National Treasury’s debt projections have drifted higher since the global financial crisis, reflecting persistent primary deficits and repeated downward revisions to projections of economic growth. A large contribution to the improvement in the debt profile between the 2021 and 2022 Budget Reviews came from the upward revision to the level of South Africa’s GDP (by 11% in 2020, for example).
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Compiled by Lisa Martin
