{"id":143650,"date":"2025-11-19T21:59:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T21:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/143650\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T21:59:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T21:59:10","slug":"are-we-turning-the-economic-corner-or-still-getting-to-the-corner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/143650\/","title":{"rendered":"Are we turning the economic corner or still getting to the corner?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Amid a flurry of upbeat economic news \u2014 a good medium-term budget, a stronger rand, escape from the greylist, the JSE on steroids, and progress \u2014 on paper at least \u2014 on reform of SA\u2019s moribund rail and ports system, Ann Bernstein, head of the Centre for Development and Enterprise, tells Peter Bruce in this edition of Podcasts from the Edge, \u201cI\u2019m the first to welcome good news [and] we need to recognise what changes have been made [but] I don\u2019t think we\u2019ve turned the corner. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cI think we\u2019re approaching the corner. And if you look at a lot of the reforms, energy\u2019s the most important \u2026 But there\u2019s so much more to do \u2026 we shouldn\u2019t let our guard down. Look at the whole chessboard. There\u2019s unemployment, which is worse than it was a year ago by some 200,000 people. And we are simultaneously watching the absolute chaos, corruption and disaster in our criminal justice system.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Amid a flurry of upbeat economic news \u2014 a good medium-term budget, a stronger rand, escape from the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":143651,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[138,96956,96957,96955,95878,219,111,139,69,96958],"class_list":["post-143650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-centre-for-development-and-enterprise","tag-corruption-south-africa","tag-criminal-justice-system-corruption","tag-economic-reforms","tag-economy","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-south-africa-unemployment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143650\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}