Austerity And A Permanent Income Shock

This brief distinguishes between a policy of austerity and the fact of a permanent decline in per capita income, arguing that South Africa should adapt to a ...

Budget Challenges I: The Economic Environment

This is the first of three briefs on the challenges to be faced in the presentation of the 2019 Budget on 20 February. It deals with the global and local ...

Budget Challenges II: Public Debt

This is the second of three briefs on the challenges to be faced in the presentation of the 2019 Budget on 20 February. The first brief dealt with the ...

Budget Challenges III: Revenue And Expenditure

This is the third of three briefs on the challenges to be faced in the presentation of the 2019 Budget on 20 February. It deals with revenue and expenditure. ...

This Brief summarises some of the aspects of the Business Licensing Bill and considers what it could mean for business. It showcases State and Private Sector ...

The proposed Business Licensing Bill, which has been lambasted by critics as draconian and impossible to implement, will be significantly redrafted to take ...

This Brief suggests methods that may be adopted in an effort get through the hard times ahead.

Can we start the long haul now?

We live in a vertiginous age, in a Dadaesque social and political world. Can the ground be prepared for economic recovery in this politically unstable ...

Cape Town Round Table: 6 February 2018 - The Budget, Growth And Debt

This brief, the first of two, summarizes the addresses to the Cape Town Round Table. The companion brief is an analysis of themes discussed at the Round Table.

Cape Town Round Table: 6 February 2018 - The Budget, Growth & Debt - Beyond The Political Noise: Structural Change Is Urgently Needed

The Helen Suzman Foundation’s Round Table took place surrounded by banners advertising a State of the Nation Address on 8 February that was not delivered. ...