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What Africa needs

07 April 2009

The past seven or eight years have generally been good in terms of economic growth for most African economies.

Steep increase in the deficit: Unavoidable stabilisation measure, or an ominous structural break?

18 February 2009

As usual, most analysts have again heaped praise on Finance Minister Trevor Manuel for the clever way in which he managed to profess his continued commitment to prudent fiscal policy in the 2009 Budget, while also acknowledging and allowing for the effects on SA of the current global economic recession (which he warned could become a depression).

Economist Intelligence Unit Democracy Index 2008

03 February 2009

The Economist Intelligence Unit have released their Democracy Index 2008 for free.

Deflation threat could send interest rates tumbling

24 November 2008

The global economic outlook is worsening by the day.

New interactive charts and data preview in EasyXL

17 November 2008

Our web based data tool, EasyXL, now allows users to view charts and data tables of any of our RSA Economic Indicators data series.

Interest rate prospects

14 October 2008

The Reserve Bank left interest rates unchanged at both their August and October 2008 MPC meetings, despite an acceleration in inflation.

Access RSA and Global Economic Indicators using our EasyData website

07 October 2008

Last week we made our new EasyData website available to all users subscribed to our South African Economic Indicators data collections.

Making the business case for Africa

01 October 2008

We would like to inform you about a new syndicated research programme by the Economist Intelligence Unit for multinational companies operating in Africa.