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Rachel Jafta
Email: [protected email address]
Phone: +27 (0)21 808 2245
Office: Schumann 516
Research interests:
International Trade, Industrial Organisation and Competition issues, Technological Change and R&D, Affirmative Action and Black economic Empowerment
Courses lectured:Economics 244 (International Trade), Economics 281 (Development Economics), Economics 348 (Trade and Industrial Policy), Economics of Technological Change 771
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BER Weekly
19 Apr 2024There was good news for global growth this week – with China's Q1 GDP beating expectations (see international section) and the IMF lifting its global growth forecast for 2024 once more. SA economic data releases, however, were mixed, with a welcome downtick in CPI inflation but relatively poor internal trade data. Most of the world’s economic policymakers...
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BER Weekly
19 Apr 2024There was good news for global growth this week – with China's Q1 GDP beating expectations (see international section) and the IMF lifting its global growth forecast for 2024 once more. SA economic data releases, however, were mixed, with a welcome downtick in CPI inflation but relatively poor internal trade data. Most of the world’s economic policymakers...
Read the full issue