We have a debilitating crisis in public health and education, but the provincial governments are cutting staff.
Breaking out from South Africa’s growing mass unemployment
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Global Financial Crisis
JUST PROFIT NOT JUST TRANSITION
IN THE SPACE OF A YEAR AND A HALF, South Africa has agreed to borrow billions of rand in foreign currency. This is for a programme of economic restructuring on the basis of a Just Energy Transition Investment Plan (JET-IP). Unions and civil society have been...
THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING
As lockdowns become the main strategy of governments to contain the spread of the virus, the onset of a new global recession will accelerate.
The doublespeak of a discredited IMF
Translated by Christine Pagnoulle and Judith Harris The international crisis that broke in summer 2008 demolished all the neo-liberal dogmas and exposed the deception behind them. Unable to deny their failure, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund claim...
Global Economic Crisis and its Implications
"Debt, the IMF, and the World Bank: Sixty Questions, Sixty Answers"-Éric Toussaint Preface by Ajit Muricken This book is a collection of articles of Eric Toussaint about the global crisis and the need for a new global financial architecture. This edition was published...
The global financial crisis: Lessons and responses from Africa
The international financial crisis reflects the collapse of laissez-faire economics and the growing discredit of market fundamentalism. What was being hailed yesterday as the only road to ‘growth and prosperity’ is now under fierce attack by the same countries and...