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Unemployment And Aids: The Social-Democratic Challenge For South Africa

  • Year 2003
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
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South African Households Integration into the Core Economy - Micro Level Covariates

  • Year 2003
  • Author(s) Stan Dieden
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
In this exploratory analysis of household survey data, households' main income sources are used indicators of integration into the South African core economy. Notwithstanding the country's high urbanization rates, the picture of household income generation which emerges is one that disputes common perceptions of the multitude of means by which…
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The Role for Competition Policy in Economic Development The South African Experience

  • Year 2003
  • Organisation University of the Witwatersrand
  • Author(s) Simon Roberts
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
Competition policy is part of the new international orthodoxy in economic policy and, at the same time, was viewed in South Africa as a crucial element of economic transformation. This article reviews the role of competition policy in economic development and the experiences of developing countries such as Brazil and…
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Wednesday, 01 January 2003

A Decomposition Of Growth Of The Real Wage Rate For South African Manufacturing By Size Class: 1972-1996

  • Year 2003
  • Author(s) Dipak Mazumdar; Dirk van Seventer
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
The small and medium enterprise (SME) sector in South Africa has been the focus of attention since the first democratic elections in 1994. Not only does the sector offer the opportunity to enhance entrepreneurship amongst previously disadvantaged communities in South Africa, but it is also seen as one that has…
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Published in Centre for Real Economy Study (Crest)
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Wednesday, 01 January 2003

An Econometric Analysis of Labour Demand at an Industry Level in South Africa

  • Year 2003
  • Author(s) Elna Moolman
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
Policy makers in the public sector are often faced with requests for financial and other support of investment projects and incentive schemes. Frequently, such requests are accompanied by or require economic impact analyses of some sort. Economic impact assessment of investment projects can be undertaken at various levels. At one…
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Published in Centre for Real Economy Study (Crest)
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Sunday, 01 December 2002

The Economics Of SMMES In South Africa

  • Year 2002
  • Organisation TIPS
  • Author(s) Al Berry; Magali von Blottnitz
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY South Africa has, since 1994, been faced with the double challenges of re-integration into global markets as a global economy, while at the same time positioning itself to realise the high expectations of its populace regarding a successful transition towards a more democratic order. To achieve…
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Published in Trade and Industry
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Sunday, 01 December 2002

SADC Rules of Origin: Impediments to Regional Integration and Global Competitiveness

The SADC Free Trade Agreement, which came into being at the beginning of 2000 is up for a mid term review during 2004. The agreement is characterised by complex and restrictive rules of origin. Using references to case studies, Frank Flatters argues that if rules of origin were used simply…
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Published in Trade and Industry
Saturday, 15 June 2002

The Determinants of Regulatory Effectiveness in Liberalised Markets: Developing Country Experiences

  • Year 2002
  • Author(s) Gertrude Makhaya
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Published in Centre for Real Economy Study (Crest)
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Saturday, 15 June 2002

Toward an Understanding of the Growth Absence: Reviewing the Evidence that can Account for the Poor Growth Performance of the South African Economy

  • Year 2002
  • Organisation ERSA, University of the Witwatersrand
  • Author(s) Johannes Fedderke
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
South Africa's democratic transition now lies close to a decade in the past. The transition carried with it much by way of hopes in terms of greater access by its population, not only to an improved rights environment. It was envisaged that the political self-realization of all South African citizens…
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Published in Small Enterprise Development
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Saturday, 15 June 2002

Defence Industrial Restructuring and Economic Growth in South Africa

  • Year 2002
  • Author(s) Paul Dunne; Richard Haines
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
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Published in Centre for Real Economy Study (Crest)
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Saturday, 15 June 2002

Africa Growth And Opportunity Act:: Hot Air or Hot Stuff?

  • Year 2002
  • Organisation National Treasury
  • Author(s) Matthew Stern; Nnzeni Netshitomboni
  • Countries and Regions East African Community (EAC), Southern African Development Community (SADC)
The US Africa Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA), which was promulgated in October 2000, claims to “move Africans from poverty to prosperity by increasing their economic opportunities.” The Act extends Generalised System of Preferences (GSP) status for qualifying African countries to September 2008 and expands the existing list of 4…
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Published in SADC Trade Development
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Saturday, 15 June 2002

Competition Policy and Regulation: A Case Study of Telecommunications

  • Year 2002
  • Organisation TIPS; WITS
  • Author(s) Rossana Achterberg
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
Rapid technological change has impacted on the provision of telecommunications in South Africa, as in other countries. The increasing capacity of fibre optic networks, the growing powers of computers, the growth of satellite communications and other broadband developments are major factors influencing growth. Data to support an "information society" is…
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Published in Trade & Growth Dynamics
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Saturday, 15 June 2002

Information Technology and Producer Services - A Source of Economic Development: The South African Case

  • Year 2002
  • Organisation TIPS
  • Author(s) Hildegunn Nordas
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
This paper discusses one aspect of the somewhat discredited "new economy" namely the impact of information and communication technologies on the growth in volume and diversity of producer services. It provides an analysis of data on developments within transport, communications, finance and business services in South Africa and discusses the…
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Published in Trade & Growth Dynamics
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Saturday, 15 June 2002

Debating Privatisation of Network Utilities in South Africa: Theories, Fables, Facts, Other

  • Year 2002
  • Organisation TIPS; UCT
  • Author(s) Melvin Ayogu
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
The government of South Africa comes across clear in enunciating its goals for the reform of public enterprises. According to the Minister of Public Enterprises, “restructuring” is the generic term taken to represent the set of strategies employed by the state to ensure that public enterprises in South Africa are…
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Published in Trade & Growth Dynamics
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Saturday, 15 June 2002

Energy Services, WTO GATS Negotiations and Energy Market Regulation and Liberalisation in South Africa

  • Year 2002
  • Organisation TIPS
  • Author(s) Anton Eberhard
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
This paper is essentially a scoping exercise to explore the type of issues that might arise for South Africa in WTO energy service negotiations. The background to the current round of negotiations in energy services is explained, including the uncertainties that remain in classifying energy services. The extent and diversity…
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Published in Trade & Growth Dynamics
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Saturday, 15 June 2002

Can South Africa Afford To Become Africa's First Welfare State?

  • Year 2002
  • Organisation IFPRI
  • Author(s) James Thurlow
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
This paper assesses the economy-wide impact of implementing and financing a universal or basic income grant (BIG) in South Africa. The various financing scenarios suggested by the proponents of the grant are presented, and these are compared using an applied general equilibrium model for the South African economy. The results…
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Published in Trade & Growth Dynamics
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Saturday, 15 June 2002

Cancun: Crisis or Catharsis?

  • Year 2002
  • Organisation TIPS
  • Author(s) Bernard Hoekman
  • Countries and Regions Mercosur (Common Market of the South)
During September 10-14, 2003, WTO members met in Cancun for a mid-term review of the Doha Round of trade negotiations, launched in November 2001. Trade ministers entered the 5th WTO Ministerial divided on agricultural and non-agricultural negotiating modalities, on whether to launch negotiations on the so-called Singapore issues and their…
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The New Financial Architecture: South African Supervisors, Banks and the New Basel Accord

  • Year 2002
  • Author(s) Jessie de Beer
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
The new international financial architecture has its roots in the financial crises that shook emerging-market economies in the l990s Mexico in 1994-5, and East Asia in 1997-8. The problems there, as well as in Russia in 1998, in Brazil in 1998-9, and more recently in Turkey and Argentina, underscored the…
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How Do South African Exports Respond to Price and Exchange Rate Changes? An Econometric Analysis of the Manufacturing Sector

  • Year 2002
  • Author(s) Neil Rankin
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
This paper examines the response of South African manufacturing production to changes in prices and exchange rates. A restricted profit function is used to model the behaviour of the manufacturing sector, as well as a number of manufacturing sub-sectors, and of the agricultural and coal mining sectors. Labour and intermediate…
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Prospects for Increasing Trade among SADC Countries

  • Year 2002
  • Author(s) Sophie Chauvin; Guillaume Gaulier
In September 2000, the SADC FTA has been launched wherein full liberalization of trade is expected by 2012. The SADC FTA is intended to act as a catalyst for increased regional integration. Nevertheless what are the benefits expected from the SADC FTA given the economic structure disparities existing among its…
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Developing Countries and the Political Economy of the Trading System

  • Year 2002
  • Author(s) Bernard Hoekman
This paper analyzes a number of the challenges confronting developing countries seeking to use the WTO Doha negotiations to promote their economic growth and performance. A precondition for success is to have clear objectives and to take a pro-active stance. But a key necessary condition for success will be to…
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Industrial Tariff Liberalization and the Doha Development Agenda

  • Year 2002
  • Author(s) Bijit Bora; Marc Bacchetta
The negotiating mandate for the Doha Development Agenda is both broad and comprehensive. This paper has tried to focus on the basic mandate given to negotiators in the area of tariffs and trade in industrial products. With respect to developed country markets the key issue is how to tackle the…
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Regulating South Africa's Citrus Export Commodity

  • Year 2002
  • Author(s) Charles Mather
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
This paper is about changes in the regulation of citrus exports from South Africa. It traces the changes from state regulation of the citrus chain to very recent forms of private regulation in the context of highly competitive global markets. The paper argues that while these forms of private regulation…
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South African Manufacturing Performance in International Perspective, 1970-1999

  • Year 2002
  • Author(s) Michiel van Dijk
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
This paper analyses the historical performance of the South African manufacturing sector in an international perspective. After a brief overview of the industrialisation process of South Africa during the 20th century, a binary comparison of manufacturing output and productivity between South Africa and the US is presented. The industry-of-origin approach…
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Policy in the South African Motor Industry: Goals, Incentives, And Outcomes

  • Year 2002
  • Author(s) Anthony Black; Shannon Mitchell
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
The paper first outlines the history of industrial and trade policy in the industry. It highlights the significance of the transition from import-substitution policies to export promotion policies. It then provides an analytic exposition of the welfare costs and benefits of the current export complementation programme. We find that: The…
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South Africa's Changing Agricultural Trade Regime

  • Year 2002
  • Author(s) Nicholas Vink; Norma Tregurtha
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
Over the past two decades, South Africa's agricultural sector has been extensively liberalised. As a result, a closer examination of the data shows some interesting trends in international trade in food and beverage products. First, exports of processed foods and beverages have shown strong growth. Despite the large increase in…
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Economic Geography and the Implications of a Free Trade Area within SADC

  • Year 2002
  • Author(s) Simon Hess
  • Countries and Regions Southern African Development Community (SADC)
This study investigates the impact of a free trade area (FTA) on industrial distribution within the Southern African Development Community (SADC). As such the study is grounded in new theories of international trade analysing the impact of trade agreements on countries of different sizes. SADC represents a consortium of countries…
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Predicting South African Trade in Services

  • Year 2002
  • Author(s) Matthew Stern
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
Economists seem to agree that the theory of comparative advantage can be extended to trade in services. Countries with relatively large endowments of skilled labour and capital and relatively few natural resources should export more services and less mining or agricultural goods than those relatively rich in land or resources.…
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The Impact of Globalisation on the Labour Market: The Case of Namibia

  • Year 2002
  • Author(s) Grace Mohamed; Daniel Motinga
  • Countries and Regions Namibia
This paper investigates the economic impact of globalisation on the Namibian labour market. It deals with how trade liberalisation, which is just one dimension of globalisation, impacts on the labour market, and therefore outlines possible indicators of the links between liberalisation and employment. The paper argues that the economic returns…
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An Evaluation of the Influences on Price and Production in the Maize Market following Liberalisation

  • Year 2002
  • Author(s) Neo Chabane
In 1996 the maize market was liberalised and the maize marketing board was abolished. This has meant that prices and production decisions now respond to market forces. At the same time there has been a restructuring of agents at different levels of the maize supply chain and there are relatively…
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