South Africa Needs to End the Lockdown - Here's a Blueprint for Its Replacement

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The public debate on strategies to tackle COVID-19 often unhelpfully positions health and economic considerations in a diametric fashion - as trade-offs. In fact, economic policy has health consequences. And health policy has economic consequences. The two need to be seen as parts of a coherent whole.

In the case of South Africa, the country currently faces three interrelated problems. These are the public health threat from the COVID-19 pandemic, the economic and health effects of the lockdown, and a range of intractable economic problems not directly due to the current pandemic. These include high unemployment, low economic growth and falling per capita income.

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