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Economic linkages between South Africa and Mozambique.
C. N Castel-Branco / Southern African Regional Poverty Network, 2002
The study tries to address, amongst other questions, what the weaknesses and strengths of integration of the two economies are. It therfore focuses on the analysis of flows of goods and services, labour and capital between the two eco...
Should home countries play a greater role in governing corporate responsibility?
H. Ward / Chatham House [Royal Institute of International Affairs], UK, 2002
This Briefing Paper looks at two sets of legal actions that attempted to secure transnational corporate accountability. The cases are examples of increasing efforts to establish ‘foreign direct liability’ – holding pare...
Review of the Africa's economic performance and near-term prospects.
UN Economic Commission for Africa, 2002
How did Africa’s economy perform in the global economic downturn of 2001? Africa was the only developing region to see faster growth in 2001 due to Changing commodity prices which provided mixed blessing...
Tax rates in Brazil and South Africa
M. Moore; E.S. Lieberman / Governance and Development Review, IDS, 2002
Brazil and South Africa have much in common. In particular, they are both large middle income countries with very high levels of income inequality where whites historically have dominated over blacks. They differ markedly in te...
Incomplete financial sector reform in most SADC countries represents an opportunity for regional co-operation and integration
R. Mowatt / Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies, South Africa, 2001
This paper looks at the role that SADC can realistically play in developing the financial systems of the countries of Southern Africa. The reviews some of the literature and theory around financial sector reform relating it to Souther...
Will the SME sector be pivotal to economic performance in Latin America over at least the next decade?
A. Berry / Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies, South Africa, 2001
This paper makes the case that the performance of the small and medium enterprise (SME) sector will be pivotal to overall economic performance in Latin America over at least the next decade or two. Paper asserts that the curren...
Short - term stabilization versus long - term price stability : evaluating Namibia's membership of the Common Monetary Area
Meshack Tunee Tjirongo / Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, 1995
It was found in this paper that (i) because of the high degree of openness of the Namibian economy and its small size, the use of nominal exchange rate as an instrument of adjustment will have limited effects; (ii) that the costs asso...
Determinants of the real exchange rate in South Africa
Janine Aron; Ibrahim Elbadawi; Brian Kahn / Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, 1997
The real exchange rate is a key policy variable in South Africa's open economy. A cointegration framework is used with single equation equilibrium correction models to investigate the short-run and long-run equilibrium determinants of...
Trade liberalisation in Sub-Saharan Africa : case study of South Africa
Carolyn Jenkins; Michael Bleaney; Merle Holden / Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, 1995
A striking feature of South Africa's trade liberalisation is that, until 1995, it did not involve any import liberalisation. The focus of earlier liberalisation was the reduction of anti-export bias, and, on the import side, the repla...
Structural adjustment and agricultural policy reform in South Africa / Johan Van Rooyen ... [et al.]
Johan Van Rooyen / Development Experience Clearinghouse, USAID, 1996
This study offers an opportunity to reflect on the accomplishments and challenges of economic reform initiatives undertaken in pre-democratic South Africa. The report should serve as a guiding tool for government and donors alike in p...
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