Allowing skilled immigration is a small policy shift that could pay big dividends. SA has been advised of this repeatedly since 2008 – it is even one of government’s priority reforms – but progress remains agonisingly slow, writes ClaireBisseker.
Liberalising immigration requirements for highly skilled workers has been part of SA’s policy reform kit for years. However, the politicisation of the debate, coupled with ideological opposition from within the government, has stonewalled reforms that could stimulate growth at no cost to the fiscus.
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