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Climate resilience and sustainable sovereign debt
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2022 is already a record-breaker in the number of climate change-related events , and developing countries must now pay for the repairs and...

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Do fiscal regimes matter for fiscal sustainability in South Africa?

This paper empirically examines South Africa’s fiscal sustainability through a Markov-switching model which utilizes quarterly datasets for the period from 1960 to 2019. The results show that public debt responds positively, demonstrating a...

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Debt-financed fiscal stimulus in South Africa

Debt-financed fiscal stimulus programmes directly stimulate aggregate demand through government expenditure or tax cuts, but their effectiveness is highly dependent on direct crowding out of private sector expenditure, spillover effects to the...

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Fiscal policy in times of fiscal stress

South Africa runs a primary fiscal deficit and the long-term interest rate on government borrowing, r , is greater than the long-term economic growth rate, g . Without intervention, debt will continue to rise until there is a disorderly fiscal stop...

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Fiscal anchors and sustainable fiscal policy

This paper discusses the rationale and options for a fiscal anchor for South Africa and its potential for restoring and maintaining fiscal sustainability. It argues that a well designed fiscal anchor can be useful in the current fiscal milieu, but...

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