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Ihsaan Bassier
Ihsaan Bassier is a PhD candidate in Economics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. His research interests are labour and political economy of development, with a regional focus on South Africa.
Three ways to finance the Covid-19 policy response
The government will have to consider the pros and cons of direct taxation, de facto taxation and debt as it negotiates the coronavirus economic crisis
Covid-19: Redirect consumption from the rich to the poor to avert a humanitarian crisis
South Africa doesn’t need a fiscal stimulus but rather a distributive fix through policies that will protect vulnerable households