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19 November 2020

Future-proofing the plastics value chain in Southern Africa

WIDER Working Paper 2020/148 This working paper, Future-proofing the plastics value chain in Southern Africa, forms part of the project: Southern Africa – Towards Inclusive Economic Development (SA-TIED) Abstract Plastics are ubiquitous across the region and play an important role in multiple industries. Most plastic products are based on a value chain…
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19 November 2020

Illicit financial flows, tax havens and industrial development in South Africa

  • Year 2020
  • Organisation TIPS
  • Author(s) Nishal Robb
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
Illicit financial flows (IFFs) of various kinds, and the role of tax havens in facilitating these flows, have come under increased scrutiny since the global financial crisis of 2007-2009. A series of high-profile scandals and leaks of sensitive information about how corporates and individuals organise their financial affairs to escape…
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09 July 2020

Initial considerations for the creation of an inter-regional industrial hemp value chain between Malawi and South Africa

WIDER Working Paper 2020/23 This working paper, Initial considerations for the creation of an inter-regional industrial hemp value chain between Malawi and South Africa, forms part of the project: Southern Africa – Towards Inclusive Economic Development (SA-TIED) Abstract Interest in industrial hemp has revived in the past 20 years. Malawi is considering…
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19 May 2020

The electrotechnical industry regional value chain in Southern Africa A case for South Africa and Zambia

  • Year 2019
  • Organisation TIPS and ZIPAR
  • Author(s) Sithembiso Mtanga (TIPS), Francis Ziba (ZIPAR) and Bernard Tembo (ZIPAR)
  • Countries and Regions Zambia
The Southern African Development Community (SADC) member states have placed industrial development at the core of the region’s integrated development agenda. This report by Trade & Industrial Policy Strategies (TIPS) and the Zambia Institute for Policy Analysis & Research (ZIPAR) is part of a programme that seeks to identify existing…
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15 April 2020

Regional value chains and industrialisation: The Southern African experience

  • Year 2020
  • Organisation TIPS
  • Author(s) Neva Makgetla and Saul Levin (TIPS)
  • Countries and Regions Southern African Development Community (SADC)
Greater regional integration would support economic diversification and industrialisation in Southern Africa by expanding markets for consumers and capital goods as well as drawing together capacities from different of countries. It would, however, require a greater degree of specialisation between nations to permit economies of scale. In this context, the…
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21 March 2020

Regulatory burdens on small business: Options for improvement

  • Year 2017
  • Organisation TIPS
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
To assist in improving the regulatory environment for small business, the Department of Performance, Monitoring and Evaluation and Department of Small Business Development requested the Employment Promotion Programme contract Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies to conduct a study on the national regulatory burdens on small business. The broad objectives of…
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05 December 2019

Decreasing import customs fraud in the context of customs modernisation

  • Year 2019
  • Organisation For the Department of Trade and Industry
  • Author(s) Sandy Lowitt (TIPS)
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
Customs are charged with ensuring maximum trade facilitation and decreasing the time and costs associated with clearing consignments into and out of the country. Non-compliance and customs fraud are, however, on the rise through multiple channels including misdeclaration of goods, under and overvaluation, misrepresentation of country of origin, round tripping,…
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22 October 2019

Assessment of demand in agro-processing machinery in the SADC region: A case study of the maize-milling machinery value chain in South Africa and Zambia

  • Year 2019
  • Organisation UNU-WIDER
  • Author(s) Gillian Chigumira (TIPS)
WIDER Working Paper 2019/70 This working paper, Assessment of demand in agro-processing machinery in the SADC region: A case study of the maize-milling machinery value chain in South Africa and Zambia, forms part of the project: Southern Africa – Towards Inclusive Economic Development (SA-TIED) Abstract The SADC Industrialization Strategy and Roadmap…
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13 October 2019

Charity begins at home - The political economy of non-tariff barriers to trade in Southern Africa

  • Year 2019
  • Organisation UNU-WIDER
  • Author(s) Tracy Ledger (TIPS)
  • Countries and Regions Southern African Development Community (SADC)
WIDER Working Paper 2019/61 This working paper, Charity begins at home The political economy of non-tariff barriers to trade in Southern Africa, forms part of the project: Southern Africa – Towards Inclusive Economic Development (SA-TIED) Abstract Increased intra-regional trade in southern Africa will have a positive impact on eonomic growth. However, this…
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25 July 2019

Moving up the copper value chain in Southern Africa

WIDER Working Paper 2019/38 This working paper, Moving up the copper value chain in Southern Africa, forms part of the project: Southern Africa – Towards Inclusive Economic Development (SA-TIED) Abstract t: Interest in industrial hemp has revived in the past 20 years. Malawi is considering legalizing the cultivation of industrial hemp as an…
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