Why this research matters South Africa’s economy, despite its extensive mineral wealth, has not achieved the growth many reasonably anticipated. Instead, it has suffered significant industrial decline, jeopardising...
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Dutch Disease and what to do about it in South Africa
Late last year, a colleague and I published a peer-reviewed journal article trying to identify whether southern Africa was afflicted by “premature deindustrialisation”. Harvard economist Dani Rodrik (2016) identified...
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