nineteenth in a league table of "top priority host economies" for foreign direct investment (FDI), which was released on Monday... →
New public-funded research rules to have far-reaching implications
By: Terence Creamer 3rd September 2010 The introduction of the Intellectual Property Rights from Publicly Financed Research and Development Act will have implications for South African... →
Africa will have to factor in new bank curbs as $93bn/y is sought for infrastructure
By: Terence Creamer 27th August 2010 The regulatory response to the recent global financial crisis may create new constraints for the involvement of commercial banks in African and... →
Rising intra-emerging market trade and investment creating new momentum
By: Bloomberg 13th August 2010 The high-speed rail link China Railway Construction Corporation is building in Saudi Arabia doesn’t just connect the holy cities of Mecca and... →
SA’s youth unemployment needs serious attention
By: Terence Creamer 6th August 2010 Over the past month or so, South Africa has featured in a number of influential reports released by such significant organisations as the World... →
