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Research outputs: ECONOMIC RECESSION
2021 Macroeconomic stimulus packages and income inequality in developing countries: lessons from the 2007-9 great recession for the Covid-19 crisis in South Africa
In 2020, the South African government announced that it was planning to implement an ambitious macroeconomic rescue package worth about 10% ...
Download this report2020 Rethinking growth-unemployment puzzles in the COVID-19 recession: contextualising SA's macroeconomic policy options
The total value of goods and services produced inside South Africas borders fell steeply in the last two quarters of 2019, resulting in a sh...
Download this report2011 Rands and sense: financial literacy in South Africa
The recent global economic downturn, coupled with the rising cost of basic commodities and services, increasing debt and persisting unemploy...
Download this report2010 A fresh look at the global economic crisis: Africa's alternatives
If there is something positive emerging from the economic crisis, is that it has reinvigorated the debate around the economic system and it ...
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