Een van die belangrike gevolge van die Covid-19 pandemie en inperking is die ongelyke impak daarvan op Suid-Afrikaners. Die afgelope week is dit weer duidelik uitgelig.

Everyone wants a house by the sea, everyone hopes Covid is over. Whether you are over the pandemic, or use the words new normally in quotation marks, it's for sure that the pandemic and lockdown have affected life and the economy. David Lerche of Sanlam shared some interesting views over the past week on what they think the new trends are.

Almal wil ʼn huisie by die see hê, almal hoop dat Covid is verby. Of jy lankal oor die inperking is, of die woorde nuwe normaal in aanhalingstekens gebruik, dit is seker dat die pandemie en inperking die lewe en die ekonomie geraak het. David Lerche van Sanlam het die afgelope week ʼn paar interessante sienings gedeel oor wat hulle dink die neigings is.

Netwerk24 annually presents the Economist of the Year competition. Economists are participating and predicting the values of eight key economic indicators for 2021. The first round of forecasts was in March and it is interesting to learn what their views are.

Netwerk24 bied jaarliks die Ekonoom van die Jaar kompetisie aan. Ekonome neem deel en voorspel die waardes van agt belangrike ekonomiese aanwysers vir 2021. Die eerste rondte voorspellings was in Maart-maand en dit is interessant om te leer wat hulle siening is.

Yesterday's Minute was about global economic uncertainty. Today it is about South Africa's policy uncertainty index.

Gister se Minuut het gegaan oor wêreldwye ekonomiese onsekerheid. Vandag gaan dit oor Suid-Afrika se beleidsonsekerheidsindeks.

Economic uncertainty is high worldwide. The level of the World Uncertainty Index has declined over the past year but is still 50% higher than the historical average. What are people unsure about, and why does it matter?

Ekonomiese onsekerheid is hoog wêreldwyd. Die vlak van die Wêreldonsekerheidsindeks het afgeneem oor die afgelope jaar, maar is steeds 50% hoër as die historiese gemiddeld. Waaroor is mense onseker, en hoekom maak dit saak?

This past week, the rating agency S&P Global published a so-called misery index for South Africa and other emerging markets. It is calculated as the sum of a country's unemployment rate and inflation rate. Their concern is that the figures point to the stagnation of the emerging economies of the Middle East and Africa. But is it really going miserably?