Pretoria - South Africa's high unemployment rate is reflective of a rigid labour market, South African Reserve Bank (Sarb) governor-designate Lesetja Kganyago said on Friday.
"The nature of unemployment in South Africa is emanating from the structural constraints that we are facing and there is pretty little that monetary policy could do to sustainably bring down unemployment," Kganyago, who will take over as central bank governor next week, told a conference in Pretoria.
"There are rigidities in our own labour market."
"The nature of unemployment in South Africa is emanating from the structural constraints that we are facing and there is pretty little that monetary policy could do to sustainably bring down unemployment," Kganyago, who will take over as central bank governor next week, told a conference in Pretoria.
"There are rigidities in our own labour market."
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