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Industrial policy forms the core of TIPS’s work. In this context, TIPS supports the Department of Trade and Industry (the dti), the Departmenet of Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation (DPME), the Department of Science and Technology (DST) and several other departments and stakeholders with targeted studies to support policy development for industrial and trade policy as well as manufacturing growth.
TIPS undertakes research, among others, into national and regional sectors, value chains and clusters; the impact of state and private institutions on manufacturing growth and diversification; the barriers to entry to small and medium enterprise in manufacturing; the extent and nature of innovation; and the impact of manufacturing on broader economic growth and development, income distribution and job creation.
Trade research has also been an important research area of TIPS since its establishment. TIPS has looked at many different aspects of international trade, including country studies, trade policy, export development and the relationship between trade and industrial policy.
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19 May 2020
The electrotechnical industry regional value chain in Southern Africa A case for South Africa and Zambia
- Year 2019
- Organisation TIPS and ZIPAR
- Author(s) Sithembiso Mtanga (TIPS), Francis Ziba (ZIPAR) and Bernard Tembo (ZIPAR)
- Countries and Regions Zambia
The Southern African Development Community (SADC) member states have placed industrial development at the core of the region’s integrated development agenda. This report by Trade & Industrial Policy Strategies (TIPS) and the Zambia Institute for Policy Analysis & Research (ZIPAR) is part of a programme that seeks to identify existing…
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Trade and Industry
- Year 2020
- Organisation TIPS
- Author(s) Neva Makgetla and Saul Levin (TIPS)
- Countries and Regions Southern African Development Community (SADC)
Greater regional integration would support economic diversification and industrialisation in Southern Africa by expanding markets for consumers and capital goods as well as drawing together capacities from different of countries. It would, however, require a greater degree of specialisation between nations to permit economies of scale. In this context, the…
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Trade and Industry
- Year 2017
- Organisation TIPS
- Countries and Regions South Africa
To assist in improving the regulatory environment for small business, the Department of Performance, Monitoring and Evaluation and Department of Small Business Development requested the Employment Promotion Programme contract Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies to conduct a study on the national regulatory burdens on small business. The broad objectives of…
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- Regulatory burdens on small business: Options for improvement (3461 Downloads)
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- Year 2019
- Organisation For the Department of Trade and Industry
- Author(s) Sandy Lowitt (TIPS)
- Countries and Regions South Africa
Customs are charged with ensuring maximum trade facilitation and decreasing the time and costs associated with clearing consignments into and out of the country. Non-compliance and customs fraud are, however, on the rise through multiple channels including misdeclaration of goods, under and overvaluation, misrepresentation of country of origin, round tripping,…
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- Year 2019
- Organisation UNU-WIDER
- Author(s) Gillian Chigumira (TIPS)
WIDER Working Paper 2019/70 This working paper, Assessment of demand in agro-processing machinery in the SADC region: A case study of the maize-milling machinery value chain in South Africa and Zambia, forms part of the project: Southern Africa – Towards Inclusive Economic Development (SA-TIED) Abstract The SADC Industrialization Strategy and Roadmap…
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13 October 2019
Charity begins at home - The political economy of non-tariff barriers to trade in Southern Africa
- Year 2019
- Organisation UNU-WIDER
- Author(s) Tracy Ledger (TIPS)
- Countries and Regions Southern African Development Community (SADC)
WIDER Working Paper 2019/61 This working paper, Charity begins at home The political economy of non-tariff barriers to trade in Southern Africa, forms part of the project: Southern Africa – Towards Inclusive Economic Development (SA-TIED) Abstract Increased intra-regional trade in southern Africa will have a positive impact on eonomic growth. However, this…
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25 July 2019
Moving up the copper value chain in Southern Africa
WIDER Working Paper 2019/38 This working paper, Moving up the copper value chain in Southern Africa, forms part of the project: Southern Africa – Towards Inclusive Economic Development (SA-TIED) Abstract t: Interest in industrial hemp has revived in the past 20 years. Malawi is considering legalizing the cultivation of industrial hemp as an…
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Trade and Industry
- Year 2019
- Organisation TIPS
- Author(s) Dr Faizel Ismail and Jay Grunder
- Countries and Regions South Africa
This paper looks at the future of South Africa-United Kingdom trade relations in the post-Brexit period. It provides a brief background and looks at the history of trade relations until the onset of democracy in1994. It then looks at SA-UK trade relations since 1994, including the negotiations the led to…
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- Year 2018
- Organisation Department of Trade and Industry: Industry 4.0 project
- Author(s) Trade & Industrial Policy Strategies (TIPS)
- Countries and Regions South Africa
Industry 4.0 project This series of papers was commissioned by the Future Industrial Production Technologies Chief Directorate of the Department of Trade and Industry (the dti). This unit is focused on preparing South African industry for the fourth industrial revolution. Saul Levin (TIPS) directed the project, and Dr Shawn Cunningham…
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- Year 2018
- Organisation Department of Trade and Industry: Industry 4.0 project
- Author(s) Trade & Industrial Policy Strategies (TIPS)
- Countries and Regions South Africa
Industry 4.0 project This series of papers was commissioned by the Future Industrial Production Technologies Chief Directorate of the Department of Trade and Industry (the dti). This unit is focused on preparing South African industry for the fourth industrial revolution. Saul Levin (TIPS) directed the project, and Dr Shawn Cunningham…
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