The primary-products economy has come "uncoupled" from the industrial economy.

In the industrial economy itself, production has come "uncoupled" from employment.

Capital movements rather than trade (in both goods and services) have become the driving force of the world economy. The two have not quite come uncoupled, but the link has become loose, and worse, unpredictable.

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Dr Clive Coetzee

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KZN Provincial Treasury

Economist (PhD UKZN)

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