THE NATURE OF FUNDING MATTERS – MAKING DEVELOPMENT FINANCE WORK FOR SOUTH AFRICA’S SMES IN THE COVID-19 CRISIS
Teboho Bosiu[1] The COVID-19 pandemic is an unfortunate wakeup call regarding the state of enterprise funding in South Africa, although the crisis also presents a unique opportunity for development finance to play a critical role in reviving economic activity and achieving structural transformation in the economy. To do this, the forms and nature of funding […]
CAN CLUSTERING DRIVE SOUTH AFRICA’S ECONOMY FORWARD IN THE AFTERMATH OF THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC? EVIDENCE FROM THE THAI AUTO INDUSTRY
Jason F Bell [1] The COVID-19 pandemic will have an immediate and long-lasting economic impact on the South African economy in the coming months. We need to collectively consider how to rapidly reopen and safely ramp up production in the economy’s already struggling manufacturing sector, post the lockdown. The economic disruption caused by the pandemic […]