Room to grow

The South African government plans to achieve a higher growth rate by encouraging m assive infrastructural development in the build up to the South African-hosted 2010 Soccer World Cup and by participating in public/private sector partnerships like the Gautrain project, which aims to build extensive railway infrastructure in the country's economic heartland for the first time. Other strategies it is putting in place to achieve this higher growth are sector investment strategies, education and skills development and improving the capacity of the state to deliver economic services. These ef...