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Tuesday, 14 February 2023

Small is Powerful: Local green enterprises - how to finance a powerful catalyst for change

  • Year 2022
  • Organisation Green Economy Coalition
Small businesses are the engines of a fair and green economy. But they lack access to the finance they need to grow. A new report from the Green Economy Coalition (GEC) looks at the barriers that small business face. These include risky and informal money lending arrangements, high bars for accessing credit, regulatory…
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Saturday, 23 October 2021

Regional value chains and industrialisation: the Southern African experience

  • Year 2021
  • Organisation UNCTAD
  • Author(s) Saul Levin and Neva Makgetla (TIPS)
Transforming Southern Africa: Harnessing regional value chains and industrial policy for development  Chaper 1: Regional value chains and industrialisation: The Southern African experience by Saul Levin and Neva Makgetla This technical report brings together a series of contributions from leading economists and experts on the challenges and the opportunities faced…
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Tuesday, 03 August 2021

The WTO TRIPS waiver should help build vaccine manufacturing capacity in South Africa

  • Year 2021
  • Organisation South Centre
  • Author(s) Faizel Ismail (Professor and Director of the Nelson Mandela School of Public Governance, University of Cape Town and a TIPS Research Fellow)
The current global health crisis created by the COVID-19 pandemic has refocused our attention on the shortcomings of the TRIPS Agreement and the patent system in dealing with global health crises. This time around, developing countries must ensure that the TRIPS waiver succeeds in creating the momentum needed to build manufacturing…
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Monday, 20 January 2020

Regional integration in southern Africa: A platform for electricity sustainability

  • Year 2019
  • Author(s) Gaylor Montmasson-Clair and Bhavna Deonarain
Gaylor Montmasson-Clair (TIPS senior economist) and Bhavna Deonarain (TIPS researcher) have co-authored a chapter in the book Competition and Regulation for Inclusive Growth in Southern Africa, edited by Jonathan Klaaren, Simon Roberts and Imraan Valodia.  Dowload a copy of the chapter, or read it online at this link Regional Integration in Southern Africa: A Platform for…
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Friday, 12 April 2019

Inclusivity and the transformational potentials of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AFCFTA) for African countries

  • Year 2019
  • Organisation Nigerian Institute of Advanced Legal Studies
  • Author(s) Professor Faizel Ismail
  • Countries and Regions Africa
Nigerian Institute of Advanced Legal Studies: Founders' Day Lecture Series - Guest lecture by Professor Faizel Ismail*  The Nigerian Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (NIALS) Founders’ Day is an annual event which provides a platform for scholarly discourse and the exhibition of legal scholarship of outstanding academics. Over the years,…
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Friday, 12 April 2019

South Africa's natural capital challenge

  • Year 2018
  • Organisation Green Economy coalition
  • Author(s) Shakespear Mudombi (TIPS)
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
Green Economy Coaliation Blog: South Africa's natural capital challenge For the full report, see Nature in South Africa’s Transition to Sustainability: A Stocktake.
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Friday, 12 April 2019

Young, gifted and green in South Africa

  • Year 2018
  • Organisation Green Economy Coalition
  • Author(s) Shakespear Mudombi (TIPS)
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
Green Economy Coaliation Blog: Young, gifted and green in South Africa This article has been drawn from a policy brief, Using the green economy and youth inclusion for sustainable development in South Africa.
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Friday, 10 August 2018

Sustainability Transitions in South Africa

  • Year 2018
  • Organisation Routledge Studies in Sustainability
Sustainability Transitions in South Africa - Edited by Najma Mohamed     TIPS collaborates on book investigating South Africa’s progress in transitioning to a just and sustainable development pathway South Africa’s progress in transitioning to a low-carbon, resource-efficient and pro-employment development path is the focus of a book that brings together…
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Friday, 10 August 2018

Inequality in South Africa

  • Year 2018
  • Organisation New South African Review
  • Author(s) Neva Makgetla
TIPS Senior Economist Neva Makgetla has a chapter on Inequality in South Africa in the New South African Review 6: The crisis of inequality. Essays in this volume demonstrate how the consequences of inequality extend throughout society, crippling the quest for social justice, polarising the politics, skewing economic outcomes and bringing…
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Friday, 10 August 2018

South Africa’s renewable energy experience: Inclusive growth lessons

  • Year 2017
  • Organisation Centre for Competition, Regulation and Economic Development (CCRED
  • Author(s) Gaylor Montmasson-Clair and Reena das Nair
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
Competition Law and Economic Regulation : Addressing Market Power in Southern Africa TIPS Senior Economist: Sustainable Growth Gaylor Montmasson-Clair has co-authored a chapter with Reena das Nair of the Centre for Competition, Regulation and Economic Development (CCRED) on South Africa’s renewable energy experience: Inclusive growth lessons in this volume of papers selected…
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Sunday, 24 September 2017

Estimating publicly-mobilised private finance for climate action: A South African case study

  • Year 2017
  • Organisation OECD Environment Working Papers, No. 125
  • Author(s) Lauren McNicoll, Raphaël Jachnik (OECD), Gaylor Montmasson-Clair and Shakespear Mudombi, Trade & Industrial Policy Strategies (TIPS)
This study estimates and analyses publicly-mobilised private finance for climate action in South Africa, between 2010 and 2015. The mobilisation effect of public climate finance on private finance is first estimated through an analysis and attribution of project-level co-finance data. A pilot-methodology (the investor perspective) then expands the analysis to also incorporate the…
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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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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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Monday, 01 December 2014

Lessons from South Africa's Renewable Energy Regulatory and Procurement Experience

  • Year 2014
  • Organisation Journal of Economic and Financial Sciences, September 2014
  • Author(s) Gaylor Montmasson-Clair; Georgina Ryan
South Africa's Renewable Energy Independent Power Producer (REIPP) procurement programme is hailed worldwide as a model for renewable energy procurement. Its success is far from experimental and haphazard and points directly to lessons acquired prior to, and during, the launch and running of the programme. This article explores the journey…
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Saturday, 29 November 2014

The Impacts of Social and Economic Inequality on Economic Development in South Africa

  • Year 2014
  • Organisation UNDP
  • Author(s) Kate Philip, Mbofholowo Tsedu and Meshack Zwane
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
Twenty years after the end of apartheid South Africa is a different place. It has a well-institutionalized democracy. Significant gains have been made in social equity and in reducing extreme poverty. Yet poverty, unemployment and inequality remain South Africa's most pressing problems. Social change and enhanced access to rights have…
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Wednesday, 10 September 2014

How Economies Grow: Alice Amsden and the Real World Economics of Late Industrialization

  • Year 2014
  • Organisation TIPS; WITS
  • Author(s) Stephanie Seguino
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
Paper presented at the Alice Amsden Memorial Lecture, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa as part of the African Programme on Rethinking Development Economics 2014 public lectures. Memorial lecture co-hosted by TIPS.   ABOUT THE AUTHOR Stephanie Seguino is Professor of Economics at the University of Vermont, USA; Professorial Research Associate…
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Saturday, 01 March 2014

Challenges to Regional Infrastructure Development

  • Year 2012
  • Organisation This paper was funded by and prepared for the Development Bank of Southern Africa in 2012.
  • Author(s) Ellen Hagerman (TIPS Research Fellow)
This report is a survey of the on-going challenges to the development and implementation of regional infrastructure projects in Southern Africa with a specific focus on the North-South Corridor. The report incorporates both information and analysis based on consultations with about 50 stakeholders working on, or associated with, regional infrastructure…
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Monday, 03 February 2014

Fighting corruption and promoting competition

  • Year 2014
  • Organisation OECD Global Forum on Competition paper by David Lewis, Corruption Watch and Reena Das Nair, TIPS
  • Author(s) David Lewis, Reena DasNair
This paper examines the interface between corruption and competition. The forms of corruption looked at concern the decision-making powers of public officials and elected representatives that are located at the interface between the public sector and private sector (that is, the business sector), or what may be otherwise characterised as…
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Monday, 09 September 2013

South African Green Economy Modelling Report

  • Year 2013
  • Author(s) United Nations Environment Programme
The South African Green Economy Modelling (SAGEM) Report explores the question of whether equal or higher growth could be attained with a more sustainable, equitable and resilient economy. South Africa views a green economy as a sustainable development path that is based on addressing the interdependence between economic growth, social…
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Wednesday, 10 April 2013

Regulating for Clean Electricity and Heat in Poor Households: The roles of the South African Development State and Private Sector

  • Year 2013
  • Author(s) Du Plooy, P. Boiling Point Issue 61, Climate Change: Adaptation, Resilience and Energy Security
  There is a role for a developmental state to drive access to modern energy throughout the economy, but particularly for poor households. While the technological solutions are understood, implementing them needs a policy and regulatory environment that encourages investment in these technologies by households, governments and the private sector. 
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Tuesday, 12 October 2010

Community Work Programme Annual Report 2009/2010

  • Year 2010
  • Organisation TIPS
  • Author(s) TIPS
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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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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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