OECD Economic Outlook, Volume 2014 Issue 1
The OECD Economic Outlook is the OECD's twice-yearly analysis of the major economic trends and prospects for the next two years. The Outlook puts forward a consistent set of projections for output, employment, prices, fiscal and current account balances. Coverage is provided for all OECD member countries as well as for selected non-member countries. This issue includes a general assessment, chapters summarising developments and providing projections for each individual country, a special chapter on growth prospects and fiscal requirements over the long term and a statistical annex which includes data on housing, debt, and many other variables.
South Africa
Economic activity is expected to be driven by faster export growth, reflecting depreciation of the rand and a pick-up in world trade growth. Domestic demand will be held back by continued weak confidence and modest growth in real incomes, but will slowly benefit from the stronger external sector. However, growth will not become strong enough to reduce the substantial negative output gap.
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