The IMF’s stark warning last week that the government needs to accelerate the pace of its structural reforms will, I hope, be taken seriously because similar calls from national and sectoral business organisations, labour and civil society groups have largely gone unheeded.

In most parts of the government, there appears to be a lack of understanding of just how dire our economic situation is, and so there is no sense of urgency...

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