Creator
Fouché Venter is the executive director of Economic Research Southern Africa, a platform focused on boosting the impact, volume, quality and policy relevance of economic research in the region. As an economist, he focuses primarily on South Africa’s fiscal policy challenges.
South Africa’s growth is hampered by the number of small firms entering and exiting the economy without ever scaling or adding significant value
We all need a budget limit, and so does the government – a fiscal anchor. But that doesn’t mean there’s no flexibility to respond to economic shocks
