There’s growing talk that South Africa’s government could introduce a fiscal rule at this week’s Budget. If so, this would strengthen fiscal credibility and help to lock-in the recent falls in local currency bond yields. But the experience from other EMs is that fiscal rules can be gamed and, in South Africa’s case, it’s not clear if such a rule could commit any future government to fiscal consolidation.
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