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2025 v1.0
The Quarterly Bulletin is the first draft of economic history. It reminds us that 2025 was better but not great.
 • Roy Havemann
How can South Africa decisively turn the corner?
Three conferences on growth all concluded that growth should be our number 1 priority. If we listen to their messages we can truly turn the corner.
 • Roy Havemann
Repost - What we can learn from India?
Manhoman Singh passed away on 26 December 2024.
 • Roy Havemann
We need to talk... about economic growth
Today is a sad day, as we mourn the passing of Tito Mboweni, the former Governor of the South African Reserve Bank, Minister of Finance and Minister of…
 • Roy Havemann
Towards one policy agenda
The GNU has one policy agenda within its grasp. The first draft just needs a good edit and better alignment to the impending Budget.
 • Roy Havemann
Keeping the mouth of the GNU closed
A Government of National Unity can deliver a better fiscal consolidation
 • Roy Havemann
Here in the liminal space
It is going to be a long few days so I let my imagination go wild
 • Roy Havemann
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By day, I lead the economic growth research at the Bureau for Economic Research (www.ber.ac.za/growth). I am the author of How to Fix (Unf#ck) A Country: 6 Things to Reboot South Africa, published by Jonathan Ball.
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