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Dick Forslund

Dr Dick Forslund is an economist and researcher at the Alternative Information and Development Centre (AIDC) in Cape Town.

Email: [email protected]

OPINIONISTA

Rethinking fiscal policy: Can SA break free from austerity to fight child malnutrition?

by: Dick Forslund

OPINIONISTA

There is no U-turn – The public sector austerity negotiations and the ‘4.5%’ spin

by: Dick Forslund

OPINIONISTA

The real reasons behind South Africa’s R11bn loan from the World Bank

by: Dick Forslund

OPINIONISTA

Public sector ‘retrenchments’: It’s time for unions to take the austerity bull by the horns

by: Dick Forslund

OPINIONISTA

Law and austerity: Constitutional Court hears unions’ appeal on public sector wage agreement

by: Dick Forslund

The great wealth tax debate: How to fund a constitutional state

Business Maverick, South Africa, Maverick Citizen

The great wealth tax debate: How to fund a constitutional state

by: Dick Forslund

OPINIONISTA

Borrowing from the IMF will only deepen South Africa’s crisis

by: Dick Forslund

Saving Eskom and saving the public sector and its employees from austerity

South Africa, Maverick Citizen

Saving Eskom and saving the public sector and its employees from austerity

by: Dick Forslund

OPINIONISTA

SAA: Tito Mboweni’s R2bn game of financial chicken

by: Dick Forslund

OPINIONISTA

The Government Employee Pension Fund, budget austerity and the Eskom debt crisis

by: Dick Forslund

OPINIONISTA

Putting Eskom’s debt on the government balance sheet could lead to another credit downgrade and disastrous budget austerity

by: Dick Forslund

There are alternatives to permanent economic depression

South Africa

There are alternatives to permanent economic depression

by: Dick Forslund