Although President Cyril Ramaphosa has lifted South Africa’s state of disaster – with some rules still in effect - the negative impact of the pandemic will continue to haunt us.
It’s tempting to rely on pure economic statistics, like GDP, to assess the damage wrought on the global economy because of the Covid-19 pandemic so far. But there are other profound health and social costs that will be clear only in five to 10 years or even decades’ time. What do we kno.
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Despite the commonly held views of economists on regulatory capture, our profession has been much more hesitant in recognising similar conflicts of interests that may exist in economics research.