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Unlike other countries, South Africa’s informal sector provides no cushion to workers in time of crisis. Shutterstock

South Africa needs to focus urgently on how COVID‑19 will reshape its labour market

It will take a long time for the full economic impact of COVID-19 to be known, but a careful scrutiny of labour market outcomes over the next couple of months will shed some light.
Jeffrey Sachs: ‘we need to press governments to follow through on what they’ve promised’. Max Rossi/Reuters

Jeffrey Sachs on meeting the Sustainable Development Goals – ‘we need a victory of ideas’

Jeffrey Sachs wants to press governments to follow through on their promises.

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