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24 October 2008
Trade and industrial policy in South Africa
The future direction of South African industrial policy is the subject of vigorous and healthy debate. The outcome is important for the country's economic development. This study is an attempt to contribute to these discussions through an overview of and some questions about the economic impacts of South Africa's post…
- Year 2008
- Organisation Development Network Africa
- Author(s) Frank Flatters;Matthew Stern
- Countries and Regions South Africa
This document has the objective to determine and to analyze the economic vocation of the ten main cities in Mexico, it with the purpose to identify areas of opportunity for the implementation of policies of industrial clusters as a measure to increase the productivity in the country. From the decade…
- Year 2008
- Organisation Polytechnic University of San Luis Potosi, Mexico
- Author(s) Juan Carlos Neri Guzmán
- Countries and Regions Mercosur (Common Market of the South)
24 October 2008
The sustainability of South Africa's energy resorces: the impact of international trade
South Africa's energy system has been, and still is, one of the key contributing factors to the social and economic development of the nation. By international standards, the South African economy is very energy-intensive, meaning that the country uses a large amount of energy for every rand of economic output.…
- Year 2008
- Organisation University of Kwazulu-Natal
- Author(s) Marcel Kohler
- Countries and Regions South Africa
24 October 2008
Refugees and forced migrants in South Africa's urban areas: definitions, rights, levels of wellbeing and policy
The world's interest in forced displacement, including refugees and forced migrants has increased considerably during the last decades as the number of people displaced became a global concern. At the end of 2005, the global figure of "persons of concern" to the United Nations Higher Commission on Refugees (UNHCR) stood…
- Year 2008
- Organisation University of Johannesburg
- Author(s) Talita Dalton-Greyling
- Countries and Regions South Africa
24 October 2008
Strategies for the second economy: a conceptual framework
The paper will explore the assumptions and analysis informing the drafting of a second economy strategy, a process that has been underway under the auspices of The Second Economy Strategy Project: an initiative of the Presidency, based at TIPS. The paper will argue that the concept of 'the second economy'…
- Year 2008
- Organisation TIPS
- Author(s) Kate Philip
- Countries and Regions South Africa
Democracy opened the door for transformation in South Africa. In the past decade, various laws, policies and programmes have been implemented with the aim of putting into effect the principles of the new South African Constitution and the Bill of Rights, with the aim of improving the lives of the…
- Year 2008
- Organisation University of the Free State
- Author(s) Antonie Pool
- Countries and Regions South Africa
24 October 2008
Rethinking economic growth: the South African perspective
Colonialism and the deleterious impact of Structural Adjustment Programmes (SAPs) and now globalisation. Some parts of postcolonial Africa have attempted to set up ministries of economic development. Others have concentrated on attracting on Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) whilst some others have early on realised that the state and private capital…
- Year 2008
- Organisation YENEPAD
- Author(s) Alain Ndedi
- Countries and Regions South Africa
27 October 2008
Infrastructure, Transport Costs and Trade: A New Approach
This paper investigates the impact of the quality of infrastructure on exports, with a specific focus on Sub-Sahara Africa. Improving the quality of infrastructure has a positive effect on exports by lowering the transport costs faced by the exporter. This paper provides a new specification on how to model transport…
- Year 2008
- Organisation TIPS
- Author(s) Lawrence Edwards;Martin Odendaal
- Countries and Regions South Africa
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TIPS Research Grant Papers
28 October 2008
Review of the Community Work Programme
The Community Work Programme means we cannot put a board on the gate that says: 'No Job.' Instead we need a board that says: Jobs are Here! We Need People!' King George Mohlala CWP Project Manager, Bokfontein. Contents 1. Attendance 2. Purpose 3. Key Themes from Site Reports 4. Monitoring…
- Date Thursday, 04 September 2008
Published in
Events Archive
31 October 2008
Second Economy Strategy: 'Work in Progress' Workshop
- Date Thursday, 22 May 2008
Published in
Events Archive
11 November 2008
The Review of Second economy Programmes: An Overview for the Presidency's Fifteen Year Review
At the July 2007 Cabinet lekgotla, the Presidency was tasked with conducting a review of existing government programmes that target the 'second economy', in order to identify where programmes can be scaled up to achieve greater impacts, and where further…
Published in
Second Economy Strategy Project
11 November 2008
Second Economy Strategy Project: Forestry and the Second Economy
- Date Wednesday, 16 July 2008
Published in
Events Archive
11 November 2008
Economic Partnership Agreement Workshop
TIPS, in collaboration with the Overseas Development Institute and as part of its AusAID-funded Southern African Trade Development Programme, in March 2008 held an EPA workshop at its office in Pretoria. The objectives of the workshop were to present the content of the Southern African Development Community (SADC), East African…
- Date Tuesday, 04 March 2008
- Venue TIPS, 828 Government Avenue, Pretoria, South Africa
Published in
Events Archive
24 November 2008
The Logic & the Method of Industrial Policy: Concepts & Practices, with Prof. Carlo Pietrobelli
You are kindly invited to the following Development Dialogue Seminar: Prof. Carlo Pietrobelli The Logic & the Method of Industrial Policy: Concepts & Practices. Note that a light lunch will be provided afterwards. About Prof. Carlo Pietrobelli : Carlo Pietrobelli is Professor of International Economics at the University of Rome…
- Date Monday, 08 December 2008
- Venue TIPs/ Commark Offices - 826 Government Avenue, Arcadia
Published in
Development Dialogue Seminars
27 November 2008
Introduction to Economy-Wide Policy Impact Analysis Workshop
Most economics curricula deal with macroeconomic tools for studying the economy as a whole and microeconomic tools for studying the behaviour of individual agents or markets. However, practical public and private sector economic analysts often need to focus on the industry/sector or meso level of economic activity. Key sector analysis,…
- Date Monday, 23 February 2009
- Venue Pretoria
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Events Archive
28 November 2008
Reflecting on South Africa's post-apartheid experience with spatially informed economic development programmes
The South Africa that emerged from the 1994 democratic elections was one characterised by widespread poverty and inequality with an economy that was suffering the effects of macro-economic mismanagement. The root causes of these problems were seen to have originated from within the distorted policies of a highly centralised apartheid…
- Year 2008
- Organisation School of Development Studies, University of KwaZulu-Natal
- Author(s) Glen Robbins
- Countries and Regions South Africa
30 November 2008
The extent of SADC trade protection and its effects on the least developing members of the region
The drive towards SADC trade liberalisation is a goal that is emphasised in most documents of the SADC Secretariat, including the protocol on trade and the regional indicative strategic development plan (RISDP). This trade liberalisation aims to deepen regional integration through increased intra-trade between SADC member states, which was to…
- Year 2008
- Author(s) Mmatlou Kalaba
- Countries and Regions Southern African Development Community (SADC)
30 November 2008
Regulatory Principles in South Africa
The trend towards the Regulatory State. It has been argued that: 'A fundamental driver of the demand for regulation in recent years has been increasing 'risk aversion' in many spheres of life. Regulation has come to be seen as a panacea for many of society's ills and as a means…
- Year 2008
- Organisation Faculty of economic and management sciences, University of the Western Cape
- Author(s) Douglas Blackmur
- Countries and Regions South Africa
30 November 2008
Economic regulation of network industries
South Africa is in its infancy regarding independent economic regulation of network utilities. Although economic regulation of public utilities have been exercised in South Africa for a number of years (usually by the line Government Department), the establishment of independent economic regulation had only emerged a little more than ten…
- Year 2008
- Author(s) Cornel Van Basten
- Countries and Regions South Africa
30 November 2008
Exchange rate volatility spillovers and the South African currency
This paper examines the volatility spillovers between the South African currency and the currencies of selected markets in developed and emerging Europe as well as Asia and Latin America. Additionally, the exchange rate volatility spillovers are examined over one year window samples to determine the evolution of volatility spillovers between…
- Year 2008
- Author(s) Leroi Raputsoane
- Countries and Regions Asia, European Union (EU), Mercosur (Common Market of the South)