How to 'build back fairer' from the Covid-19 pandemic
Three policy areas suggest quick, economical reforms
21 November 2021 - 00:00
Before the Covid-19 pandemic, SA was mired with low growth, structural unemployment, and high inequality. Weaknesses in electricity and transport infrastructure, a scarcity of skilled workers, constrained fiscal space, poor institutional governance, and consequent low confidence, reduced the country’s growth potential and ability to achieve its development goals. ..
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