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Some progressive economists argue that a bigger budget deficit is the solution to the country’s socio-economic woes. But it isn’t that straightforward.
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Adam Aboobaker lectures development economics at the University of Manchester
 
                      
                    
                  
                
              
              Some progressive economists argue that a bigger budget deficit is the solution to the country’s socio-economic woes. But it isn’t that straightforward.
 
                      
                    
                  
                
              
              Much of the criticism about neoliberalism is coming from the dominant faction of the ANC, the center-left party trying to hold onto power.
 
                      
                    
                  
                
              
              Postcolonial and intersectional theories, the dominant tendencies in student movements, suffer from an absence of economic analysis.