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Pravin Gordhan, South African Minister of Finance on Land Reform, BRICS Bank, & African Growth

18 Thursday Apr 2013

Posted by africaindc in Analysis, DC Corridors of Power, Uncategorized

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African Development, African National Congress, BRIC Bank, Brookings Institution, Land Reform in South Africa, Pravin Gordhan, South Africa

2013-04-17 16.04.40

Judging by the white tents I saw set up outside of the IMF and World Bank earlier this week, there must be some sort of prominent economics meeting going on in town (my ignorance reveals that I’m not much of an economics person).  I suspect that this is why South Africa’s Minister of Finance, Pravin Gordhan, was around to speak at the Brookings Institution today (his counterpart in Zimbabwe will speak at Freedom House tomorrow and I hope to cover that as well).  The Chief Economist for Africa at the World Bank was also on the panel, I’ll post separately on his remarks (and those of a Brookings economist), which were mildly incendiary and displeased me, on Friday or over the weekend.

The topic of the panel was “Inequality and Inclusive Growth in Africa” and not surprisingly with that theme, Minister Gordhan expounded on Continue reading →

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