Tag: economic growth

Prof Danie Meyer | Senior researcher and lecturer: Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences | North-West University | daniel.meyer@nwu.ac.za | www.nwu.ac.za | Despite the surprisingly...

What are the real benefits of driving innovation and efficiency in business? Today ‘innovation’ is a buzzword: essential to many companies’ proclaimed existence, rather than...

For the second time in history, the African continent has become a focal point for global expansion.  As a result, valuable goods, services and...

Third world data prices have no place in SA’s first world mobile industry. South Africa scored a massive quality of life victory for the majority...

The euphoria of the ‘Africa rising’ narrative may have faded after slowed economic growth across the continent over the past few years, but there...

The 4th industrial revolution ushers in the era of data & analytics (D&A), the Internet of Things (IoT), machine learning, cognitive computing and artificial...

Economic growth is a constant mantra of politicians, economists and the media. Few understand what it is, but they love and follow it blindly....

With the economy seeing consecutive negative growth that has placed it in the grips of a technical - but very real - recession. It will...

Lullu Krugel, Chief Economist at KPMG in South Africa, shares insight on how South Africa will get out of recession and to turn around the non-investment grade position, the country must embrace transparency and change in leadership and direction.

Many African businesses are grappling with the challenges posed by digitalisation as fears mount of the "rise of the machine” and its consequent impact on jobs and growth. However, this myopic view of the future comes with a significant risk as it overlooks the real economic value that digitally driven industry initiatives will bring to growth, development, jobs and society at large.