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South Africa’s eroding growth potential

By Prieur du Plessis, on February 20th, 2011 posted in: South Africa

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By Cees Bruggemans, Chief Economist of FNB.

For the past ninety years for which modern data sets are available, South Africa’s GDP has grown by an average of 3.5% annually through many business cycle ups and downs.

Some decades faster, some decades slower, over- and undershooting this average, […]

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