As practising economists, we usually spend a substantial amount of time looking at the world through data generated by official government institutions, private sector businesses and households.
The combination of economic and political developments over the past twelve months in SA has generated particular interest in the outlook for the economy in 2020.
With local government being the coal face of all human development activities, the perilous state of most of our municipalities around the country is a window into the ill-health of our society, which demands urgent attention and intervention, if we are ever going to achieve our developmental objectives as a people.
The challenge of how we ll feed the exploding world population in the future in a sustainable, cost-effective and environmentally friendly way is seeding an agricultural revolution. Welcome to farming of the future : a hi-tech, capital-intensive system of growing food sustainably and cleanly for the masses.
THE Monetary Policy Committee of the Reserve Bank projected South African economy to grow by half percent. There are fundamental policies which constraint growth. I will deal with three.
A industrial revolution involving convergence of the physical, biological and digital) is under way.
