South Africa’s budget to sow seeds of fiscal slippage

South Africa’s upcoming budget speech will probably contain better-than-projected fiscal results, allowing the finance minister to extend temporary spending measures without undermining near-term budget targets. But this will increase the risk of permanently looser fiscal policy that shifts public debt onto an unsustainable trajectory.

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