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Monday, 16 April 2007

A Strategic Assessment of the South African Clothing Sector

  • Year 2005
  • Organisation TIPS
  • Author(s) Justin Barnes
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
This document has two objectives. First, it endeavours to capture the domestic clothing sectors major market and production trends, as well as broader dynamics. Second, these foundational elements operate as a mechanism to identify current clothing sector constraints and opportunities and hence the need for, and the importance of, policy…
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Monday, 16 April 2007

The Economics of MIDP and the South African Motor Industry

  • Year 2005
  • Author(s) Frank Flatters
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
The Motor Industry Development Program (MIDP) is widely regarded as a major success of South Africa's post-apartheid trade and industrial policies. The program was introduced in 1995, has been modified and/or extended several times, and is currently scheduled to continue until 2012. A DTI-funded review, the third since the programs…
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Export processing zone expansion in an African country: What are the labour market and gender impacts?

  • Year 2004
  • Author(s) Peter Glick; Francois Roubard
  • Countries and Regions Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (Comesa)
This study seeks to understand the labor market (employment and earnings) and gender impacts of the dramatic recent expansion of the export processing zone (the Zone Franche) in urban Madagascar. It is distinguished from most earlier empirical analysis of this subject by its use of micro data collected annually over…
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Friday, 13 April 2007

Non-Tariff Measures: The Bigger Picture for South and Southern Africa

  • Year 2003
  • Organisation Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies (TIPS)
  • Author(s) Ron Sandrey
  • Countries and Regions South Africa, Southern Africa Customs Union (SACU)
As tariff barriers are reduced around the world, increasing attention has been paid to non-tariff measures. Although differing definitions exist of exactly what these NTMs are, let alone how their quantitative impacts are measured, they can basically be defined as government measures other than tariffs that restrict trade flows.
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Friday, 13 April 2007

Trade Information Service 2005

  • Year 2005
  • Organisation TIPS
  • Author(s) Owen Willcox
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
One of the objectives of the Department of Trade and Industry (the dti) is to develop capacitiesfor improving the export performance of businesses. To do so, the dti/TISA require easily accessible practical strategic and analytical tools for identifying growing markets to which South African firms could export. This report will…
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Thursday, 12 April 2007

Non-Tariff Measures (NTMs) Facing Exports from South and Southern Africa

  • Year 2003
  • Organisation TIPS
  • Author(s) Ron Sandrey
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
As international tariffs are being reduced increased attention is being given to the role of non-tariff measures in impeding trade flows. The working definition of NTMs used in this report is “government measures other than tariffs that restrict trade flows”. This covers a range of measures from health and safety…
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Wednesday, 11 April 2007

Analysis of Trade between South Africa and the EU and a Preliminary Attempt to Examine the Impact of the EU-SA FTA on Trade

  • Year 2005
  • Organisation Trade & Industrial Policy Strategies (TIPS)
  • Author(s) Mmatlou Kalaba; Ron Sandrey; Dirk Ernst van Seventer
  • Countries and Regions European Union (EU), Southern Africa Customs Union (SACU)
This paper evaluates bilateral trade between South Africa and the EU over the past decade, where possible up to 2003. Structure of the Report: Part A: Aspects of trade and tariff patterns Basic trade flows between South Africa and the EU Intra-industry trade Trade intensity calculations Areas of export potential…
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Monday, 26 February 2007

Changes in HIV/AIDS knowledge and testing behavior in Africa: How much and for whom?

  • Year 2004
  • Author(s) Peter Glick; David Sahn
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
AIDS has had its most devastating impacts in Africa and the prevalence of the disease continues to rise in most African countries. With a feasible vaccine still years away, reduction in risk behaviors remains the only way to reverse the epidemic. An obvious prerequisite for behavior change is that people…
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Published in Inequality and Economic Inclusion
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Monday, 26 February 2007

SA/EU FTA: Mid-term Review

  • Year 2005
  • Organisation Trade & Industrial Policy Strategies (TIPS)
  • Author(s) Mmatlou Kalabe; Ron Sandrey; Dirk Ernst van Seventer
This paper evaluates bilateral trade between South Africa and the EU over the past decade, where possible up to 2003. Structure of the Report: Part A: Aspects of trade and tariff patterns Basic trade flows between South Africa and the EU. Intra-industry trade Trade intensity calculations Areas of export potential…
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Tuesday, 13 February 2007

International Marketing Textbook

  • Year 2006
  • Author(s) S.M. Burgess;C.H. Bothma
TIPS contributed a chapter to this book published by Oxford University Press on International Marketing. TIPS wrote the chapter on Exporting for Small Businesses. The book is aimed at undergraduate and graduate international marketing students but it also a ready reference and guide to exporters and international marketing practitioners. For more information on international Marketing,…
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Unemployment, Education and Skills Constraints in Post-Apartheid South Africa

  • Year 2006
  • Author(s) Dorrit Posel and Rosa Dias
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
This paper investigates the relationship between education and unemployment in post-apartheid South Africa, and probes the argument that employment growth has been inhibited particularly by skills constraints. We use probit regression analysis to show that higher education protected against unemployment in both 1995 and 2003, and that overall, the relative…
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Infrastructure and Growth in South Africa: Direct and Indirect Productivity Impacts of Nineteen Infrastructure Measures

  • Year 2006
  • Author(s) J.W. Fedderke and Z. Bogetic
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
Empirical explorations of the growth and productivity impacts of infrastructure have been characterized by ambiguous (countervailing signs) results with little robustness. A number of explanations of the contradictory findings have been proposed. These range from the crowd-out of private by public sector investment, non-linearities generating the possibility of infrastructure overprovision,…
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Education Screening in South Africa's Labour Market

  • Year 2006
  • Author(s) Steven F Koch and Simon Ssekabira Ntege
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
This paper empirically contributes towards the debate between the human capital and screening theories. Using South Africa's September 2004 Labour Force Survey data, and after controlling for self-selection, the weak and strong versions of screening hypothesis are tested. The honour's degree, and certificates or diplomas got without grade twelve, provide…
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Friday, 02 February 2007

Do free trade agreements create trade for South Africa?

  • Year 2006
  • Author(s) Merle Holden;Landon McMillan
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
This paper by Prof. Merle Holden, head of the School of Economics and Management at the University of KwaZulu-Natal Durban and Landon McMillan, an economist at TIPS, supports the view that the EU-SA FTA stimulated both imports and exports, while for SADC, exports were stimulated but the results for imports…
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Friday, 02 February 2007

Smart industries: the importance of technology and R&D for industry performance

  • Year 2006
  • Author(s) Simon Roberts
Prof. Simon Roberts, previously the director of Corporate Strategy and Industrial Development (CSID) at the University of the Witwatersrand and now chief economist at the Competition Commission in this paper explains the importance for industrial development of technological capability development across all economic sectors. The sector studies discussed here indicate…
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Friday, 02 February 2007

Regional Integration in Southern Africa: Volume 1 - South Africa's International Trade Diplomacy

  • Year 2006
  • Organisation TIPS ; SAIIA
  • Author(s) Mmatlou Kalaba; Peter Draper; Philip Alves
  • Countries and Regions Southern Africa Customs Union (SACU), Southern African Development Community (SADC)
Regional integration can be a key force for sustainable development. It can promote economic growth, reduce poverty, foster social development or protect the environment. But it can also have negative economic and social impacts, especially when the domestic regulatory framework is inadequate or not implemented effectively.
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Friday, 02 February 2007

Trade at a glance

  • Year 2006
  • Organisation TIPS
  • Author(s) Mmatlou Kalaba
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
Description TIPS economist Mmatlou Kalaba prepares a quarterly snapshot of South Africa's trade with particular trade blocs around the world. Abstract Graphical representation of World trade and South African Trade, at a glance
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Wednesday, 31 January 2007

The impacts of globalisation and liberalisation on inequality

  • Year 2006
  • Organisation TIPS
  • Author(s) Albert Berry
Description In his paper, Albert Berry - professor of economics and director of the Latin American programme at the Centre for International Studies of the University of Toronto - identifies the impacts of globalisation and liberalisation on inequality. He finds that data deficiencies and a lack of in-depth analysis of…
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Wednesday, 31 January 2007

Employment dynamics in the Western Cape

  • Year 2006
  • Author(s) Morne Oosthuizen
Morne Oosthuizen - deputy director of the Development Policy Research Unit (DPRU) at the University of Cape Town - contributed a paper that first appeared in the Western Cape Treasury's Provincial Economic Review: Outlook 2006.' The research presents a closer analysis of the Western Cape labour market, providing both an…
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Friday, 01 December 2006

The State of Trade Policy in South Africa

  • Year 2002
  • Author(s) Rashad Cassim; Donald Onyango
The South African government and the Department of Trade and Industry (the dti) in particular have embarked on a policy framework to ensure that the SA economy becomes competitive. In an increasingly traded global economy, it is recognised that national economic welfare will be enhanced by both greater efficiency, brought…
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Thursday, 02 November 2006

Cut Flowers

  • Year 2006
  • Organisation SADC Trade Project
  • Countries and Regions Southern African Development Community (SADC)
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Thursday, 01 December 2005

Working Paper 5 - 2005: Ramsey Model of Barriers to Growth and Skill-Biased Income Distribution in South Africa

  • Year 2005
  • Author(s) Jorn Rattso; Hildegunn Stokke
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
This paper integrates two mechanisms of economic growth barriers to international spill-overs and skill-biased effects on the income distribution. South Africa (SA) is an interesting case study because of dramatic changes in international barriers over time and policy focus to productivity and distribution. Barriers affect the balance between innovation and…
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Published in Centre for Real Economy Study (Crest)
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Thursday, 01 December 2005

Working Paper 1 - 2005: The Market Disciplining Effects of Trade Liberalisation and Regional Import Penetration on Manufacturing In South Africa

  • Year 2005
  • Organisation TIPS
  • Author(s) Lawrence Edwards; Tijl van de Winkel
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
Since the mid-1990s, South Africa has made considerable progress in opening ups its trade regime. In 1994 South Africa committed itself to reducing and simplifying its tariff levels and structure in accordance with it offer under the GATT Uruguay Round. As a consequence tariffs have fallen, although the number of…
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Thursday, 01 December 2005

Working Paper 6 - 2005: Determining an Appropriate Methodology for an Economy-wide Study of the Impact of Restructuring and Privatisation on the SA Economy

  • Year 2005
  • Author(s) Dirk van Seventer; Richard Goode
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
Since 1994, some restructuring of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) has taken place in South Africa (SA), which has included elements of corporatisation and commercialisation, as well as partial privatisation. The Government has committed itself to more reform. This is an ongoing process, and to inform this process an investigation into its…
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Thursday, 01 December 2005

Working Paper 4 - 2005: The Barrier Model of Productivity Growth: South Africa

  • Year 2005
  • Author(s) Jorn Rattso; Hildegunn Stokke
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
The barrier model of productivity growth suggests that individual country productivity is related to the world technology frontier disturbed by national barriers. We offer a country study of the barrier model, exploiting the dramatic changes in the linkages to the world economy in South Africa (SA).The productivity growth in the…
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Thursday, 01 December 2005

Working Paper 7 - 2005: Models for Private Sector Engagement in the Delivery of Commuter Rail Services

  • Year 2005
  • Author(s) Karl Venter; Richard Goode
Improving commuter rail service delivery is a high-priority programme of the Department of Transport (DOT). Faced with a failing business, the DOT has launched a reform programme for commuter rail, foreseeing increased public investment and possibly an extended role for the private sector. The object of this working paper is…
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Thursday, 01 December 2005

Working Paper 2 - 2005: Tourism SMMEs in South Africa: A Case for Separate Policy Development?

  • Year 2005
  • Author(s) Christian Rogerson
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
One of the key issues that has been raised in terms of the analysis of small enterprise (SMME) support programmes in South Africa is that often support initiatives have been in the form of 'generic' packages that overlook the specificities of particular sectors. Although it has been recognized that the…
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Thursday, 01 December 2005

Working Paper 3 - 2005: SMEs in South Africas Food Processing Complex

  • Year 2005
  • Author(s) Charles Mather
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
The food processing sector is widely regarded as having the potential to generate economic growth, entrepreneurial opportunities and employment (FAO, 1997; CIAT, 2002; Lambert, 2001; McCormick and Atieno, 2002). In developing countries the interest in agro-processing is associated with its potential for generating demand amongst smallholder farmers, upgrading primary production…
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Wednesday, 23 November 2005

Review: 10 Years of Small Business Support in South Africa 1994 - 2004

  • Year 2005
  • Organisation DTI
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
In 2004, TIPS also undertook a study to document public sector support to the small enterprise sector over the last decade for the dti. The Review documents 10 years of evolution of the dti's small enterprise support programmes and its overall strategy, leading to the current 'Integrated Strategy for Small-Enterprise…
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Tuesday, 14 June 2005

Working Paper 8 - 2005: The Role of Provincial Governments in Supporting Small Enterprise Development

  • Year 2005
  • Organisation TIPS
  • Author(s) John Orford
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
This paper considers the role of provincial governments in supporting small enterprise development. It is based on research conducted by the University of Cape Town's (UCT's) Centre of Innovation and Entrepreneurship (CIE). It was sponsored by TIPS (Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies), an independent non-profit research institution that is committed…
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