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Private equity as an appropriate funding mechanism to spur economic growth in mid-sized South African companies

  • Year 2018
  • Organisation 27Four
  • Author(s) Fatima Vawda and Rory Ord
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
Session 5: Finance for SMEs

The role of stokvels in the economic transformation of Ethekwini municipality

  • Year 2018
  • Organisation University of KwaZulu-Natal
  • Author(s) Mduduzi JK Bophela and Njabulo Khumalo
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
Session 6: Fostering financial inclusion
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What is the relationship between manufacturing firms and banks in South Africa? Does it support industrial development?

  • Year 2018
  • Organisation TIPS
  • Author(s) Saul Levin
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
Session 6: Fostering financial inclusion
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Central banking and sustainable development in Sub-Saharan Africa?

  • Year 2018
  • Organisation SOAS
  • Author(s) Simon Dikau
  • Countries and Regions Africa
Session 6: Fostering financial inclusion
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Promoting industrial cleantech investment through initiatives creating efficiencies in the sector ecosystem

  • Year 2018
  • Organisation GreenCape
  • Author(s) Aman Baboolal and Jack Radmore
Session 7: Financing a sustainable development path

Mobilising private finance for climate action on South Africa: an analysis of public interventions in renewable energy and energy efficiency

  • Year 2018
  • Organisation TIPS
  • Author(s) Gaylor Montmasson-Clair
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
Session 7: Financing a sustainable development path 

Leveraging impact investment for transformative impact around access to clean and safe energy in Eastern and Southern Africa

  • Year 2018
  • Organisation WWF South Africa
  • Author(s) Louise Scholtz and Manisha Gulati
Session 7: Financing a sustainable development path
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Aligning formal education and skills development for industrial development

  • Year 2018
  • Organisation Department of Forestry and Fisheries
  • Author(s) Selebogo Leshoro
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
Session 8: The relationship between skills development and industrial policy
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Structural transformation in South Africa: Towards a smart open economy for all

  • Year 2018
  • Organisation CCRED
  • Author(s) Pamela Mondliwa
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
Session 8: The relationship between skills development and industrial policy 
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The interplay between industrial policy and financial support, including incentives

  • Year 2018
  • Organisation AHIA
  • Author(s) Tiego Nwokoro
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
 Session 9: Financing industrial development, policy and pactice
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Policy space for industrial policy in the global era: A comparison of national public development banking in Brazil and South Africa

  • Year 2018
  • Organisation London School of Economics (UK)
  • Author(s) Natalya Naqvi
  • Countries and Regions Brazil, South Africa
Session 9: Financing industrial development, policy and pactice
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Financing of productivity enhancement in industrial development: Lessons for the Workplace Challenge initiative

  • Year 2018
  • Organisation Department of Trade and Industry
  • Author(s) Jocelyn Vass and Lindiwe Hayo
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
Session 9: Financing industrial development, policy and pactice
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Sunday, 03 March 2019

The role of plantation forestry for promoting sustainability in South Africa

  • Year 2018
  • Organisation TIPS and GEC
  • Author(s) Struan R. Robertson
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
This paper assesses opportunities in the plantation forestry industry and the role the sector can play in promoting sustainable outcomes in terms of reaping socioeconomicbenefits and safeguarding positive environmental spillover benefits in carbon sequestration,substitute habitat, and conservation. It forms part of a series of papers aimed at providing a barometer of…
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Published in Green Economy Coalition
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Thursday, 21 February 2019

Inclusive business as employment generator in rural settlements

  • Year 2019
  • Organisation TIPS
  • Author(s) Wytske O. Chamberlain
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
The aim of this report is to identify how commercial businesses can generate employment opportunities in rural areas through inclusive business models. 
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Published in Inequality and Economic Inclusion
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Monday, 26 November 2018

Working paper: A developmental regionalism approach to the AfCFTA

  • Year 2018
  • Organisation TIPS
  • Author(s) Dr Faizel Ismail: Adjunct Professor Faculty of Law School of Economics, and Graduate School of Business, UCT, and TIPS Research Fellow
  • Countries and Regions Africa
This paper argues that adopting a “developmental regionalism” approach to trade integration provides the best prospects for the African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA) to catalyse the process of transformative industrial development, cross-border investment and democracy, governance, peace and security in Africa. It also looks at the progress being made…
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Published in Trade and Industry
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Monday, 12 November 2018

The Johannesburg health cluster

  • Year 2018
  • Author(s) Trade & Industrial Policy Strategies (TIPS)
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
This research report is focused on the healthcare sector in the City of Johannesburg (CoJ), in particular the medical devices sector and delves deeper to understand the problems faced by the sector and what would be required to leverage the sector for domestic growth and import substitution. The City of…
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Published in Trade and Industry
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Tuesday, 09 October 2018

Nature in South Africa's transition to sustainability: A stocktake

  • Year 2018
  • Organisation TIPS and GEC
  • Author(s) Shakespear Mudombi
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
This policy paper reviews the valuation, protection and management of nature in South Africa. It forms part of a series of papers aimed at providing a barometer of South Africa’s transition to sustainable development. 
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Published in Green Economy Coalition
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Sunday, 02 September 2018

Green jobs: Unlocking green jobs in South Africa - A catalytic intervention: Synthesis report

  • Year 2018
  • Organisation WWF South Africa and TIPS
UNLOCKING GREEN JOBS IN SOUTH AFRICA The Unlocking Green Jobs: A Catalytic Intervention was a two-year initiative and collaboration between the World Wide Fund for Nature, South Africa (WWF-SA) and Trade & Industrial Policy Strategies (TIPS). Published reports include a synthesis report, Unlocking green jobs in South Africa: A catalytic intervention,…
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Friday, 24 August 2018

Global water and sanitation market dynamics: Implications for South Africa’s industrial development

  • Year 2018
  • Organisation TIPS; Water Research Commission; Department of Trade and Industry
  • Author(s) Gaylor Montmasson-Clair
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
These three reports are part of a tri-partite initiative of the Department of Trade and Industry (the dti), the Water Research Commission and TIPS on the development and growth of the water and sanitation industry in South Africa. Global water and sanitation market dynamics: Implications for South Africa’s industrial development…
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Published in Sustainable Growth
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Friday, 24 August 2018

Forward-looking approach to next generation sanitation and industrial development in South Africa

  • Year 2018
  • Organisation TIPS; Water Research Commission; Department of Trade and Industry
  • Author(s) Shakespear Mudombi
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
These three reports are part of a tri-partite initiative of the Department of Trade and Industry (the dti), the Water Research Commission and TIPS on the development and growth of the water and sanitation industry in South Africa. Forward-looking approach to next generation sanitation and industrial development in South Africa…
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Friday, 24 August 2018

Desalination in South Africa: panacea or peril for industrial development?

  • Year 2018
  • Organisation TIPS; Water Research Commission; Department of Trade and Industry
  • Author(s) Muhammed Patel
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
These three reports are part of a tri-partite initiative of the Department of Trade and Industry (the dti), the Water Research Commission and TIPS on the development and growth of the water and sanitation industry in South Africa. Desalination in South Africa: panacea or peril for industrial development? This paper…
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Published in Sustainable Growth
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Friday, 10 August 2018

Green jobs: Essential Amathole - A case study of unlocking green jobs in the bioprospecting sector

  • Year 2018
  • Organisation WWF South Africa and TIPS
  • Author(s) Daryl McLean (Rhodes University, Environmental Learning Research Centre); Shakespear Mudombi (TIPS)
UNLOCKING GREEN JOBS IN SOUTH AFRICA The Unlocking Green Jobs: A Catalytic Intervention was a two-year initiative and collaboration between the World Wide Fund for Nature, South Africa (WWF-SA) and Trade & Industrial Policy Strategies (TIPS). Published reports include a synthesis report, Unlocking green jobs in South Africa: A catalytic intervention,…
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Friday, 10 August 2018

Green jobs: Protecting and unlocking jobs through water stewardship - A case study linked to the Umbogintwini Industrial Complex, eThekwini

  • Year 2018
  • Organisation WWF South Africa and TIPS
  • Author(s) Mike Ward (Creating Sustainable Value) and Shakespear Mudombi (TIPS)
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
UNLOCKING GREEN JOBS IN SOUTH AFRICA The Unlocking Green Jobs: A Catalytic Intervention was a two-year initiative and collaboration between the World Wide Fund for Nature, South Africa (WWF-SA) and Trade & Industrial Policy Strategies (TIPS). Published reports include a synthesis report, Unlocking green jobs in South Africa: A catalytic intervention,…
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Friday, 10 August 2018

Green jobs: Unlocking and retaining jobs in the alien vegetation added value chain through industrial symbiosis - Case study on wood pellets

  • Year 2018
  • Organisation WWF South Africa and TIPS
  • Author(s) Nicola Jenkin (Pinpoint Sustainability) and Shakespear Mudombi (TIPS)
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
UNLOCKING GREEN JOBS IN SOUTH AFRICA The Unlocking Green Jobs: A Catalytic Intervention was a two-year initiative and collaboration between the World Wide Fund for Nature, South Africa (WWF-SA) and Trade & Industrial Policy Strategies (TIPS). Published reports include a synthesis report, Unlocking green jobs in South Africa: A catalytic intervention,…
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Friday, 10 August 2018

Sustainability Transitions in South Africa

  • Year 2018
  • Organisation Routledge Studies in Sustainability
Sustainability Transitions in South Africa - Edited by Najma Mohamed     TIPS collaborates on book investigating South Africa’s progress in transitioning to a just and sustainable development pathway South Africa’s progress in transitioning to a low-carbon, resource-efficient and pro-employment development path is the focus of a book that brings together…
Published in External Publications
Friday, 10 August 2018

Inequality in South Africa

  • Year 2018
  • Organisation New South African Review
  • Author(s) Neva Makgetla
TIPS Senior Economist Neva Makgetla has a chapter on Inequality in South Africa in the New South African Review 6: The crisis of inequality. Essays in this volume demonstrate how the consequences of inequality extend throughout society, crippling the quest for social justice, polarising the politics, skewing economic outcomes and bringing…
Published in External Publications
Friday, 10 August 2018

South Africa’s renewable energy experience: Inclusive growth lessons

  • Year 2017
  • Organisation Centre for Competition, Regulation and Economic Development (CCRED
  • Author(s) Gaylor Montmasson-Clair and Reena das Nair
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
Competition Law and Economic Regulation : Addressing Market Power in Southern Africa TIPS Senior Economist: Sustainable Growth Gaylor Montmasson-Clair has co-authored a chapter with Reena das Nair of the Centre for Competition, Regulation and Economic Development (CCRED) on South Africa’s renewable energy experience: Inclusive growth lessons in this volume of papers selected…
Published in External Publications
Sunday, 24 June 2018

The Green Economy Barometer 2018 South Africa

  • Year 2018
  • Author(s) AM Amis (AfriCGE), G Montmasson-Clair (TIPS), E Benson (GEC), S Lugogo (AfriCGE)
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
5 out of 10 for South Africa’s transition to a green economy The South Africa Green Economy Barometer 2018 provides a snapshot of the transition to a fair, green economy. It is drawn from evidence of policy progress as well as the insights of civil society organisations who are tracking the transition…
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Published in Green Economy Coalition
Sunday, 17 June 2018

Community Work Programme - background materials

  • Year 2018
These background materials on the Community Work Programme were prepared as part of induction training for non-profit agencies appointed to implement the CWP, and as an introduction for other stakeholders. The materials were originally developed for the Department of Co-operative Governance by TIPS in 2013. They have been partly updated…
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Published in Community Work Programme
Thursday, 03 May 2018

A South African strategy for trade in environmental goods

  • Year 2018
  • Organisation TIPS and GEC
  • Author(s) Christopher Wood
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
The rapid growth of trade in environmental goods creates opportunities for South Africa, but is complicated by rising global protectionism, which demands a pro-active strategy to support South African exporters. This policy paper discusses a possible South African strategy for trade in environmental goods. It forms part of a series…
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