13 March 2022

The Constitutional Court rules on the public sector wage bill during the Covid-19 pandemic

The Constitutional Court judgement handed down in February 2022 is fascinating because it gives those outside government insight into the complexes process of central wage bargaining, which are largely opaque to academia and broader civil society. Given concerns about the rapidly escalating public service wage bill, these collective bargaining dynamics are particularly pertinent from a public policy and fiscal policy […]

Fiscal policy
29 November 2021

The economic cost of the pandemic and its response for South Africa

From an economics perspective, the COVID-19 shock is unprecedented and very different from other global financial shocks. For the first time since the 1918 Spanish flu epidemic, the South African economy has been hit by real supply and demand shocks that have struck both domestic production and global supply chains, and simultaneously depressed demand in both the domestic and global […]

SA Economy
28 November 2021

COVID-19 impact on the South African economy

This video features an animated mind map which analyses the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on the South African economy. It was produced for the 2021 Public Economic Winter School which was hosted by GTAC (the Government Technical Assistance Centre) in August 2021. It was fun working with an animator for the first time. Videos like these are a great […]

SA Economy
28 November 2021

COVID-19 timeline animation

I collaborated with the GTAC (Government Technical Assistance Centre) in the National Treasury to create this little video of the timeline of corona virus pandemic from its inception in South Africa around March 2020 to August 2021, for the 2021 GTAC Public Economics Winter School. Enjoy!

SA Economy

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