Economic Development

The key challenge that confronts most countries is to grow their economies and thus uplift the lives of their populace. This challenge is most pronounced in developing countries, especially in most unequal economies like South Africa, Brazil, India and such like.

Responding to such a complex challenge requires a good understanding of the factors that underpin this challenge and the construction of well thought policies and strategies in the face of a fast paced globalizing world. At both national and local levels (provincial seen as local), the task is monumental, especially in the case of a globalizing late comer as South Africa, and given depth of the rot of the apartheid economics.

Using both domestic and international experience, Firstsource team provides the services on macro and micro issues at all levels of government. We advise government, state owned enterprises and private sector on these matters.

We specialise in the following:

• Policy development
• Economic strategy development
• Policy monitoring and evaluation
• International trade
• Industrial/ sector strategies
• SMME development strategies