Let’s focus on exports — which doesn’t need the highly skilled
While dismal education outcomes are infuriating, believing they preclude healthy growth can be more limiting than education failures themselves
02 October 2019 - 13:15
Robert Mugabe’s death warrants reflecting on how inflaming anti-colonisation sentiments benefits ruling elites while dousing economic vitality. Preserving colonial animosities explains much of SA’s inability to conceive a high growth plan.
The global economy’s dynamism makes isolationist biases unaffordable. If patronage, corruption and state-owned enterprise (SOE) mismanagement were suddenly vanquished, sufficient sustainable growth would remain elusive pending far greater global integration. ..
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