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21 February 2019

Inclusive business as employment generator in rural settlements

  • Year 2019
  • Organisation TIPS
  • Author(s) Wytske O. Chamberlain
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
The aim of this report is to identify how commercial businesses can generate employment opportunities in rural areas through inclusive business models. 
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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…
Published in External Publications
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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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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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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Changing market and policy dynamics of clean energy and economic innovation and low carbon development pathways in South Africa: Drivers, trends, and outlook

  • Year 2017
  • Organisation Rutgers University, US
  • Author(s) Jacob Park (Rutgers University)
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
Session 1: Renewable energy and inclusive growth
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Capital intensity, employment and sustainability in the South African manufacturing sector

  • Year 2017
  • Organisation University of Cape Town
  • Author(s) Anthony Black; Stephanie Craig; Paul Dunne
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
Session 2: Manufacturing and sustainable development: South African experiences
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The nature and role of industrial symbiosis in South Africa

  • Year 2017
  • Organisation GreenCape
  • Author(s) Sarah O’Carrol; Lauren Basson; Jarrod Lyons; Sam Smout; Henry Nuwarinda
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
Session 2: Manufacturing and sustainable development: South African experiences
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Growth and development in the cosmetics, soaps and detergents regional value chains: South Africa and Zambia

  • Year 2017
  • Organisation CCRED; ZIPAR
  • Author(s) Teboho Bosiu; Farasai Chinanga; Mwanda Phiri
  • Countries and Regions Zambia
Session 3: Manufacturing and sustainable development: International experiences
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What are the factors hampering the manufacturing sector performance in Namibia?

  • Year 2017
  • Organisation National Planning Commission, Namibia
  • Author(s) Victoria Nambinga
  • Countries and Regions Namibia
Session 3: Manufacturing and sustainable development: International experiences
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Solar thermal for decarbonising industrial process heat: industrial development without carbon emissions

  • Year 2017
  • Organisation WWF-SA
  • Author(s) Manisha Gulati; Louise Scholtz
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
Session 5: Carbon-intensive industries and sustainability
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Impact of climate change policy on the cement industry in India

  • Year 2017
  • Organisation University Business School, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India
  • Author(s) Pooja Pal
  • Countries and Regions India
Session 5: Carbon-intensive industries and sustainability
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Decarbonisation and the transport sector: a socio-economic analysis of transport sector futures In South Africa

  • Year 2017
  • Organisation Energy Research Centre, University of Cape Town
  • Author(s) T Caetano; B Merven; F Hartley; F Ahjum
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
Session 6: Towards a sustainable transport sector 
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Economic benefits of extended producer responsibility initiatives in South Africa the case of waste tyres

  • Year 2017
  • Organisation University of Cape Town
  • Author(s) Faaiqa Hartley; Tara Caetano; Reza C Daniels
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
Session 6: Towards a sustainable transport sector 
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Sustainable agriculture for a better economy: policy planning and public financing

  • Year 2017
  • Organisation Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries
  • Author(s) Selebogo Leshoro
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
Session 7: Agricultural value chains and sustainability
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Towards labour absorptive, low-carbon economic development: identifying interventions for the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions in key agricultural value chains in the Western Cape

  • Year 2017
  • Organisation GreenCape
  • Author(s) Pieter Frederik Janse van Vuuren; Catherine Pineo; Lauren Basson; Usisipho Gogela
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
Session 7: Agricultural value chains and sustainability
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Growth and development in the sugar to confectionery value chain in Zambia and South Africa

  • Year 2017
  • Organisation ZIPAR; CCRED
  • Author(s) Francis Ziba; Reena das Nair; Maria Nkhonjera
Session 7: Agricultural value chains and sustainability
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Increasing carbon financing: A strategy for climate change mitigation in Uganda

  • Year 2017
  • Organisation Kabale University, Kabale, Uganda
  • Author(s) Jennifer Turyatemba Tumushabe
Session 8: Financing the sustainability transition
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A benchmarking paper on the role of infrastructure in economic development and promoting an inclusive low-carbon future in South Africa

  • Year 2017
  • Organisation TIPS
  • Author(s) Struan Robertson
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
Session 8: Financing the sustainability transition
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Some learnings from the water, food and energy nexus about decolonising the green economy for an Anthropocene Southern Africa

  • Year 2017
  • Organisation Wits School of Governance
  • Author(s) Mike Muller
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
 Session 9: Unpacking the water-energy-food nexus
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Fragmented sectoral approach on water, energy and food in South Africa

  • Year 2017
  • Organisation The Innovation Hub
  • Author(s) Ntombi Radebe-Tsotetsi
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
Session 9: Unpacking the water-energy-food nexus
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Climate change vulnerability and value chain assessment in Egypt and Kenya

  • Year 2017
  • Organisation Sustainability & Resilience (su-re.co)
  • Author(s) Takeshi Takama, Ibnu Budiman, Novelita Wahyu Mondamina, Yudiandra Yuwono, Cynthia J Ismail
Session 9: Unpacking the water-energy-food nexus
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Development towards green growth in Gauteng province: Opportunities and challenges

  • Year 2017
  • Organisation The Innovation Hub
  • Author(s) Ndidzulafhi Nenngwekhulu
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
Session 10: Sub-national experiences and sustainability 
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An assessment of the influence of growth poles on land use transformations in Uganda: Evidence from Kampala Industrial and Business Park

  • Year 2017
  • Organisation Makerere University, Uganda
  • Author(s) Aaron Achoroi
Session 10: Sub-national experiences and sustainability 
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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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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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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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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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Changing structure of the mining industry

  • Year 2016
  • Organisation TIPS
  • Author(s) Dr Neva Makgetla
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
Session 1: Changes in the South African Industry 
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Analysis of investment in mining

  • Year 2016
  • Author(s) Keith Lockwood
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
Session 1: Changes in the South African Industry
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