Real Economy
Working during a pandemic
By: Terence Creamer 10th April 2020 Flattening the curve, as Harvard Kennedy School’s Ricardo Hausmann pointed out in a recent presentation, means that there will be fewer cases of... →
Virtue of necessity
By: Terence Creamer 3rd April 2020 This 21-day lockdown is quite obviously a solution that has been cooked up for a very different context to the one prevailing in South Africa. It... →
New ways of thinking and acting
By: Terence Creamer 27th March 2020 Planning, coordination and cooperation have to become our watchwords as we seek to respond to the Covid-19 health emergency and the economic... →
Be prepared
By: Terence Creamer 20th March 2020 There was much excitement at the start of 2018 about the prospect of a growth tailwind, following Cyril Ramaphosa’s election as African National... →
Worrying developments
By: Terence Creamer 13th March 2020 It is almost impossible to overstate the scale of the gas discoveries that have been made in the Rovuma basin of northern Mozambique since 2010.... →
Implementation risks
By: Terence Creamer 6th March 2020 It is difficult to remember a time when economists and commentators were so off the mark when making forecasts about what a Finance Minister would... →
Energy B-HAG
By: Terence Creamer 28th February 2020 In light of President Cyril Ramaphosa’s announcement that measures will be taken in the coming months to fundamentally change the trajectory of... →
Out of step
By: Terence Creamer 21st February 2020 There were indications already at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, that South Africa was out of step with the main themes occupying... →
Walter Mitty Syndrome
By: Terence Creamer 14th February 2020 The South African government would not be able to build an emergency hospital in ten days, let alone an emergency power station. For evidence, look... →
In need of a quick win
By: Terence Creamer 7th February 2020 Any rational observer of the South African condition, will probably have grudgingly come to accept that it’s going to take a significant amount of... →
