| 2014
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| Consumer
Inflation Report - March 2014
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The rate of annual inflation as measured by the headline consumer price index (CPI) hit the Reserve Bank’s upper inflation target, coming in at 6.0%. This rate represented a 0.1% increase from 5.9% in February 2014 and a 1.3% month-on-month increase between February and March.
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| SA
Quarterly Economic Report: 1st Quarter 2014
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by Jason Mattes
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Market Summary
The economy is not expected to have performed well during the first quarter of 2014, marking a slow start to the year. Growth during the first quarter will definitely be weak and much slower than the 3.8% rate of the last quarter of 2013. Economic indicators that have so far being released paint a picture of an economy at or near
"stagflation" – slow growth, high inflation and high levels of unemployment. The rate of increase in both consumer price inflation and producer price inflation rose in every succeeding month of the first quarter. The year-on-year rate of increase in consumer price inflation quickened from 5.8% in January to 5.9% in February and finally to 6% in March, ending the quarter just within the Reserve Bank’s inflation targeting range of between 3% and 6%.
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| 2013
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| SA
Quarterly Economic Report: 3rd Quarter 2013
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by Jason Mattes
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HIGHLIGHTS
- South African economic growth falls from 3.2% in the second quarter to 0.7% in the third quarter
- Annualised growth in real fixed capital formation rises from 2.1% in the second quarter to 3.1% in the third quarter
- Headline consumer price inflation breaches the Reserve Bank’s target range of 3% to 6% to average 6.23% in the third quarter
- Current account deficit widens from 5.9% of GDP in the second quarter to 6.8% of GDP in the third quarter
- Economy is expected to show faster growth in 2014, with the Reserve Bank forecasting real GDP growth of 3%
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| Comparison between SA and another African country
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| by Jason Mattes
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Botswana is one of the few and well-known African success stories. The landlocked
country has progressed from one of the poorest countries in the world at
independence in 1966 to a middle income country with an estimated GDP per capita
of USD17 200 in 2012, higher than South Africa’s GDP per capita of USD11 800. |
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| SA
Quarterly Economic Report: 2nd Quarter 2013
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| Consumer
Inflation Report - January 2014
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| Consumer
Inflation Report - December 2013
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| Consumer
Inflation Report - November 2013
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| Consumer
Inflation Report - October 2013
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| Consumer
Inflation Report - September 2013
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| Consumer
Inflation Report - June 2013
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| Consumer
Inflation Report - May 2013
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| Consumer
Inflation Report - April 2013
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| SA
Quarterly Economic Report: 1st Quarter 2013
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| 2012
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| SA
Quarterly Economic Report: 4th Quarter 2012
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| SA
Quarterly Economic Report: 3rd Quarter 2012
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