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Das Wirtschaftsforschungsinstitut (Wifo) wird seine Prognose für das laufende Jahr "deutlich hinaufschrauben", sagte dessen Leiter Christoph Badelt am Sonntag in der ORF-Pressestunde. Beim Arbeitslosengeld und der Steuerreform plädierte der Ökonom, sich die Modelle genau anzusehen, um unerwünschte Effekte zu vermeiden. Wegen drohender Armut brauche es bestimmte Coronahilfen wie den Härtefallfonds länger und entsprechende Sozialleistungen müssten erhöht werden, so Badelt.

Tomorrow, in his State of the Nation Address, President Ramaphosa is going to have to show South Africans that he is in fact the man in charge, and not just another spectator to everything that is happening to our country. Three years into his presidency he is yet to display this kind of decisive leadership, but such is the urgency of our situation that he is going to have to discover his fortitude by tomorrow evening. We can’t afford an appeaser or a mediator for a president. We can’t afford a president who is so afraid of competing factions in his party that he is unable to act o...