The Budget Justice Coalition's submission to the Select and Standing Committees on Appropriations shows that austerity budgeting has led to expenditure cuts and allocations which pit the realisation of different rights against each other.
This presentation was made to the Select and Standing Committees on Finance during the public hearing following the 2019 Budget speech
A five-year review of budget policies and outcomes made as a Budget Justice Coalition submission to the Select and Standing Committees on Finance.
In October 2018 South Africa appeared before the United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.
This submission highlights areas within selected programmes that are in need of concerted interventions in relation to budgeting and planning.
This submission outlines the key concerns and recommendations of the Institute for Economic Justice, SECTION27 and CESR on the occasion of South Africa's review before the United Nations Committee.
The COVID-19 pandemic and the national responses to it brought the world almost to a complete lockdown.
The South African economy has faced a slowdown since the end of the metals boom in 2011.
The private financial sector can rarely finance developmentally important sectors on its own and publicly owned development finance institutions (DFIs) continue to fill these gaps in both industrialised and developing economies.
The future of the agricultural sector as the largest employer, particularly in the rural areas, is at risk.