While all efforts and attention of the whole government is rightly oriented in protecting the health and saving lives of our citizens, the discussion about the economy is being considered as necessary because, as it can be seen, it will suffer due to the health crisis that has gripped the world.
The implications for monetary policy The question does arise whether all these changes did not make the findings of the De Kock Commission irrelevant. Should monetary policy still hold onto the same objective, and has the task and the functions of the central bank perhaps not also changed over the past few years?