A two-year research project by Harvard professor Ricardo Hausmann's Growth Lab says that the government's proposed economic reforms are unlikely to reverse the collapse of state capacity which will continue to be blocked by patronage, ideology, and political gridlock.
SA needs "new strategies and instruments" to achieve its economic growth and inclusion goals.
Based on nine in-depth papers, the report drills down into the reasons for SA's poor economic performance, which it says is exacerbating exclusion and inequality, and identifies two classes of problems: state collapse and spatial exclusion.