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Monday, 20 October 2008

Working Paper 3-2008: TNC FDI Firms and Domestic SME Linkages Reflecting on three SADC Case Studies

  • Year 2008
  • Author(s) Glen Robbins, Likani Lebani and Mike Rogan
The research process underpinning this article was focused on casting some light on factors influencing the way in which developing countries can enhance linkages between Transnational Corporation (TNC) Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) firms and domestic small and medium enterprises (SMEs). It sought to do this through identifying the major lessons…
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Thursday, 16 October 2008

Working Paper 2-2008: Mozambican Air Transport Liberalisation: A Discussion Document

  • Year 2008
  • Author(s) Myriam Velia;Cornel van Bastern;Arthur Dykes
  • Countries and Regions Mozambique
In this report, the meaning of liberalisation in the air transport sector is discussed and the difference between deregulation and liberalisation is highlighted. Liberalisation entails a progressive opening up of a market with state control enacted over the process, while some amount of regulation may be required to ensure that…
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Wednesday, 15 October 2008

Working Paper 4-2008: Balance of Payments dynamics, institutions and economic performance in South Africa: a policy-oriented study

  • Year 2008
  • Organisation TIPS
  • Author(s) Andreas Freytag
SAIIA and TIPS have collaborated on a project investigating balance of payment dynamics issues in South Africa. Professor Andreas Freytag, who has a Chair of Economic Policy at Friedrich-Schiller University Jena in Germany, has been working with SAIIA and the University of Stellenbosch on the following research: 'Balance of Payments…
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Wednesday, 01 October 2008

Employment intermediation for unskilled and low-skilled work seekers – Part 11: Case studies - NB Ideas with Strategies for Change and Indego Consulting

  • Year 2008
  • Organisation TIPS
  • Author(s) NB Ideas with Strategies for Change and Indego Consulting
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
This document is part two of a three part report on employment intermediation. Part one provides an overview of the sector, internationally and nationally, and part three captures the recommendations for further work towards strengthening the sector. In this second part of that report, seven case studies of existing employment…
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Published in Second Economy Strategy Project
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Wednesday, 01 October 2008

Local labour placement project: Overstrand Municipality

  • Year 2008
  • Organisation TIPS
  • Author(s) Overstrand Municipality
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
The Local Labour Promotion Project (hereafter LLPP) has been developed internally within the Overstrand Municipality which is situated in the Overberg District of the Western Cape Province. The LLPP was developed initially in 2005 to deal with the high level of municipal services arrears owed by unemployed debtors in the…
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Wednesday, 01 October 2008

Business health check: Western Cape Bus Operators’ Transport Co-operative Ltd (Siyakhula)

  • Year 2008
  • Organisation TIPS
  • Author(s) Karen Harrison
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
Siyakhula, or the Western Cape Bus Operators’ Transport Cooperative Ltd, operates within the bus sector of the transport industry. A brief description of the sector follows in order to contextualise the operations of the cooperative. The transport, storage and communications sector increased its share in real output growth in the…
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Wednesday, 01 October 2008

Transport and the Urban Poor

  • Year 2008
  • Organisation TIPS
  • Author(s) Mathetha Mokonyama For Urban LandMark
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
The aim of the paper is to articulate necessary state interventions to improve transport services for the urban poor in South Africa. The paper forms part of a larger study intended to inform a strategic response to the challenges of the “second economy” in the South African urban areas. The…
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Wednesday, 01 October 2008

Employment intermediation for unskilled and low-skilled work seekers Part 1: Overview , NB Ideas, with Strategies for Change and Indego Consulting

  • Year 2008
  • Organisation TIPS
  • Author(s) NB Ideas with Strategies for Change and Indego Consulting
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
Unemployment is one of the biggest challenges facing South Africa. Growth has been inadequate, the skills level requirement of new jobs is continually rising, current skills among the workforce are low and inadequate numbers of low end, unskilled jobs are being created. Finding mechanisms to address this challenge is a…
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Wednesday, 01 October 2008

Emergency Relief in Informal Settlements: Proposals for Action

  • Year 2008
  • Organisation TIPS
  • Author(s) Mark Misselhorn and Tanya Zack For Urban LandMark
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
CONTEXT This document is a response to the aspiration of National Treasury to define practical mechanisms which will enable emergency relief for informal settlements and associated urban economy interventions to rapidly occur on a national basis. This aspiration flows largely from a draft urban strategy for the second economy formulated…
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Wednesday, 01 October 2008

The State of Land Use Management in South Africa

  • Year 2008
  • Organisation TIPS
  • Author(s) Sarah Charlton For Urban LandMark
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
This paper contributes to the urban component of the forthcoming ‘second economy’1 strategy. The brief called for a reflection on the issue of urban land use management (LUM), and extraction of the implications for the urban poor. For the most part the task involved a secondary analysis of work undertaken…
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Monday, 01 September 2008

The Fisheries Sector: Expanding Economic Opportunities through Regulatory Change

  • Year 2008
  • Organisation TIPS
  • Author(s) FEIKE
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
Presently, deep-sea vessels fishing Hake under-catch their annual allocation by nearly 10,000 tons and it is claimed that this is because there is no basis on which to target by-catch once the allowable Hake quota has been caught. The following policy and regulatory issues would permit Horse Mackerel, which is…
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Monday, 01 September 2008

Linking small and marginalised producers to external markets: New ideas for demand-side measures using value chain analysis

  • Year 2008
  • Organisation TIPS
  • Author(s) Sandy Lowitt
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
This executive summary is not presented in the usual manner of summarising the findings of each chapter of the report. The complexity and detail covered in the report, and the nuances in the debates, makes such an option impossible. Rather, a brief overview of the key issues and approaches is…
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Monday, 01 September 2008

Potential for a South African Aquaculture Industry on the Northern Cape's Namaqualand Coast

  • Year 2008
  • Organisation TIPS
  • Author(s) FEIKE
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
In the 1980s, aquaculture, or fish farming, was in its infancy, globally. Today, it accounts for close to 50 million tons annually, making up nearly half of all fish products consumed. Of this, Africa has a 1% market share and South Africa accounts for about 1% of the African slice.…
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Friday, 15 August 2008

Energy-based poverty indicators: Meeting AsgiSA targets

  • Year 2008
  • Organisation TIPS
  • Author(s) Claire Vermaak; Marcel Kohler; Dr Bruce Rhodes
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
Since 1994 the South African government has identified poverty alleviation as a key policy goal. This objective was formulated under the auspices of the Growth, Employment and Redistribution (GEAR) policy which has arguably had limited success (Hassan, 2001). In 2004 the Accelerated and Shared Growth Initiative for South Africa (AsgiSA)…
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Tuesday, 22 July 2008

Towards a New Partnership: China in the SADC Banking Sector

  • Year 2008
  • Organisation TIPS
  • Author(s) Memory Dube
  • Countries and Regions China, Southern African Development Community (SADC)
This paper uses as its point of departure the recent demise of the world's largest financial institutions that set in motion the current global financial crisis. These financial institutions look set to re-evaluate their model of global finance and it is anticipated that western finance will be dramatically transformed in…
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Tuesday, 10 June 2008

First international conference on regional integration issues and SADC law

  • Year 2008
  • Organisation SADRN Programme Co-ordinator, TIPS
  • Author(s) Mmatlou Kalaba
  • Countries and Regions Southern African Development Community (SADC)
FIRST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON REGIONAL INTEGRATION ISSUES AND SADC LAW  
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Friday, 23 November 2007

Annual Review of Small Business in South Africa 2004: A Statistical Review

  • Year 2004
  • Organisation DTI
  • Author(s) TIPS
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
In 2005, the Small Enterprise Development Agency (seda) - the dti's newly established agency for supporting small business - tasked TIPS to carry out a second annual review of South Africa's small businesses as part of its mandate to support the growth of small enterprise in South Africa, to help…
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Friday, 23 November 2007

Annual Review of Small Business in South Africa 2004: A Qualitative Review

  • Year 2004
  • Organisation DTI
  • Author(s) TIPS
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
In 2005, the Small Enterprise Development Agency (seda) - the dti's newly established agency for supporting small business - tasked TIPS to carry out a second annual review of South Africa's small businesses as part of its mandate to support the growth of small enterprise in South Africa, to help…
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Friday, 16 November 2007

Annual Review of Small Business in South Africa 2003

  • Year 2003
  • Organisation DTI
  • Author(s) TIPS
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
The Department of Trade & Industry's (the dti's) Enterprise Development unit is tasked with developing policy and strategy for the small business sector. The objectives of government policy and strategy on enterprise development are empowerment, economic development and job creation. Much progress towards meeting these objectives has been made over…
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Corporate Governance in South Africa

  • Year 2007
  • Author(s) Stephan Malherbe;Nick Segal
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
By the late 1980s, many of South Africa's corporations were bloated, unfocused and run by entrenched and complacent managers. These firms were sustained and tolerated by a very different environment from that in advanced economies and capital markets. The mainstay of the South African environment was isolation. Tariffs and political…
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Friday, 02 November 2007

Vegetables

  • Year 2007
  • Organisation SADC Trade Project
  • Countries and Regions Southern African Development Community (SADC)
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Friday, 02 November 2007

Spices

  • Year 2007
  • Organisation SADC Trade Project
  • Countries and Regions Southern African Development Community (SADC)
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Friday, 02 November 2007

Soybeans

  • Year 2007
  • Organisation SADC Trade Project
  • Countries and Regions Southern African Development Community (SADC)
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Friday, 02 November 2007

Fruit

  • Year 2007
  • Organisation SADC Trade Project
  • Countries and Regions Southern African Development Community (SADC)
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Friday, 02 November 2007

Capsicum

  • Year 2007
  • Organisation SADC Trade Project
  • Countries and Regions Southern African Development Community (SADC)
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Friday, 02 November 2007

Cassava

  • Year 2007
  • Organisation SADC Trade Project
  • Countries and Regions Southern African Development Community (SADC)
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Friday, 02 November 2007

Almonds

  • Year 2007
  • Organisation SADC Trade Project
  • Countries and Regions Southern African Development Community (SADC)
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Friday, 15 June 2007

Economic Regulation Research Programme: Concept Paper

  • Year 2007
  • Organisation TIPS
  • Author(s) Cornel van Basten
TIPS has added Economic Regulation as one of its main research areas, where we'll focus mainly on essential services (energy, telecoms, transport and water) because of their social impact and network characteristics, to ensure universal and affordable access to essential services. The purpose of the paper is to provide some…
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Monday, 11 June 2007

Economic regulation of the electricity industry: a balancing act

  • Year 2007
  • Organisation TIPS
  • Author(s) Cornel van Basten
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
No-one can dispute that electricity is an essential input to production and economic growth in South-Africa. Eskom, a wholly state-owned utility dominates electricity generation, it supplies approximately 95% of South Africa's electricity. The Electricity Supply Industry (ESI) has been facing numerous uncertainties during the past decade. This included aspects such…
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Wednesday, 02 May 2007

Wood and wood products

  • Year 2007
  • Organisation SADC Trade Project
  • Countries and Regions Southern African Development Community (SADC)
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