Expanding SARB mandate could impact inflation: Economist
Expanding the Reserve Bank's mandate to include economic growth would be one of the quickest ways to set inflation spiraling out of control.
That's the view of an economist, Mike Schussler.
There have been mixed messages from ANC senior officials aboAut whether or not there was an agreement that government should look at expanding the mandate of the central bank.
It came in a week when it emerged the economy shrunk by 3.2 percent in the first quarter of the year.