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Hilary Joffe article on 'Regional growth and development in Southern Africa' project appears in Business Day
Writing in Business Day, Hilary Joffe discusses one of the questions raised at a workshop held in collaboration with the South African Revenue Service and Treasury as part of the project 'Regional growth and development in Southern Africa'. The project aims to allow economists to make the most of a new data set on South African companies and their behaviour. Read an excerpt below, or click here for the full article.
"Do South Africa's’s competition policy makers miss the point when they become preoccupied with trying to catch big companies doing bad things? This was one of the questions raised at a workshop last week at which economists made the most of a new data set on South African companies and their behaviour that the South African Revenue Service (SARS) and Treasury have extracted from tax records (anonymised, of course)."