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Tuesday, 28 March 2017

Current heterodox industrial policy thinking: A muting of aspirations or sound, pragmatic suggestions?

  • Year 2017
  • Organisation TIPS
  • Author(s) Sandy Lowitt
The paper considers new heterodox theoretical contributions to the industrial policy debate in developing countries. Specifically it focuses on the challenge of “getting industrial policy right in circumstances where the country is run by flawed leaders presiding over a politically weak and internally fragmented state” (Change 2010). The paper covers…
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Thursday, 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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Tuesday, 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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Thursday, 05 January 2017

Advancing the Continental Free Trade Area (CFTA) and Agenda 2063 in the context of the changing architecture of global trade

  • Year 2016
  • Organisation TIPS
  • Author(s) Dr Faizel Ismail
  • Countries and Regions Africa
This paper reviews the state of play of the African regional integration agenda, inspired by the vision of the Abuja Treaty and Agenda 2063. It argues that the Continental Free Trade Area (CFTA) negotiators should adopt a “development integration” approach to ensure that the outcome of the CFTA benefits all…
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Wednesday, 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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Saturday, 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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Mining and industrialisation in African economies: Implications of public policy and entrepreneurship

  • Year 2016
  • Organisation Akinseye Olowu; Edwin Ijeoma; Rachel Masu
  • Author(s) Joseph Ayo Babalola University
  • Countries and Regions Africa
Session 6: Industrial Development
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Africa's industrial transformation: Harnessing the potential of low-value minerals as a catalyst for industrialisation

  • Organisation UNECA
  • Author(s) Paul Msoma
  • Countries and Regions Africa
Session 6: Industrial Development
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Workplace and labour issues in the gold mining sector

  • Year 2016
  • Author(s) Chere Monaisa
Session 7: Mining Communities and Migrancy  
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The mining sector local profiles and impact

  • Year 2016
  • Organisation TIPS
  • Author(s) Dr Tacy Ledger
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
Session 7: Mining Communities and Migrancy
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Defining a reliable planning, monitoring and evaluation framework for the implementation of a mining company's social licence to operate: An honest approach to community development in South African mining

  • Year 2016
  • Organisation Department of Planning Monitoring and Evaluation
  • Author(s) Mpho Ndaba
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
Session 7: Mining Communities and Migrancy
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The scope for beneficiation of mineral resources in Zimbabwe: The case of chrome and platinum

  • Year 2016
  • Organisation ZEPARU
  • Author(s) Cornelius Dube
  • Countries and Regions Zimbabwe
Session 8: Minerals Beneficiation 
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Mining, energy and low-carbon economy in South Africa: A platinum case study

  • Year 2016
  • Organisation TIPS
  • Author(s) Gaylor Montmasson-Clair
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
Session 9: Energy Utilisation
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The impact of stranding power sector assets in South Africa: Using a linked model to understand economy-wide implications

  • Year 2016
  • Organisation Energy Research Centre
  • Author(s) Jesse Burton; Tara Caetano; Alison Hughes; Bruno Merven; Fadiel Ahjum; Bryce McCall
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
Session 9: Energy Utilisation
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Monday, 30 May 2016

Power and governance in agri-food systems: key issues for policymakers

  • Year 2016
  • Organisation TIPS
  • Author(s) Dr Tracy Ledger
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
This working paper presents an analysis of the dominant and growing agri-food system in South Africa, focusing on power and governance as two key factors that critically influence system outcomes. Current approaches towards agricultural development (including food security) tend to under-theorise these issues and thus they may not receive the…
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