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Speaking during the launch, Chief Guest speaker, Dr Julius Kipng’etich – Group CEO Jubilee Insurance said, “We need to use data science to understand customer behaviour. Even the media industry needs to understand the customer in a very special way. Where data will help customise the news they provide across various different platforms depending on the consumers generated patterns.” He added, “We need to start thinking of our education system. Is it competitive enough to drive the culture for the demand for
SA should look East for lessons on economic development
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Governments in most developing countries use medium-term expenditure frameworks as fiscal policy instruments to match the imperatives of policy, planning and budgeting over the medium-term horizon.
South Africa adopted the framework in 1998.
Countries with strong ties to the Bretton Woods institutions â the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank â have adopted the medium-term expenditure framework as the main driver of budget policy. Like macroeconomic management orthodoxy, the Washington consensus forms the basis of this approach. The World Bankâs push for the adoption of frameworks has been subtle. For instance since 1991, they have been an integral part of the Bankâs products such as technical assistance, lending operations, and analytical and advisory services.
Sipho Mabena It is a shameful abdication of duties, making this government one of the most irresponsible on earth, all in the name of fiscal discipline With millions out of work, Mboweni faces an uphill battle to balance the budget and revitalise the economy. Picture: Tracy Lee Stark The cost-containment measures announced by finance minister Tito Mboweni was unprecedented and worse even than in 1998, Patrick Bond, according to professor at the University of the Western Cape School of Government. Bond said the oft-touted R500 billion fiscal stimulus has now clearly been unveiled as a fib and that from R1.486 trillion in 2019-20, the 2020-21 spending (on non-interest items) would have been R1.535 billion had it simply kept up with inflation of 3.3% this past year. Also Read: Budget 2021: What wasn’t said was th
18 February 2021 - Wits University
The DSI-NRF Centre of Excellence in Human Development at Wits helped develop the 15th issue of the South African Child Gauge®.
The Children’s Institute at the University of Cape Town (UCT) publishes the Gauge annually to review the status of children in South Africa and to inform policy and programming.
The South African Child Gauge® 2020 was launched on 18 February in partnership with the Department of Science and Innovation-National Research Foundation (DSI-NRF) Centre of Excellence in Human Development based at Wits University, the DSI-NRF Centre of Excellence in Food Security at the University of the Western Cape, the Standard Bank Tutuwa Community Foundation, the DG Murray Trust, and UNICEF South Africa.
A third wave could be only three to four months away, amidst a new, more infectious SARS-CoV-2 variant (the virus that causes Covid-19), 501Y.V2, that emerged during our second wave and is now dominant in South Africa. The new variant has also changed itself in such a way that it can evade the antibodies that our bodies produce in response to the original version of the virus.
We’ve created an interactive map to show you how SARS-CoV-2 spread through South Africa between September 2020 and January 2021 (during this time the new variant, 501Y.V2, became dominant).
Last week, South Africa started to roll-out Johnson & Johnson vaccines that are 85% effective in protecting against severe Covid disease (the type of Covid that makes people end up in hospital or die).