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Hot Air Inc: Will R131-billion enable a just transition from coal for South Africa?

Onke Ngcuka at COP26, Glasgow
13 Nov

Eskom secures $57.6m loan approval from African Development Bank

Tembile Sgqolana
04 Nov

We have a crisis: South Africa urgently needs leadership to roll out Covid-19 vaccine mandates

Mpiko Ntsekhe and Tracey Naledi
24 Oct

World Bank says climate-smart infrastructure investments could ‘deliver benefits’ to South Africa worth R10-trillion

Ethan van Diemen
07 Oct

SA’s deep cuts to spending must be matched by targeted labour reforms — World Bank

Mfuneko Toyana
12 Jul

International financiers pump R10bn into SA’s Aspen Pharmacare to boost Covid-19 vaccine production

Peter Fabricius
30 Jun

Revealing remittances: World Bank says money flows exceeded foreign direct investment and aid

Ed Stoddard
16 May

Pandemic opens the door for a game-changing approach to South African policymaking

Jason Bell
20 Apr

Africa and the IMF – an unlikely duo 

Zachary Donnenfeld for ISS Today
09 Feb

World Bank: Pandemic has set living standards back at least a decade in much of Africa

Ed Stoddard
06 Jan

The Covid-19 pandemic has tested Africa to the limits – but there are many signs of hope

Abebe Shimeles
06 Dec

G20 adopts a plan to reduce or reschedule the debts of deeply indebted poorer countries

Peter Fabricius
23 Nov 2020

Zambia debt crisis just the ears of the hippopotamus in Africa’s perilous fiscal position

Azwimpheleli Langalanga
17 Nov 2020

SAA gets special treatment in Mboweni’s mini budget 

Ray Mahlaka
28 Oct 2020

Tito Mboweni asks for a ‘mini budget’ delay – a worrying sign the economic line isn’t holding

Marianne Merten
13 Oct 2020

Jobs, not growth alone, hold key for sustainable economic recovery – World Bank

Xolisa Phillip
08 Oct 2020

World Bank sees sub-Saharan Africa’s GDP down 3.3% in 2020 — and 40m people falling into extreme poverty

Ed Stoddard
08 Oct 2020

Which curve to flatten in Africa: Coronavirus or economic growth and development?

Lyal White, Liezl Rees and Nikitta Hahn
08 Oct 2020

Coronavirus may push 150 mln people into extreme poverty-World Bank

Reuters
08 Oct 2020

Debt cancellation needed to help poorest countries -World Bank president

Reuters
05 Oct 2020

Pandemic preparedness panel slams collective failure to heed warnings

Reuters
16 Sep 2020