Risk Alert | Can IMF funding lead to policy reform?
27 July 2020 − This week, Dr Frans Cronje discusses the policy and ideological significance of soon-to-be-announced IMF funding for South Africa in the midst of the country’s growing fiscal crisis and governance failures. Risk Alert | Can IMF funding lead to policy reform?
Risk Alert | SA jobs bloodbath and four risks for the global economy
20 July 2020 - This week, Dr Frans Cronje discusses the results of a recent survey which revealed that an estimated 3 million jobs may have been lost as a consequence of the lockdown. Risk Alert | SA jobs bloodbath and four risks for the global economy
Risk Alert | ANC policy papers show little sign of reform
13 July 2020 - This week, Dr Frans Cronje highlights three policy papers which entered the public domain last week from within the government and the ANC. Neither paper puts forward anything by way of substantive structural reform, he argues. Risk Alert | ANC policy papers show little sign of reform
Risk Alert | SA GDP contracts for third consecutive quarter… and counting
6 July 2020 - This week, CRA analyst Bheki Mahlobo discusses South Africa’s chronically underperforming economy. Risk Alert | SA GDP contracts for third consecutive quarter… and counting
Risk Alert | Next steps for SA: will fiscal pressure breed reform?
29 June 2020 - This week, Dr Frans Cronje, argues that fears of a “second wave” of Covid-19 infections in America are misplaced, but that such fears might nevertheless rattle financial markets.
Risk Alert | Debt and deficits likely to balloon in Tito's Emergency Budget
22 June 2020 - Dr Frans Cronje discusses this week’s emergency budget, which will likely reveal that economic growth will contract by at least -7% for 2020. Risk Alert | Debt and deficits likely to balloon in Tito's Emergency Budget