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24 September 2017
Estimating publicly-mobilised private finance for climate action: A South African case study
- Year 2017
- Organisation OECD Environment Working Papers, No. 125
- Author(s) Lauren McNicoll, Raphaël Jachnik (OECD), Gaylor Montmasson-Clair and Shakespear Mudombi, Trade & Industrial Policy Strategies (TIPS)
This study estimates and analyses publicly-mobilised private finance for climate action in South Africa, between 2010 and 2015. The mobilisation effect of public climate finance on private finance is first estimated through an analysis and attribution of project-level co-finance data. A pilot-methodology (the investor perspective) then expands the analysis to also incorporate the…
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16 February 2017
The AGOA Extension and Enhancement Act of 2015, the SA–US AGOA negotiations and the Future of AGOA
- Year 2017
- Organisation World Trade Review
- Author(s) Dr Faizel Ismail
The African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) is a non-reciprocal preferential trade programme that the US offers to 49 sub-Saharan African countries. President Obama's decision to extend AGOA, which was set to expire at the end of September 2015, for another 10 years (2015 to 2025), was highly controversial. The…
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07 February 2017
The changing global trade architecture: Implications for Africa's regional integration and development
- Year 2017
- Organisation Journal of World Trade 51, no. 1
- Author(s) Dr Faizel Ismail
This paper argues that the dramatic changes in the trade architecture of the world during the first decade of the new millennium have created both opportunities and challenges for Africa’s development. African countries need to develop proactive strategies to harness these new changes and use them to advance the integration…
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05 October 2016
Making the best of AGOA through export-promotion policies
- Year 2016
- Organisation Integrating Africa: AfDB Blog
- Author(s) Christopher Wood, TIPS Economist
- Countries and Regions Africa
Ten years is a very short time in the global economy, and by all accounts a decade is all that is left of the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA). While the United States’ unilateral preferential access programme for Africa has been reauthorized three times since it began in 2000,…
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23 July 2016
The changing global trade architecture: Implications for Sub-Saharan Africa's development
- Year 2016
- Organisation Commonwealth Trade Hope Topics Series Issue 131
- Author(s) Faizel Ismail
- Countries and Regions Africa
What are the main changes in the global trading architecture over the past 15 years? How have these changes impacted on Africa’s economic development and the nature of trading relations between Africa and its traditional developed country partners, the European Union, the UK and the USA, and its main developing country partner, China? What are the implications…
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- Year 2014
- Organisation Journal of Economic and Financial Sciences, September 2014
- Author(s) Gaylor Montmasson-Clair; Georgina Ryan
South Africa's Renewable Energy Independent Power Producer (REIPP) procurement programme is hailed worldwide as a model for renewable energy procurement. Its success is far from experimental and haphazard and points directly to lessons acquired prior to, and during, the launch and running of the programme. This article explores the journey…
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29 November 2014
The Impacts of Social and Economic Inequality on Economic Development in South Africa
- Year 2014
- Organisation UNDP
- Author(s) Kate Philip, Mbofholowo Tsedu and Meshack Zwane
- Countries and Regions South Africa
Twenty years after the end of apartheid South Africa is a different place. It has a well-institutionalized democracy. Significant gains have been made in social equity and in reducing extreme poverty. Yet poverty, unemployment and inequality remain South Africa's most pressing problems. Social change and enhanced access to rights have…
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10 September 2014
How Economies Grow: Alice Amsden and the Real World Economics of Late Industrialization
- Year 2014
- Organisation TIPS; WITS
- Author(s) Stephanie Seguino
- Countries and Regions South Africa
Paper presented at the Alice Amsden Memorial Lecture, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa as part of the African Programme on Rethinking Development Economics 2014 public lectures. Memorial lecture co-hosted by TIPS. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Stephanie Seguino is Professor of Economics at the University of Vermont, USA; Professorial Research Associate…
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01 March 2014
Challenges to Regional Infrastructure Development
- Year 2012
- Organisation This paper was funded by and prepared for the Development Bank of Southern Africa in 2012.
- Author(s) Ellen Hagerman (TIPS Research Fellow)
This report is a survey of the on-going challenges to the development and implementation of regional infrastructure projects in Southern Africa with a specific focus on the North-South Corridor. The report incorporates both information and analysis based on consultations with about 50 stakeholders working on, or associated with, regional infrastructure…
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03 February 2014
Fighting corruption and promoting competition
- Year 2014
- Organisation OECD Global Forum on Competition paper by David Lewis, Corruption Watch and Reena Das Nair, TIPS
- Author(s) David Lewis, Reena DasNair
This paper examines the interface between corruption and competition. The forms of corruption looked at concern the decision-making powers of public officials and elected representatives that are located at the interface between the public sector and private sector (that is, the business sector), or what may be otherwise characterised as…
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