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Publication

17 June 2021

FMF NEWSLETTER 17 June 2021

weekly newsletter

Healthcare

16 June 2021

How Tariffs Impact Access to Medicines - Geneva Network

Due to their effects on production and prices, import tariffs on pharmaceuticals and medical goods are inimical to affordable access to medicines and medical products.

Labour

15 June 2021

Media release: The solution to SA’s youth unemployment crisis waits in plain sight, says Free Market Foundation

Johannesburg – StatsSA has announced that the official unemployment rate is now 32.6%. On the expanded definition, which includes those who have given up looking for work, the number is 43.2% (more than 11 million people).

Labour

15 June 2021

Ideas matter | The government-imposed unemployment crisis continues apace

South Africa needs to be an environment that encourages all possible economic activity (from the smallest to the biggest); this will not happen through policies and ideas that make it difficult for businesses to operate and a state that consumes ever-more tax revenue, suffocating the private sector.

Economic freedom / Growth

15 June 2021

Letter: SA public policy gone mad

How exactly does the Grand Parade decision promote the spread of greater black ownership?

Transformation

15 June 2021

Wealth tax: A bad idea

With all that said, the potentially negative consequences of wealth taxation such as capital migration, disincentives to save, and the effect on entrepreneurship and employment must be thoughtfully considered.

Rule of law / Law

15 June 2021

It's time to get the constitution involved - Part 1

SA should prescribe rigid measures to rein in a fiscally imprudent government

Rule of law / Law

15 June 2021

Why SA should amend the Constitution to enforce discipline in the fiscus - Part 2

The government would enhance its image as a financially prudent entity that does not run the risk of defaulting on its debt or engaging in extensive QE that crowds out private investment

Energy

11 June 2021

Media release: Free Market Foundation applauds Cabinet heeding sound policy advice, now time to double down

Johannesburg – The Free Market Foundation (FMF) welcomes the decision by President Cyril Ramaphosa’s Cabinet to lift the threshold for companies to produce their own electricity without a licence, to 100 MW.

Healthcare

10 June 2021

Busting the NHI myth

Rather than fix the broken public health system, policymakers are looking to the private sector to provide more money for National Health Insurance

Energy

10 June 2021

Media release: Free Market Foundation proposes immediate reforms to stop rolling blackouts

Johannesburg – The Stage 4 loadshedding (better understood as Stage 4 de-industrialisation) announced on 9 June 2021 is the inevitable consequence of government’s policy choices.

Land Reform

10 June 2021

RESEARCH - Private Property, Public Interest

This paper discusses the dangers of government’s proposed confiscation regime. Secondly, it explains why secure, entrenched private property rights serve, rather than undermine or hamstring, the public interest.

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