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Contents Page
1. Introduction
2. Global Historical Trends and Outlook
3. South African Macroeconomic Picture
3.1 GDP per capita & Income Distribution
3.2 Expenditure on GDP
3.3 Current Account
3.4 Unemployment
3.5 Inflation and changes in Monetary Policy
3.6 Sovereign Risk
4. Conclusion
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1. Introduction
• The Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO) welcomes new and returning Members of Parliament.
• This eighteenth edition of the PBO’s Quarterly Economic Brief (QEB) is the first edition for the Sixth Parliament.
• The QEBs form part of the regular outputs from the PBO based on its ongoing research and analysis that supports the oversight work of the Members of Parliament and their Committees.
• In particular, the PBO supports the implementation of the Money Bills Amendment Act by undertaking research and analysis for the finance and appropriations committees.
• This first edition of the QEB for the Sixth Parliament is an expanded version, that provides more insight into important economic indicators, such as household consumption and debt, unemployment and investment.
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2. Global Historical Trends and Outlook
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Understanding how the growth and changes in the Finance Sector has
affected global and domestic aggregate demand is fundamental in understanding
the Macro Economy…..
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The Great Recession (2008/09)and its aftermath
• Increased global financial liquidity during the pre-crisis period
• Capital (including in South Africa) was allocated towards
Speculation in financial & real estate markets;
Household-debt driven consumption;
More non-financial corporations income & profits from financial
activities;
Share buybacks and other manipulations to keep share prices high
• After the global financial crisis quantitative easing (QE) kept
capital flowing from developed to emerging markets.
• Concern that liquidity supported financial and real estate
asset prices but not real fixed investment.
• The impact of the global financial crisis and Great Recession
still persists more than a decade later.
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Current global macroeconomic trends
• 2018 pointed to worrying issues in the global economy:
Trump tax changes supported short-term growth in the US
that kept global growth at 3.6% in 2018;
Financial market volatility & sharp market corrections;
Expectation of recession in USA within next 18 months and
further Chinese slowdown;
Global Industrial production down and trade volumes
declining since early 2018;
Growth in 2019 expected at 3.3% by IMF and 3.2% by the
OECD;
Growth expectations for 2019 have already been revised
downwards.
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Contributions to change in world
gross product growth, 2017 to 2018
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GDP growth forecasts and revisions for 2019Source: United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs,
World Economic Situation and Prospects as of mid-2019
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Current Global macroeconomic trendsRisks to the global outlook:
• Ongoing trade disputes:
Tariffs and retaliations pose serious threats to operation of global value chains;
Medium-term impact on productivity may affect longer-term growth prospects;
• Trade is important because it supports:
economies of scale;
access to inputs, technology and knowledge;
Diversification.
• Financial stress and volatility
• Poor European performance
• Brexit fallout
• Political instability in Europe and elsewhere
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Global GDP growth per capita, 2018
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3. South African Macroeconomic Picture
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Sector value added percentage contribution
to the first quarter GDP decline
Small positive contributions to
GDP from:
• Business services (0.2%),
• Government (0.2%) and
• Personal services industries
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Snapshot of South Africa’s Socioeconomic Indicators
Unemployment
2019, Q1:
Official: 27.6%
Broad: 38.0%
Youth: 39.6% (O), 51.5%
(B)
Poverty
Headcount at 30,4 million
(55.5% of the
population), 2015 (upper-bound poverty line of R992 per
person per month in 2015 prices)
Inequality
Income: 2014 Gini of 0.69 (High Level Panel)
Wealth: 95% of wealth
owned by 10% (Orthofer
2016)
Concentration of market
power
Woods et al (2018):
Dominant firms in 294
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Indication of income and expenditure levels for quintiles
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3.2 Expenditure on GDP
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Sector contribution to first quarter GDP decline (-3.4%)
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• 3.4% contraction in 1Q 2019 from 1.6 expansion in 4Q 2018
• Growth recorded on Government Consumption (1,3%), Import (4,8%) and Change in Inventory (5,3%)
• Decline recorded on Household Consumption (0,8%), Investment (4,5%) & Export (26,4) 20
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Net acquisition of financial assets and
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Net acquisition of fin assets by corp bus enterprises
Net capital formation - Private business enterprises
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JSE TOP 50 & SHARE OF CROSS LISTED COMPANIES IN TOP 50 IN 2017
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BAT 18,0%
South32 10,0%
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3.3 Current Account
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Quarterly changes in the balance of the current account (as a percentage of GDP)
• The deficit on the current account of the balance of payments increased to R110 billion in the first quarter of 2019. It increased from 2.2% to 2.9% of GDP from the fourth quarter of 2018 to the first quarter of 2019.
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3.4 Unemployment
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Annual unemployment rate – official (2008 – 2018)
• The unemployment rate increased from 22,5% in 2008 to 27,1% in 2018
• The unemployment rate for all categories, except Black African was lower in 2018 than in 2014
• Black African account for more than 75% of the total labor force followed by colored (7,5%) 33
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Number of employed and unemployed ('000s) 2Q 2018 1Q 2019 2Q 2019
Labour force 22 370 22 492 22 968
Employed 16 288 16 291 16 313
Formal sector 11 320 11 220 11 172
Informal sector 2 828 2 933 3 048
Agriculture 843 837 842
Private households* 1 296 1 301 1 251
Unemployed - official 6 083 6 201 6 655
Unemployed – broad** 9 634 9 994 10 226
Not economically active 15 462 15 791 15 465
Discouraged job-seekers 2 864 2 997 2 749
Other (not economically active) 12 598 12 793 12 716
Labour Statistics (Data: Quarterly Labour Force Survey, Stats SA)
Note:
* Private houesholds refers to domestic workers
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Unemployment rates (percentages) 2Q 2018 1Q 2019 2Q 2019
Official unemployment rate (narrow) 27,2% 27,6% 29,0%
Broad unemployment rate* 37,2% 38,0% 38,5%
Unemployment Rates - Gender
Male - official 25,3% 26,1% 27,1%
Female - official 29,5% 29,3% 31,3%
Unemployment Rates - Race
Black African - official 30,1% 31,1% 32,7%
Coloured - official 23,3% 22,2% 22,5%
Indian/Asian - official 10,4% 11,4% 11,2%
White - official 8,0% 6,6% 7,4%
Youth***
Unemployment rate - official 38,8% 39,6% 41,1%
Unemployment rate - broad** 50,4% 51,5% 52,0%
Labour Statistics (Continued)
Notes:
*The broad unemployment rate includes discouraged job seekers
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Sector contribution to employmentQuarterly Employment Survey (QES)
6 060
4 515
-835
-1 352
-8 719
-3 395
5 800
19 083
4 487
9 564
-2 351
-22 788
66 794
2 415
56 994
-39 733
-60 000 -40 000 -20 000 - 20 000 40 000 60 000 80 000
Mining
Manufacturing
Utilities
Construction
Trade
Logistics
Finance and Business services
Comm, social and personal servcies
change in employment year-on-year (1Q 2019)
change in employment quarter-to-quarter (1Q 2019)Data: QES, Stats SA
• Employment increased by 75 381 jobs (a 0.8% increase in employment) in first quarter of 2019 compared to the same quarter in 2018
• Finance and business services and trade were the largest contributors whereas Community, social and personal services and construction made the largest negative contribution, year-on-year.
• Quarter-to-quarter, community, social and personal services created the most jobs whereas trade shed the most
Note: QLFS and QES data cannot be compared due to their key methodological differences
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3.5 Inflation and changes in Monetary Policy
• Headline consumer price inflation (CPI) for all urban areas, increased from 4% in Jan.
2019 to 4.5% in May 2019 .
• Inflation on food & non-alcoholic beverages increased from 3.1% in Jan. 2019 to 3.2% in
May
• In their press statement released on the 18th of July 2019, the Monetary Policy
Committee (MPC) of the South African Reserve Bank reduced the repo rate by 0.25% to
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3.6 Sovereign risk
Yield on SA 10-year bond
• Fitch, which rates SA sovereign debt negative, changed its outlook from stable to
negative
• Moody’s the only ratings agency that still rates sovereign domestic currency debts as
investment grade.
• A downward revision from Moody’s will see SA move to sub-investment grade, and
trigger a sell-off of SA government bonds by foreign institutional investors.
• Yield on SA government debt also
improved (interest rate declined)
• Yield worsened (increased) in July
2019 after announcement of
additional fiscal support for Eskom
• And, because lower than
estimated revenue collection may
prompt more debt issuance this
year.
• Many developed countries currently have very low interest rates and some even have
negative interest rates on bonds
• Emerging market bonds now attract more buyers and yields improved (rates have
dropped)
Credit Rating
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4. Conclusion• The South African economy is faced with a severe
problem of low aggregate demand.
• The factors influencing aggregate demand are:
• Household consumption has been constrained over
the past decade because: Poor households suffer from high levels of poverty and
unemployment
Affluent households remained highly indebted after
their pre-global financial crisis binge
• Private and public investments have been insufficient
to support growth and dent unemployment;
• Government fiscal consolidation over an extended
period constrained its spending and investment;
• Low global demand since the crisis affected SA
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Conclusion
As a result:
• We expect household consumption, private business
fixed investment and exports to remain constrained.
• We expect that a weak global economy may very
likely exert further downward pressure on South Africa’s
economic performance.
• Government’s consumption and investment spending
choices may have a very important and large impact
not only on public finances but on the economy as a
whole.
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