Economists and watchers of government spending canvassed by Daily Maverick have warned that the government will be forced to cut expenditure this year by at least R25-billion. The budgets of crucial service delivery programmes in health, education and criminal justice are on track to be cut, ne.
New research, authored by Michael Sachs, Arabo Ewinyu and Olwethu Shedi, challenges a widely held view that there is a fiscal crisis resulting from a ‘bloated state’.