MEDIA BRIEFING INVITATION
Dr Martyn Davies* will answer Leon Louw’s questions on what makes Chinese SPECIAL ECONOMIC ZONES (SEZs) special and why, if South Africa is serious about RADICAL ECONOMIC TRANSFORMATION, it should learn from China
Is China a special case or an exemplar of which policies coincide with which outcomes?
China has the world’s most interesting and potentially most instructive economy. China’s freest province is nearly as free as the world’s freest economy, Hong Kong, and its least free province is less free than the world’s least free indexed country, Myanmar. In other words, China has a bigger range of economic systems internally than the world has internationally.
China’s growth is consistent with and predicted by its economic freedom score.
Radical Economic Transformation
FMF defines Radical Economic Transformation as being less of the same and more of policies that result in transformation. FMF has prepared a series of media releases (see below) on policy reforms that will result in that elusive inclusive growth.
Media releases on Radical Economic Transformation
ANC Conference must adopt real radical economic transformation – not more of the same paternal statism
ANC Conference must reject ICT White Paper and Hate Speech Bill for South Africa to drop Apartheidesque communications policy
Radical economic transformation means South Africans keep and control their own money
For radical economic transformation in energy, adopt the 1998 White Paper
Yes – introduce radical economic transformation in labour policy and help 9 million unemployed
“Amandla! Awethu!” means power to the people, not government – it’s time to decentralise!
23 years post-apartheid, South Africa needs to be radical about land reform
Education needs radical transformation. Don’t leave our children in the apartheid era
Background:
Dr Martyn Davies is the Managing Director of Emerging Markets & Africa at Deloitte. He also leads the Africa firm’s China and Japan Services Group and is a member of the Global Firm’s Insight Advisory Group. Martyn was selected in 2010 as a Young Global Leader, an honour bestowed by the World Economic Forum each year to recognise the most distinguished young leaders nominated below the age of 40 from around the world and has served in various advisory capacities at the WEF. Martyn has previously been ranked the # 1 analyst in South Africa in the “Other African Economies & Markets” category as awarded by the Financial Mail in its Annual Analysts of the Year awards.
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Media enquiries
For more information and to arrange for photographs and interviews, contact:
Jayne Boccaleone
082 904 3616
jboccaleone@gmail.com
Other enquiries
Joan Evans
011 884 0270
joanevans@fmfsa.org
Note
The FMF is an independent, non-profit, public benefit organisation, created in 1975 by pro-free market business and civil society national bodies to work for a non-racial, free and prosperous South Africa. As a policy organisation it promotes sound economic policies and the principles of good law. As a think tank it seeks and puts forward solutions to some of the country’s most pressing problems: unemployment, poverty, growth, education, health care, electricity supply, and more. The FMF was instrumental in the post-apartheid negotiations and directly influenced the Constitutional Commission to include the property rights clause: a critical cornerstone of economic freedom.
The FMF has a wealth of information in papers, articles and opinion pieces available on the website which can influence the public debate and present alternative policies to the people of South Africa. Please look at our website www.freemarketfoundation.com. Also see Facebook and Twitter.