On the economic side, the globalisation of the world financial markets is a process that countries such as South Africa cannot stay out of. Operators in these global markets are defining their own economic criteria for the assessment and comparison of countries where they can invest huge amounts of funds administered by them.
If you fire up the printing presses to fend off unemployment, you will end up mired in high inflation and high unemployment. Events in the 1970s provided a vivid illustration of this phenomenon.