Mail & Guardian | How to get our idling factories humming and creating jobs again
A series of recent government policy announcements contain a welcome sense of urgency to turn around the economy and create much-needed jobs. However, there is an unwelcome overlooking of existing capacity of the South African economy, the part that needs a minor policy adjustment. A brief review of the announcements nonetheless points to an improvement…
Sunday Times | Private sector dare not fail with this opportunity
Now that private companies have a foothold in running the freight rail network, they need to show they can do so more economically and efficiently than Transnet was doing In 2023, Harvard University’s Growth Lab — a unit led by Ricardo Hausmann that studies factors constraining or enabling economic growth — published a report on…
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