Rob Jeffrey
Robert Jeffrey is managing director and a senior economist at Econometrix, specialising in the energy, mining and the electrical sectors. A graduate of the University of the Witwatersrand and of the University of Cambridge, he has forty years’ experience in project consulting. Johannes Jordaan is an associate econometrician at Econometrix. He holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Pretoria. He was a senior economist and manager at KPMG until 2009 and is currently also a part-time research fellow at UNISA.
South Africa: policy failure

South Africa: policy failure

The South African economy has made great strides since 1994, when apartheid was replaced with a democratic system. One useful measure of this is the country’s FDI liabilities — FDI stock held by foreign companies in the country. In 1996 these were $14.4 billion in...

Rob Jeffrey
Robert Jeffrey is managing director and a senior economist at Econometrix, specialising in the energy, mining and the electrical sectors. A graduate of the University of the Witwatersrand and of the University of Cambridge, he has forty years’ experience in project consulting. Johannes Jordaan is an associate econometrician at Econometrix. He holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Pretoria. He was a senior economist and manager at KPMG until 2009 and is currently also a part-time research fellow at UNISA.
South Africa: policy failure

South Africa: policy failure

The South African economy has made great strides since 1994, when apartheid was replaced with a democratic system. One useful measure of this is the country’s FDI liabilities — FDI stock held by foreign companies in the country. In 1996 these were $14.4 billion in...