Isaah Mhlanga

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Isaah Mhlanga

Isaah Mhlanga is chief economist at Alexander Forbes and a fellow of Economic Research of Southern Africa

Limitations: A cargo ship loaded with containers leaves a port in Haikou in China’s southern Hainan province. The Covid-19 pandemic has had far-reaching financial and economic consequences, including disruptions to global value chains. (AFP/China OUT)

BASIC INCOME GRANT

China and Omicron are the wild cards for the global economy and financial markets

Lockdown restrictions will continue to disrupt global value chains and support rising inflation that will require aggressive rate hikes

Isaah Mhlanga

The MTBPS stresses that there are already 18.3 million citizens who receive one or another form of welfare grant. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

2008 GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISIS

Social welfare: Investment not debt, taxation and consumption

A rebuttal to Colin Coleman’s remarks at the National Investment Dialogue suggests South Africa certainly has a debt problem

Isaah Mhlanga