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Can South Africa avoid macroeconomic populism?

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  • Paper presented at the biennial conference of the Economic Society of South Africa, Pretoria, October 1993. The author thanks Chris Torr, Yvonne Kemp, Tony Seeber, Piet‐Hein van Eeghen and Louis Fourie for useful comments and suggestions. The usual disclaimer applies.

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