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BACKGROUND
Coming out of the Malaysian experience on a ‘Big Fast Results’ methodology, South Africa ran an Operation Phakisa on the ocean economy. Operation Phakisa is a results-driven approach, involving setting clear plans and targets, on-going monitoring of progress and making these results public. The Phakisa looked at the untapped potential of South Africa’s oceans and developed a number of projects to support investment, job creation and economic development. Dr Edwin Ritchken will present on some of the key issues emerging from the Ocean Economy Phakisa.
Aquaculture was identified as a priority sector in the Oceans Economy Phakisa. Aquaculture is the fastest growing food producing sector in the world, and although abalone contributes a relatively small proportion to aquaculture, it is one of the most highly prized, premium seafood delicacies and most sought-after invertebrate. The value of total legal production in the country in 2015 totalled US$73 434 900 and is projected to rise to 135 million US dollars by 2020. The presentation by Gillian Chigumira will outline strategies and policies for the abalone industry to remain economically viable and export orientated.
PRESENTERS
Dr Edwin Ritchken – Research Associate TIPS; on the Oceans Economy
Gillian Chigumira Junior Economist – Trade and Industry TIPS; on the Abalone Industry
Edwin is a research associate with TIPS. He has worked on the Oceans and Mining Phakisas as well as the Electricity War Room. He was previously an adviser to the Minister of Public Enterprises.
Gillian is a researcher in the Industrial Development pillar at TIPS. She has been engaged in industrial policy-related studies in regional industrialisation focusing on agro-processing. Gillian Chigumira is currently completing a Masters in Commerce – focusing on agro-industrialisation. She has previously worked at SAIIA.
- Date Wednesday, 09 March 2016
- Time 10:30 to 12:00
- Venue TIPS Boardroom, 227 Lange St, Nieuw Muckleneuk, Pretoria
- development_dialogue_-_oceans_economy_and_abalone_industry.pdf (1355 Downloads)
TOPIC: PRESENTATION OF THE LATEST QUARTERLY MANUFACTURING BULLETIN
Economist: Trade and Industry (TIPS)
PRESENTER: XHANTI PAYI
Economist: Nascence Advisory & Research
Xhanti Payi has worked as an analyst at Investec Wealth & Investment, an Economist at Stanlib Asset Managers and was a Country Risk Manager at Standard Bank Corporate and Investment Banking. Payi has academic training from the University of Cape Town and the University of London. Currently, Payi is the MD at Nascence Advisory & Research, a strategy consulting and research outfit. He also serves on the advisory panel to the Deputy Minister of Trade and Industry.
With its strong focus on the manufacturing sector as a key driver of balanced development, the NIPF set a framework and an implementation mechanism – in the form of IPAP – for addressing cross-cutting and sector-specific constraints (and optimising opportunities) to put South Africa on a stronger growth path. This presentation explores the intended outcomes of the NIPF and assesses some of the progress (and unintended consequences) of industrial policy implementation since 2008.
PRESENTER: MBOFHOLOWO TSEDU
Assistant Programme Manager: Trade and Industry (TIPS)
Mbofholowo is an Assistant Programme Manager for the Industrial Development pillar at TIPS, primarily focused on trade and industrial policy issues. Mbofholowo has been engaged in numerous industrial policy-related studies including on designation, local content reporting, sector strategies and localisation. He also has been responsible for providing supplementary research support to TIPS’s other pillars. Mbofholowo has an economics degree from the University of Pretoria and is currently completing a MSc programme focused on Industrialisation, Trade and Economic Policy at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland.
- Date Monday, 22 February 2016
- Venue TIPS Boardroom, 227 Lange St, Nieuw Muckleneuk, Pretoria
PRESENTATION FOLLOWED BY A PANEL DISCUSSIONSession 1: 9:30 – 11:15
Tea Session 2: 11:30 – 12:30: Panel Discussion Background: The concept of Global Value Chains (GVC) takes forward the idea that the activities that bring a product from its conception to its end use and beyond are divided among multiple firms and / or spread across multiple geographic locations / countries. This includes activities such as design, production, marketing, distribution and support to the final consumer. GVCs are being promoted by some as the way forward for economic development for developing countries, that value chains need to be invested in, and an enabling environment needs to be created to attract the kind of investment that would promote GVCs. Others are more sceptical about the opportunities for developing countries in these GVCs and the extent to which firms are able to upgrade and move up the value chain. Thomas Farole will introduce the results of recent World Bank research and discuss the relevance and implications of GVCs for South Africa and the wider region. |
RSVP by email: daphney@tips.org.za to confirm attendance
Presenters
Thomas Farole is a Lead Economist at the World Bank, where he works on the intersection between jobs and productivity, trade, and private sector development. He is the author of a number of books and papers on topics such as special economic zones, FDI spillovers in local markets, and the implications of trade for lagging regions. He holds a PhD in economic geography from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).
Faizel Ismail has recently been appointed as Adjunct Professor at the UCT School of Economics. He is also an advisor to the dti on International Trade and Special Envoy on the African Growth and Opportunity Act. He has served as the Ambassador Permanent Representative of South Africa to the WTO (2010-2014).
Ben Turok was a Member of Parliament in South Africa until recently, representing the ruling party, the African National Congress. In the 1994 democratic government, he was first Head of the Commission on the Reconstruction and Development Programme (RDP) in the Gauteng Provincial Cabinet and then moved to Parliament in 1995. He was Co-Chair of the Committee on Ethics and Member’s Interests of both Houses in Parliament. He was a member of the Liberation Movement for decades, was an accused in the 1956 Treason Trial, served three years in prison, and was in exile for 25 years, returning in 1990.
- Date Thursday, 21 January 2016
- Venue Tram Village, 317 Tram Street in Pretoria
- Main Speakers Thomas Farole ; Faizel Ismail ; Ben Turok
PRESENTER: BABA-TAMANA GQUBULE
Economist: Trade & Industrial Policy Strategies
From 2011, the decade-long commodity boom ended, with sharp falls in the international prices of South Africa’s main mining exports – platinum, iron ore, coal and gold. This development dialogue will explore some key implications for South Africa, including the effects on manufacturing, tax revenues, infrastructure investment, and the policy discourse.
PRESENTER: DR NEVA MAKGETLA
Programme Manager: Trade & Industry (TIPS)
Neva Makgetla was previously the Deputy Director General for economic policy in the Economic Development Department. Prior to that she was the Lead Economist for the Development Planning and Implementation division at the Development Bank of Southern Africa. She has worked at a senior level in the Presidency, Department of Public Service and Administration, the Department of Labour as well as in COSATU. She has a PhD in economics and has worked for over 10 years as an economics lecturer.
- Date Wednesday, 18 November 2015
- Venue TIPS Boardroom, 227 Lange St, Nieuw Muckleneuk, Pretoria
- Main Speakers Baba-Tamana Gqubule ; Neva Makgetla
- the_end_of_the_commodity_boom_and_the_sa_economy_november_2015.pdf (1473 Downloads)
- manufacturing_circle_survey_third_quarter_2015.pdf (1198 Downloads)
SPEAKER: UMA ADUSUMILLA
Uma Adusumilli has been heading the Regional Planning department in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA), an institution that has wide scope for Regional Planning & Development, Financing, Institution Building and Co-ordination for the last eleven years. Prior to that, she worked for 15 years as an Urban Planner with the City and Industrial Development Corporation of Maharashtra (CIDCO), a new town planning and development agency, on the project of planning and development of Navi Mumbai newtown.
She holds a Masters Degree in Planning from the School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi, India (1987) and also a M.Sc in Urban Housing Management from IHS, Rotterdam, The Netherlands and the Lund University of Sweden (2003).
She had a career spanning over 26 years across the spectrum of spatial planning with focus on housing, urban and regional planning. In addition to her career in the public sector, she has been involved in research, representing India in the International Comparative Research projects between 1995 and 2004 on housing for the low income groups with emphasis on land supply, regulatory framework and partnerships.
- Date Wednesday, 14 October 2015
- Venue TIPS Boardroom, 227 Lange St, Nieuw Muckleneuk, Pretoria
- Main Speakers UMA ADUSUMILLA
Public seminars held during APORDE 2015
1. AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT AND THE POLITICAL ECONOMY CHALLENGES OF INDUSTRIAL POLICY
Speakers: Christopher Cramer and Mushtaq Khan
Date: Wednesday 2 September 2015
Time: From 18:30
Venue: CCRED Seminar Room, 2nd Floor, 5 Sturdee Avenue, Rosebank
Organised by the Centre for Competition, Regulation and Economic Development (CCRED)
For more information download African development and the political economy challenges of industrial policy
2. INNOVATION AND INDUSTRIAL POLICY
Speakers: Ha-Joon Chang; Neva Makgetla; Imraan Patel
Date: Thursday 3 September 2015
Time: 09:30 – 13:00 (followed by lunch)
Venue: Kingdom Caterers, 317 Tram Street, Brooklyn, Pretoria
Organised by the Department of Trade and Industry
For more information download Innovation and industrial policy
3. MINERAL RESOURCES AND INDUSTRIAL POLICY
Speaker: Paul Jourdan
Date: Thursday 3 September 2014
Time: From 18h30
Venue: IDC Conference Centre; 19 Fredman Drive, Sandton
Co-host: Industrial Development Corporation (IDC)
For more information download Mineral resources and industrial policy
4. LABOUR AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
Speakers: Ben Fine and Nicolas Pons-Vignon
Date: Monday 7 September 2015
Time: From 18h30
Venue: SEBS seminar suite, 1st Floor – New Commerce Building, West Campus, Wits University
Co-host: Independent World of Work
For more information download Labour and economic development
5. CHINA, INDIA AND THE GLOBAL ECONOMY AFTER THE CRISIS
Speaker: Jayati Ghosh
Date: Tuesday 8 September 2015
Time: From 18h00 (refreshments from 17:30)
Venue: C-Ring 315, Auckland Park Kingsway Campus, University of Johannesburg
Co-host: University of Johannesburg, Department of Economics
For more information download China, India and the global economy after the crisis
6. TRANSFER PRICING AND TRADE MISPRICING
Speakers: Jonathan di John, Paul Jourdan and Kathy Nicolaou-Manias
Date: Wednesday 9 September 2015
Time: 09:00 – 12:00 (followed by lunch)
Venue: Southern Sun Pretoria, corner Steve Biko and Pretorius Street, Arcadia
Co-host: TIPS
For more information download Transfer pricing and trade mispricing
Presentations:
Jonathan Di John: Transfer Pricing in Export Processing Zones
Paul Jourdan: Transfer Pricing in Extractive Industries
Kathy Nicolaou-Manias: Understanding Trade Mispricing in South Africa
- Date Wednesday, 02 September 2015
- development_dialogue_seminar_series_with_aporde_2015_september.pdf (1145 Downloads)
Insights into the manufacturing sector: Outcomes of the latest quarterly Manufacturing Bulletin
Baba-Tamana Gqubule has a Masters in Development Studies from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London and a Bachelor of Economics Honours degree from Rhodes University. She has experience as a Policy Analyst at the Economic Development Department. She was involved in developing policies aimed at broadening participation in the economy with a specific focus on conducting research to inform the department's strategy to increase the participation of womenin the economy.
Estimating disaggregated sector employment multipliers for the City of Johannesburg
In addition to his consulting work, Keith is an adjunct faculty member of the Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) and regularly makes presentations to some of South Africa's leading corporations.
Presentation: City of Johannesburg
Estimated Employment Multipliers for the City of Johannesburg
- Date Friday, 21 August 2015
- Venue TIPS Boardroom, 227 Lange St, Nieuw Muckleneuk, Pretoria
Repositioning electricity planning at the core: An evaluation of South Africa's Integrated Resource Plan
Gaylor Montmasson-Clair
Background: Energy and electricity issues in particular have recently been high on the South African agenda. Beyond immediate near-term considerations, reviewing the current electricity planning process is both a timely and necessary exercise. This review, based on an internationally-recognised framework developed by the World Resources Institute and Prayas Energy Group, unpacks the key pillars of an Integrated Resource Plan (IRP) and reviews South Africa's performance. The objective is to provide a comprehensive overview of the key elements of successful electricity planning and to use this framework to reflect on the country's opportunities and challenges for optimal planning and implementation.
TOPIC: Electricity pricing and economic development in South Africa: The real tough choices
Dr Neva Makgetla
Background: From the 1980s, growth in South Africa has depended in large part on low-cost, coal-fuelled electricity. This trajectory is no longer viable due to the rising costs of both new investment and climate change. TIPS undertook a systematic assessment of options for managing the cost and economic impact of various options for adapting to the new realities of electricity in both the short and long term.
- Date Thursday, 09 July 2015
- Venue TIPS Boardroom, 227 Lange St, Nieuw Muckleneuk, Pretoria
- Main Speakers GAYLOR MONTMASSON-CLAIR, Assistant Programme Manager, Sustainable Growth, TIPS. DR NEVA MAKGETLA, Programme Manager, Trade and Industrial Policy, TIPS
This presentation will explore the role of Bilateral Investment Treaties (BITs) in Investment Promotion for South Africa and rest of the world. Recent global trends have indicated a decline in the ratification of new BITs with a number of countries (including South Africa) reviewing and cancelling treaties that have been in place for decades. The most recent termination of a treaty was between South Africa and Germany, which came into effect on 22 October 2014. The presentation will also seek to identify the reasons for these cancellations and consider new developments in investment policy formulation.
- Date Tuesday, 17 February 2015
- Venue TIPS Boardroom, 227 Lange St, Nieuw Muckleneuk, Pretoria
- Main Speakers Sithembiso Mtanga, Assistant Programme Manager: Trade and Industry, TIPS
- investment_promotion_and_the_role_of_bits.pdf (1120 Downloads)
The quarterly manufacturing bulletin is an initiative of the Manufacturing Circle. It serves to provide an analysis of trends in the South African manufacturing sector. The focus of this development dialogue will be to present the third quarter manufacturing bulletin with the aim to inform policy and facilitate discussion around strategies to support the manufacturing sector in ways that support mployment and equitable economic growth.
- Date Tuesday, 17 February 2015
- Venue TIPS Boardroom, 227 Lange St, Nieuw Muckleneuk, Pretoria
- Main Speakers Baba-Tamana Gqubule, Economist: Trade and Industry, TIPS.
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ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Jamie Simpson is an economic and management consultant with 25 years experience related to port planning, infrastructure investment and city-region economic development. He has extensive experience as a Project Director/Manager leading major projects and working with governments and senior executives on strategic planning, investment plans and economic transformation – in Europe, Asia, Africa and North America. He has provided advisory support on a range of port market studies and due diligence for the leading port operators (HPH, DPW, PSA, APMT, ICTSI, China Merchants) and financial institutions (HSBC, BoC, B&B Infrastructure, JPMorgan, Standard and Chartered) as part of their transaction advice.
Jamie was retained by Hong Kong Government and worked with the Port Development Board (Port Development Council), the public-private partnership that includes the world's leading port operators, logistics and shipping lines, for over 10 years in a lead advisor role on port strategy and investment. He has acted as Lead Advisor to governments/ Regional Development Agencies on linking city-region development strategies to port/logistics development – including Felixstowe, Southampton, Teleport and London Gateway in the UK. He has worked with the World Bank, IFC, Asian Development Bank, UK DFID and the Private Infrastructure Development Group (PIDG). Jamie is the Chairperson of the Expert Evaluation Panel of the Cities Alliance Catalytic Fund – a small grant window aimed at funding innovative ideas and approaches related to urbanisation.
Presentation:
Article Front page of The Mercury and Business Report (20 February, 2015):
See research paper for related research on increasing port efficinccy and the important role that ports play in economic development. This falls under the TIPS Small Grant Research Papers initiative and is based on Jack Dryer's work for his masters thesis.
Is Durban's Port Expansion necessary?
- Date Monday, 16 February 2015
- Venue TIPS Boardroom, 227 Lange St, Nieuw Muckleneuk, Pretoria
- Main Speakers Jamie Simpson
- Date Tuesday, 02 September 2014
The presentation will explore the viability of shale gas in South Africa from an economic lens. By focusing on issues such as geology, decline rates and breakeven costs of wells and exploring the relationship between gas prices and cash-flows, the presentation will seek to answer the core question of whether a shale revolution would occur in South Africa. In doing so, it will explore questions around the longevity of a shale revolution, the price at which shale gas is commercially viable, and the economic lessons from the US shale revolution. Finally, it will look at the outstanding research questions pertaining to economic and investment issues related to shale gas.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Saliem Fakir is the Head of the Living Planet Unit at the World Wildlife Fund South Africa. The Unit's work is focused on identifying ways to manage a transition to a low-carbon economy. Saliem has previously served as senior lecturer at the Department of Public Administration and Planning and Associate Director for the Center for Renewable and Sustainable Energy at the University of Stellenbosch, where he taught a course on renewable energy policy and financing of renewable energy projects.
He has also previously worked for Lereko Energy (Pty) Ltd (2006), an investment company focusing on project development and financial arrangements for renewable energy, biofuels, waste and water sectors. He also served as Director of the World Conservation Union South Africa (IUCN-SA) office for eight years (1998-2005). Prior to the IUCN he was the Manager for the Natural Resources and Management Unit at the Land and Agriculture Policy Center.
Saliem served on a number of Boards. Between, 2002-2005, he served as a chair of the Board of the National Botanical Institute. He also served on the board of the Fair Trade in Tourism Initiative, and was a member of the Technical Advisory Committee of the Global Reporting Initiative, based in Amsterdam. He currently serves on Boards of GreenCape, Fair-Trade Label South Africa, Center for Renewable and Energy Studies, and Center for Environmental Rights.
He is a regular columnist for the South African Center for Civil Society and Engineering News.
Saliem received a Senior Executive Management course at Harvard University in 2000, a Master's in Environmental Science from Wye College, London, and a B.Sc. with honours in molecular biology from WITS.
- Date Thursday, 02 October 2014
- Venue TIPS Boardroom, 227 Lange St, Nieuw Muckleneuk, Pretoria
- Main Speakers Saliem Fakir, Head of Living Planet Unit, World Wildlife Fund South Africa
- tips_shale_gas_development_dialogue_2_october_2014.pdf (941 Downloads)
Speaker – Professor Stephanie Seguino
How Economies Grow: Alice Amsden and the
Real World Economics of Late Industrialisation
4 September 2014 - 18:30 for 19:00 (light dinner served)
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Stephanie Seguino is Professor of Economics at the University of Vermont, USA; Professorial Research Associate at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London; and Research Scholar at the Political Economy Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts/Amherst. Prior to obtaining a Ph.D. from American University, she served as economist in Haiti for several years in the pre- and post-Baby Doc era. Her current research explores the relationship between inequality, growth and development. A major focus of that work explores the effect of gender equality on macroeconomic outcomes. She has also examined the gender and race effects of contractionary monetary policy. She is an instructor in the African Program for Rethinking Development Economics (APORDE), Associate Editor of Feminist Economics and Journal of Human Development and Capabilities, and a member of the editorial board of Review of Keynesian Economics, as well as past president of the International Association for Feminist Economics. More recently, she was guest editor of a special issue of Feminist Economics on the global economic crisis. She has worked with a wide variety of international organisations and trade unions including the UNDP, UNRISD, World Bank, AFL-CIO and ITUC.
Alice H. Amsden, an expert in economic development who served as the Barton L. Weller Professor of Political Economy in MIT's Department of Urban Studies and Planning, died suddenly on March 14 at her home in Cambridge. She was 68. A prolific scholar, Amsden wrote extensively about the process of industrialisation in emerging economies, particularly in Asia. Her work frequently emphasised the importance of the state as a creator of economic growth, and challenged the idea that globalisation had produced generally uniform conditions in which emerging economies could find a one-size-fits-all path to prosperity.
- Date Thursday, 04 September 2014
- Venue SEBS seminar suite, 1st Floor ???????? New Commerce Building, West Campus, Wits University, Johannesburg
- presentation_stephanie_seguino_amsden_memorial_lecture.pdf (893 Downloads)