The Nordic model holds some insight into how to close South Africa’s yawning income and wealth gap

In its economic survey, the OECD recommends increasing VAT or broadening the base of corporate and personal income taxes to pay for the grant

Migrant workers are seen as contributing to South Africa’s unemployment crisis. But cutting them off threatens to throw the regional economy off kilter

The UK is set to count its excess Covid-19 vaccines as part of its aid budget, taking money away from other projects

Central banks massively underestimated inflation risks as economies bounced back from the pandemic-induced slump

State participation is valid when the market can’t deliver what’s needed, such as roads and rail networks and telecommunications. But banks and airlines are private enterprise…

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The OECD predicts a 7.5% contraction in South Africa’s GDP, with an 8.2% contraction if a second wave of Covid-19 is not avoided

Corporations and banks that aided the apartheid regime have not been brought to book, so they continue to act with impunity

India and China’s slowdown is natural and they’d do well to focus policies on the notion of wellbeing

Multinational companies have been gaming the rules of the global economy to minimise their tax liability — or even eliminate it

The target for tax authorities is the $2-trillion in annual e-commerce transactions that is set to rise to $4.5-trillion in three years’ time

Abusive transfer pricing, bribery and tax evasion are contributing to the loss of more than $60-billion from unlawful money flows in Africa.

Ebrahim Patel told Parliament last week that SA has a strategy to deal with the pending crisis. This is an edited version of the speech he gave.