China’s set of mutually reinforcing reforms could help achieve high quality growth, including a more progressive tax system, investments in human capital and stronger social safety nets to reduce income inequality. Structural reforms, such as enhancing market access, including in relatively closed service sectors, would also help increase competition, encourage innovation, and boost productivity growth …
For more than 100 years, the CPC has combined the universal truths of Marxism-Leninism with practical situation of the Chinese revolution and construction. In the new era of reform and opening up, the CPC has pioneered a socialist system with Chinese characteristics. This is a fundamental achievement of its many generations after some painstaking efforts …
“Let us be precise: for us, African revolution means the transformation of our present life in the direction of progress. The prerequisite for this is the elimination of foreign economic domination, on which every other type of domination is dependent”. Amilcar Cabral at the 3rd Conference of the African Peoples held in Cairo, March 25-31, …
Some might find theoretical discussions to be too abstract, tedious, and divisive, but for a movement that at times seems to have lost its way, there is much that can be gained in clarifying and making more explicit some of the key points on our theoretical compass. In these discussions, dogmatism and divisiveness should be …
“…Mkandawire indicated the variety of social compacts SA needs: nation-building pacts that bridge the racial divide and heal the wounds of past injustice; the “development pacts” that ensure accumulation and legitimise such accumulation in the eyes of many; “competitive pacts” that ensure performance in the global market while governing the market ; “social pacts” that …
“Economic reconstruction and recovery must therefore be transformational. It must not merely return our economy to where it was before the pandemic, but must, as ‘Ready to Govern’ says, democratise the economy and lead to meaningful black economic empowerment… …we have had to implement measures to address the immediate and severe challenges our people face, …
The theme of the 52nd edition of Umrabulo Journal speaks to the subject of “Economic Recovery and Reconstruction” at a time when South Africa is grappling with means to attain an inclusive economy that is sustainable and resilient. Talking to efforts to get the country on this very path, President Cyril Ramaphosa’s ANC’s Economic Recovery …