{"id":158197,"date":"2024-05-28T17:48:13","date_gmt":"2024-05-28T17:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=158197"},"modified":"2024-05-28T17:48:13","modified_gmt":"2024-05-28T17:48:13","slug":"news24-opinion-managing-government-debt-any-old-rule-wont-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=158197","title":{"rendered":"News24 | OPINION | Managing government debt: Any old rule won&#8217;t do"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With South Africa\u2019s debt now officially at 73.9% of GDP, Treasury exploring the proposal of a binding fiscal anchor is a welcome sign of intervention. But not all fiscal rules are created equal, says Marie Antelme.<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.news24.com\/fin24\/opinion\/opinion-managing-government-debt-any-old-rule-wont-do-20240505\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With South Africa\u2019s debt now officially at 73.9% of GDP, Treasury exploring the proposal of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":158198,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/158197-news24-opinion-managing-government-debt-any-old-rule-wont-do.jpg",1024,683,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/158197-news24-opinion-managing-government-debt-any-old-rule-wont-do-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/158197-news24-opinion-managing-government-debt-any-old-rule-wont-do-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/158197-news24-opinion-managing-government-debt-any-old-rule-wont-do-768x512.jpg",640,427,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/158197-news24-opinion-managing-government-debt-any-old-rule-wont-do.jpg",640,427,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/158197-news24-opinion-managing-government-debt-any-old-rule-wont-do.jpg",1024,683,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/158197-news24-opinion-managing-government-debt-any-old-rule-wont-do.jpg",1024,683,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/158197-news24-opinion-managing-government-debt-any-old-rule-wont-do.jpg",1024,683,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/158197-news24-opinion-managing-government-debt-any-old-rule-wont-do-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/158197-news24-opinion-managing-government-debt-any-old-rule-wont-do-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=40\" rel=\"category\">Africa<\/a>","tag_info":"Africa","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=158197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158197\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/158198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=158197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=158197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=158197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}