Apr 15, 2021 Southern Africa’s middle-income countries will continue to miss out on the demographic opportunity of above-average shares of people of working age in populations unless governments better tackle unemployment, social inequalities, and high HIV rates. Scope Ratings says credit outlooks of the five countries of southern Africa are at risk from faltering growth, sharpening social tensions and growing fiscal pressures which demographics, in the absence of the right policy mix, have accentuated for several years. “Make-or-break demographics are at their most acute in South Africa,...