Gill Marcus: The outlook for the South African economy in a challenging global environment Address by Ms Gill Marcus, Governor of the South African Reserve Bank, to the Distinguished Speakers Seminar, European Economics and Financial Centre, London, 8 April 2014. *  *  *  Thank you for the opportunity to address you this afternoon.
This work is underway, and many non-traditional datasets have already been found, but it is safe to assume a lot more can be done in this regard. Furthermore, we need to relax our assumptions about the extent to which we can rely on official statistics and accounting. Even if approved, it will take years until we have adequate environmental accounting on which to rely.