Joseph Stiglitz
latest news & developmentsG20 presidency handover to the US set for Tuesday, Dirco director general Zane Dangor says
Dangor said the US argument that if one G20 member was absent from the leaders summit, then there could be no consensus, had been voted down
‘World not doing tit for tat with US,’ WTO head says at G20 summit
Director general Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala said South Africa’s G20 presidency highlighted the importance of trade within WTO rules and reforming the system through local mineral…
‘G20 declaration future-proofed, despite US non-participation’, says South Africa’s presidency
Presidency spokesperson Vincent Magwenya said countries understood ‘that there’s a bilateral issue between South Africa and the US, but that must not, in any shape or form,…
Ramaphosa: G20 leaders summit reaches consensus on adopting a declaration
In an apparent reference to US President Donald Trump’s absence, Ramaphosa warned against allowing ‘anything to diminish the value, the stature or the impact of the first African…
How G20 can rise above Trump politics
President Cyril Ramaphosa has cast the annual forum as a test of whether multilateral cooperation still matters
Ramaphosa links debt reform to global inequality fight
In his weekly newsletter, the president said the G20 must urgently address the fiscal conditions that have left low- and middle-income countries unable to build resilience or…
Brics leaders call for cooperation in protectionist global environment
President Cyril Ramaphosa said the uncertainty of the new trading regime had already harmed the country’s economy
Ramaphosa launches G20 panel to address extreme global inequality
The panel, chaired by Nobel prize-winner economist Joseph Stiglitz, will produce recommendations to help bridge the rich-poor divide
South African election exposes the pitfalls of neoliberalism
Populist parties have made considerable gains in the wake of the government’s insecurity-inducing economic policies
Austerity extinguishes industrial policy revival
South Africa risks falling behind as much of the rest of the world embraces industrialisation to grow and protect economies
Economy braces for Trump 2.0
The American presidential hopeful’s world policies make him a bull in a china shop
Inflation’s defeat is an empty victory
This year will finally see interest rates fall. But whatever relief the Reserve Bank administers, it will have come too late for some
SA’s economic policymakers need a better compass
Policymakers at home and abroad failed to see the 2008 crisis as an opportunity to break from the past and imagine the world anew
Interest rate pinch is not worth the pain
Tighter financial conditions will hurt an economy already brought to its knees by the government
SA’s economic system chews up, spits out workers
When macroeconomic policy has so clearly failed workers, and us all, why is a complete overhaul still out of the question?