If South Africa, the most developed economy on the continent, cannot create enough jobs, economists warn, then how are poorer countries in Africa going to generate opportunities for their booming ...

Hence, the external sector can be leveraged to support higher and sustainable growth in South Africa. Greater outward orientation can also help increase competition in domestic markets and support the ...

To illustrate our argument we have used the example of a small hamlet in South Africa’s Limpopo province ... to have a significant impact on the economy and society, with estimates of up ...

but on their own not sufficient to generate the productivity gains needed to put the economy on a path toward permanently higher growth. To help unlock South Africa’s full growth potential, the IMF ...