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More bailouts for Eskom and other cash-strapped SOEs come amid an ongoing exodus of senior executives. This has raised renewed questions about the willingness and ability of…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB245290
ISSN: 2633-304X
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Crucial to the new framework's success will be the ongoing overhaul of state-owned oil company Sonangol, alongside an oil price recovery, as well as politically contentious fuel…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB258516
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Infrastructure shortfalls.
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB227584
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Capacity constraints across Eskom’s power stations have resulted in sustained rotational load shedding (power outages) in recent weeks, while its debt and liquidity issues risk…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB240480
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Nigeria's fragile recovery
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB232271
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This followed two days after Finance Minister Tito Mboweni’s Medium Term Budget Policy Statement (MTBPS), which offered an honest assessment of the steep deterioration in the…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB247562
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The debt brake, which places a strict limit on the issuance of public debt and reflects Germany's innate fiscal conservatism, is being challenged given COVID-19 disruption, a…
However, cuts to the social grants budget and a continued focus on the planned three-year wage freeze for civil servants has annoyed (among others) the ruling ANC's ‘Tripartite…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB259790
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Economic policy-making.
The IMF's willingness to turn a blind eye may enable Angola to retain access to concessional finance over the next 18 months; however, Luanda needs a plan to address deferred…