Although National Treasury has progressively lowered its GDP forecasts in budgets since 2010, it has still frequently over-estimated future growth. Base effects from the COVID-19 pandemic also led to negative forecast errors in the long-term projections for the 2019 budgets onwards.
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Compiled by Lisa Martin
