HILARY JOFFE: Obstacles to doing business stifle job creation and keep us poor
27 October 2019 - 00:13
In his February state of the nation address, President Cyril Ramaphosa noted that the World Bank's annual "doing business" index ranked SA 82nd out of 190 countries but announced that the government had set itself a target of being among the top 50 on the index within three years. He was referring to the government's push to remove constraints to doing business and attract new investment, in the context of the investment conferences he initiated last year. A team had been established, he said, to address the policy and regulatory barriers frustrating investors...
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