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SADC Trade Development (28)

The SADC Trade Development project was a partnership between TIPS and the Australian Agency for International Development. It involved research projects on trade reform and the development of a trade database, which provided trade statistics for the region as a public good. Although the project has ended, TIPS continues to host the SACD Trade Database.  www.sadctrade.org.

Monday, 22 February 2010

An Empirical Assessment of the Impact of Trade Liberalisation on Employment in South Africa

  • Year 2010
  • Organisation TIPS
  • Author(s) Evans K. Chinembiri
This study seeks to model the effects of trade on employment in South Africa in a Labour Demand framework. The study uses aggregated data, as opposed to a number of studies that have used either factor content or growth accounting approaches. The paper specifically seeks to determine the extent to…
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Sunday, 17 January 2010

The Impact of SADC Trade on Energy Use

  • Year 2009
  • Organisation TIPS
  • Author(s) Marcel Kohler
  • Countries and Regions Southern African Development Community (SADC)
Trade patterns change as a result of the international specialisation of production and the increased integration of world markets. This is especially evident in small open economies such as the countries that make up the SADC region. In 2000, the share of SADC industrial production that was exported stood at 12%;…
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Sunday, 17 January 2010

The Impact of Mode IV on Trade in Goods in the SADC Region: The Case of South Africa

  • Year 2009
  • Organisation TIPS
  • Author(s) Albert Makochekanwa
  • Countries and Regions South Africa, Southern African Development Community (SADC)
Information on the impact of immigration on a host country's trade with particular reference to the African continent and the SADC region remains scant, if indeed it is ever available. This study seeks to fill this gap with an analysis of data. More specifically, the main objective of this study is…
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Tuesday, 27 October 2009

Contribution to Trade Policy Review - Overview of Africa and SADC Trade 2006-2008

  • Year 2009
  • Organisation TIPS
  • Countries and Regions Africa
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Tuesday, 27 October 2009

Contribution to Trade Policy Review - Overview of South Africa's Trade 2006-2008

  • Year 2009
  • Organisation TIPS
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
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Tuesday, 27 October 2009

Trade Policy and Trade Flow Analysis- SADC Regional integration: What role have bilateral trade agreements played in promoting intra-regional trade?

  • Year 2009
  • Organisation Commonwealth Secretariat ‘Hub & Spokes’ Project
  • Author(s) James Maringwa
  • Countries and Regions Southern African Development Community (SADC)
Member countries of the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) engaged in a number of bilateral trade liberalisation agreements and initiatives from as way back as the 1950s, the main objective being to increase bilateral trade flows through deeper opening and access of regional markets. Southern African countries saw these ‘country…
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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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Wednesday, 01 December 2004

Working Paper 1-2004: A Dynamic Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) Model for South Africa: Extending the Static IFPRI Model

  • Year 2004
  • Organisation TIPS
  • Author(s) James Thurlow
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
Computable general equilibrium (CGE) models are widely used for policy-analysis in many countries. In the past a number of CGE models have been developed for South Africa, and used to assess a broad range of policy issues. However, the perceived complexity of this analytical approach, and the concentration of capacity…
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Monday, 01 December 2003

Regulating South Africas Citrus Export Commodity Chain(s) after Liberalisation

  • Year 2003
  • Organisation School of Geography, Archaeology and Environmental Studies University of the Witwatersrand
  • Author(s) Charles Mather
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
This paper discusses 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 are…
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Monday, 01 December 2003

Long-Run Exogeneity Between Saving And Investment: Evidence From South Africa

  • Year 2003
  • Organisation TIPS
  • Author(s) Kevin Nell
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
This paper investigates South Africa's saving-investment behaviour between 1962 and 2001. The results show that due to the unlimited nature of net capital inflows (foreign debt) from 1962 to 1976, saving and investment were not bound by a long-run solvency constraint and thus unrelated in the long run. By contrast,…
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Monday, 01 December 2003

Trade Policy Development in a Coherent Macroeconomic Framework

  • Year 2003
  • Organisation TIPS
  • Author(s) Xavier Carim
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
The overriding objectives of the Nepad programme are economic growth and sustainable development. If it is accepted that trade contributes positively to these objectives, the next question that arises is how to improve African countries' export performance. The ability to improve export performance requires a broader discussion of trade, industrial…
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Monday, 01 December 2003

Armington Elasticities for South Africa: Long- and Short-Run Industry Level Estimates

  • Year 2003
  • Organisation TIPS
  • Author(s) Kathy Gibson
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
In economics, the effects of tariff protection and tariff reform remain a contentious, fervently debated issue.1 In South Africa, decades of high tariff protection, of which domestic manufacturing sectors primarily benefited, are being followed by a period of substantial tariff reform. To this end, endorsement by the South African government…
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Monday, 01 December 2003

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

  • Year 2003
  • Organisation TIPS
  • Author(s) Ron Sandrey
  • Countries and Regions South Africa, Southern African Development Community (SADC)
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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Sunday, 15 June 2003

Bilateral Trade Between South Africa and Brazil

  • Year 2003
  • Organisation TIPS
  • Author(s) Carol Molate; Dirk Ernst van Seventer
  • Countries and Regions Brazil, South Africa
In this short report we examine South African trade with Brazil for decade up to 2001. First we look at the absolute values, trends, patterns at the aggregate level and somehow disaggregated level of 22 commodities clusters. The aim of this section is to provide a first round analysis of…
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Sunday, 15 June 2003

A Development Perspective on EU Trade Policies and their Implications for Central and Eastern European Countries

  • Year 2003
  • Organisation TIPS
  • Author(s) Faizel Ismail
  • Countries and Regions European Union (EU)
This paper will begin by outlining the policy framework that informs EU trade policies and will set out a development perspective that informs the evaluation of EU trade policies. The paper then discusses the issue of adjustment in the EU and evaluates the EU track record in key industries of…
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Sunday, 15 June 2003

An Analysis of Intra-SADC Trade

  • Year 2003
  • Organisation TIPS
  • Author(s) Ximena Gonzalez-Nunez
  • Countries and Regions Southern African Development Community (SADC)
The SADC Free Trade Agreement (FTA) came into effect recently. Periodic examination of intra-SADC trade flows is an important element of monitoring the impact of the FTA.
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Sunday, 15 June 2003

South Africa-Finland Trade Part 2: Identifying Export Potential

  • Year 2003
  • Organisation TIPS
  • Author(s) TIPS
  • Countries and Regions European Union (EU), South Africa
Of concern to domestic policy makers is that trade between Finland and South Africa is very much biased in favour of the former country. Set against this backdrop, Trade and Investment South Africa (TISA) of the South African Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), together with the Finnish Embassy in…
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Sunday, 15 June 2003

A Trade Performance Index for South Africa

  • Year 2003
  • Organisation TIPS
  • Author(s) Carol Molate and Dirk van Seventer
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
The Trade Performance Index (TPI) is a tool developed by the International Trade Centre (ITC) for assessing and monitoring the multi-faceted dimensions of export performance and competitiveness of countries and their principal export sectors. At present, the TPI covers 184 countries and 14 different sectors. It reveals how competitive and…
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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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Saturday, 01 December 2001

Reform and Opportunity: The Changing Role and Patterns of Trade in South Africa and SADC

  • Year 2001
  • Organisation The World Bank
  • Author(s) Jeffrey Lewis
  • Countries and Regions South Africa, Southern African Development Community (SADC)
In this paper, we examine the changing role of trade in South Africa and SADC from different vantage points. We first review progress in liberalizing South Africa's trade regime, and conclude that, while signs of progress are clear, the levels and complexity of protection continue to pose barriers to the…
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Friday, 15 June 2001

Notes on Welfare Losses of Tariffs and Tariff Protection: A Partial Equilibrium Application to South African Data

  • Year 2001
  • Organisation TIPS and University of Cape Town
  • Author(s) Dirk van Seventer; Lawrence Edwards
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
Almost immediately after the first democratic election, South African policy makers embraced the policy of trade liberalisation (see Holden 2000). To many observers, the offer made by South Africa to the World Trade Organisation (WTO) has been very generous. Various attempts to evaluate the impact of trade liberalisation on the…
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Thursday, 15 June 2000

Import Performance and Import Demand Functions for South Africa

  • Year 2000
  • Organisation TIPS
  • Author(s) Vusi Gumede
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
It is generally acknowledged that there is no sufficient, exhaustive and elaborate empirical examination of the quantitative impact of policies pertaining to import demand and economic growth in South Africa. In order to arrive at conclusive, sagacious and applicable policies on the economic growth potential of an economy, it is…
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Thursday, 15 June 2000

Endogenous Protection in a Trade Liberalising Economy: The Case of South Africa

  • Year 2000
  • Organisation TIPS
  • Author(s) Merle Holden; Daniela Casale
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
The paper aimed to establish the changes that had occurred in the institutional structures governing trade policy in South Africa during the period 1990-1998. It also examined the forces that had influenced the application of tariff policy by the major tariff setting bodies by applying various theories of endogenous protection…
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Thursday, 15 June 2000

FTAs with India and Brazil: An Initial Analysis

  • Year 2000
  • Organisation TIPS
  • Author(s) Matthew Stern; Christopher Stevens
  • Countries and Regions Brazil, India
The purpose of this report is to launch a debate on the proposed free trade agreements (FTAs) with Brazil and India by providing some preliminary analysis. Two different but complementary research methodologies have been employed, each of which provides a different perspective on the possible impact of these agreements.
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Saturday, 01 January 2000

A Critical Analysis of the Regional Trade Model for South Africa (RTMSA): Implications for Future Research

  • Year 2000
  • Organisation TIPS
  • Author(s) Nicolette Cattaneo
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
The studies of Evans (1996, 1997a,b) appear to be the most analytically ambitious attempts to address, empirically, the question of the economic desirability of a southern African free trade area (FTA).  Evans (1996) is apparently the only serious study available to date which gives detailed sectoral effects of the formation…
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Wednesday, 01 December 1999

The Impact of Trade and Structural Changes on Sectoral Employment in South Africa

  • Year 1999
  • Organisation DPRU
  • Author(s) Haroon Bhorat
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
This paper describes formal employment trends in the South African economy since 1970, through using both survey and time-series data. In addition, the study tries to understand the forces that have shaped these employment trends. The descriptive statistics reveal that the primary sectors have shed close to 1.5 million jobs…
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Tuesday, 15 June 1999

Competitiveness, International Trade and Finance in a Mineral-Rich Economy: The Case of South Africa

  • Year 1999
  • Organisation IDRC
  • Author(s) Trevor Bell; Greg Farrell; Rashad Cassim
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
The aim of this paper is to consider the relationship between competitiveness, international trade and financial factors in the South African economy. The term ‘competitiveness’ is used here in two closely related, but distinctly different, senses. One of these refers to a country’s ability ‘to realise central economic policy goals,…
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Tuesday, 01 December 1998

Free Trade with Europe - the Winners and Losers: The Results of the SMART Simulation

  • Year 1998
  • Organisation UNCTAD; TIPS
  • Author(s) Ethel Teljeur
  • Countries and Regions European Union (EU), South Africa
This study projects the impact of the proposed free trade area (FTA) between South Africa and the European Union on the bilateral trade flows between the two. The South African and European respective proposals, as formulated in 1996, served as a basis. The results are evaluated both at an aggregate…
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