Today’s Medium Term Budget Policy Statement (MTBPS) in South Africa signalled that the government is broadly sticking with its fiscal consolidation plans. But with growing pressures to ramp up social support just one of the many risks facing the public finances, we think that policymakers will find it increasingly difficult to stabilise the public debt ratio by the middle of this decade.
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