Assessing the Economic and Fiscal Effects of the New Growth Path

The study makes relevant recommendations on how government policies and programmes can be strengthened to accelerate economic growth without running into a future debt trap.

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 2010/11 Annual Report

The Commission derives its mandate from the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa Act No. 108 of 1996 as amended. Sections 220, 221, 222 of the South African Constitution (as amended) and related Sections 214(2), 219(5), 228(2)(b), 229(5), 230(2), 230A(2) provide among others that the Commission is an independent and impartial advisory institution that has to be consulted by Government with regard to division of revenue among the three spheres of government and in the enactment of legislation pertaining to provincial taxes, municipal fiscal powers and functions, and provincial and municipal loans.
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2012/13 Submission for the Division of Revenue

A key issue addressed in this Submission relates to the appropriate consolidation of public deficits and debt reduction following increased expenditures as an aftermath of the 2008/2009 global financial and economic recession.

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TECHNICAL REPORT: 2012/2013 SUBMISSION for THE DIVISION OF REVENUE

The volume taken as a whole argues that, although South Africa is recovering from the recession induced by the 2008/2009 global economic crisis, unemployment, poverty, inequality and low growth persist.

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