A review of the NDP in the context of the pandemic must lead us to a post-Covid-19 development model that encompasses the three phases of recovery, reprioritisation and reconstruction, writes Thembi Siweya.
Termed “an invisible enemy”, scientists and medical practitioners defined the Covid-19 coronavirus as a health crisis.
He argues: “You have to break out of this almost-paralysis which is binding you to become bean-counters ... What is our budget? What is the inflation rate? You have somehow become locked into this mentality, and that way you will never achieve large-scale structural transformation.” A review of the NDP in the context of the pandemic must lead us to a post-Covid-19 development model that encompasses the three phases of recovery, reprioritisation and reconstruction.
French economist Professor Thomas Piketty, in his book Capital in the Twenty-First Century, argues that income is expressed as the sum of income from labour and capital.
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