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Economic benefits of extended producer responsibility initiatives in South Africa the case of waste tyres

  • Year 2017
  • Organisation University of Cape Town
  • Author(s) Faaiqa Hartley; Tara Caetano; Reza C Daniels
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
Session 6: Towards a sustainable transport sector 
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Sustainable agriculture for a better economy: policy planning and public financing

  • Year 2017
  • Organisation Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries
  • Author(s) Selebogo Leshoro
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
Session 7: Agricultural value chains and sustainability
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Towards labour absorptive, low-carbon economic development: identifying interventions for the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions in key agricultural value chains in the Western Cape

  • Year 2017
  • Organisation GreenCape
  • Author(s) Pieter Frederik Janse van Vuuren; Catherine Pineo; Lauren Basson; Usisipho Gogela
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
Session 7: Agricultural value chains and sustainability
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Growth and development in the sugar to confectionery value chain in Zambia and South Africa

  • Year 2017
  • Organisation ZIPAR; CCRED
  • Author(s) Francis Ziba; Reena das Nair; Maria Nkhonjera
Session 7: Agricultural value chains and sustainability
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Increasing carbon financing: A strategy for climate change mitigation in Uganda

  • Year 2017
  • Organisation Kabale University, Kabale, Uganda
  • Author(s) Jennifer Turyatemba Tumushabe
Session 8: Financing the sustainability transition
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A benchmarking paper on the role of infrastructure in economic development and promoting an inclusive low-carbon future in South Africa

  • Year 2017
  • Organisation TIPS
  • Author(s) Struan Robertson
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
Session 8: Financing the sustainability transition
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Some learnings from the water, food and energy nexus about decolonising the green economy for an Anthropocene Southern Africa

  • Year 2017
  • Organisation Wits School of Governance
  • Author(s) Mike Muller
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
 Session 9: Unpacking the water-energy-food nexus
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Fragmented sectoral approach on water, energy and food in South Africa

  • Year 2017
  • Organisation The Innovation Hub
  • Author(s) Ntombi Radebe-Tsotetsi
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
Session 9: Unpacking the water-energy-food nexus
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Climate change vulnerability and value chain assessment in Egypt and Kenya

  • Year 2017
  • Organisation Sustainability & Resilience (su-re.co)
  • Author(s) Takeshi Takama, Ibnu Budiman, Novelita Wahyu Mondamina, Yudiandra Yuwono, Cynthia J Ismail
Session 9: Unpacking the water-energy-food nexus
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Development towards green growth in Gauteng province: Opportunities and challenges

  • Year 2017
  • Organisation The Innovation Hub
  • Author(s) Ndidzulafhi Nenngwekhulu
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
Session 10: Sub-national experiences and sustainability 
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An assessment of the influence of growth poles on land use transformations in Uganda: Evidence from Kampala Industrial and Business Park

  • Year 2017
  • Organisation Makerere University, Uganda
  • Author(s) Aaron Achoroi
Session 10: Sub-national experiences and sustainability 
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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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Changing structure of the mining industry

  • Year 2016
  • Organisation TIPS
  • Author(s) Dr Neva Makgetla
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
Session 1: Changes in the South African Industry 
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Analysis of investment in mining

  • Year 2016
  • Author(s) Keith Lockwood
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
Session 1: Changes in the South African Industry
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An analysis of ownership in the Mining Charter after 10 years

  • Year 2016
  • Organisation Centre for Economic Development and Transformation
  • Author(s) Duma Gqubule
Session 1: Changes in the South African Industry
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Mining-related national systems of innovation in Southern Africa

  • Year 2016
  • Organisation CCRED, University of Johannesburg
  • Author(s) Dr Judith Fessehaie; Zavareh Rustomjee; Lauralyn Kaziboni
  • Countries and Regions Zimbabwe
Session 2: Mining in Support of Industrial Development
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Upstream and downstream linkages in the mining value chain

  • Year 2016
  • Author(s) Dr Paul Jourdan
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
Session 2: Mining in Support of Industrial Development 
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Compliance with the Mining Charter ten years on: What has been achieved? Implications for South Africa's industrial development

  • Year 2016
  • Organisation Berakah Value International
  • Author(s) Thulani DS Madinginye
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
Session 2: Mining in Support of Industrial Development
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Transparency as transformation? Ghana and the extractive industries transparency initiative

  • Year 2016
  • Organisation Oxford University
  • Author(s) Nelson Oppong
  • Countries and Regions Ghana
Session 3: Financial Flows
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The significance of large cash holdings among JSE-listed firms - Exploring innovation in industrial development for inclusive and transformative development in Africa

  • Year 2016
  • Organisation Kingston University, London; SOAS
  • Author(s) Dr Ewa Karwowski; Pedro Mendes Laureiro
Session 3: Financial Flows 
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Illicit financial flows in the mining sector in South Africa: Implications for industrialisation - Asanda Fotoyi (TIPS)

  • Year 2016
  • Organisation TIPS
  • Author(s) Asanda Fotoyi
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
Sesion 3: Financial Flows
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Extractive industries versus human development? Towards sustainable economic development in Sub-Saharan Africa

  • Year 2016
  • Organisation Rhodes University
  • Author(s) David Fryer and Serge Hadisi
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
Session 4 SustainableGrowth  
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Mining and the environment in South Africa: unpacking the key challenges

  • Year 2016
  • Organisation WWF; TIPS
  • Author(s) Ellen Davies; Georgina Ryan; Gaylor Montmasson-Clair; Manisha Gulati
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
Session 4: Sustainable Growth 
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Sustainable management of natural resources via enhancing knowledge bases: experiences from Latin American countries

  • Year 2016
  • Organisation UNU-MERIT
  • Author(s) Dr Michiko Iizuka; Fernando Vargas; Jakob Baumann
  • Countries and Regions Latin America
Session 4: Sustainable Growth
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Dispersing the middle? Middle class formation in South Africa's manufacturing sector

  • Year 2016
  • Organisation University of Pretoria
  • Author(s) Dr Jason Musyoka
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
Session 5: Mining and Economic Growth
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Mining sector and economic growth in Southern Africa economies: A panel data analysis

  • Year 2016
  • Organisation University of KwaZulu-Natal
  • Author(s) Dr Olwaumi D Awolusi
  • Countries and Regions Southern African Development Community (SADC)
Session 5: Mining and Economic Growth
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The export-led growth hypothesis in Lesotho: A case of the mining industry

  • Year 2016
  • Organisation Central Bank of Lesotho
  • Author(s) Senei Molapo; Moeti Damane
  • Countries and Regions Lesotho
Session 5: Mining and Economic Growth
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