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    A possible SACU/China free trade agreement (FTA): implications for the South African manufacturing sector

    Trade Law Centre for Southern Africa, 2006
    The South Africa Customs Union (SACU) and China are considering entering into a bilateral free trade agreement (FTA). The objective of this paper is to analyse the possible implications of this FTA for South Africa.
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    South African merchandise trade with China

    Trade Law Centre for Southern Africa, 2006
    This paper assesses the trading relationship between South Africa and China.
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    What’s the matter with African industry?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006
    The share of manufacturing output generated in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) has remained persistently low for several decades – a mere 0.8 percent of the world’s total. Industrialisation strategies after independence aimed at substituting imports did not exploit links between branches of domestic manufacturing.
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    Dangling by a thread: how sharp are the Chinese scissors?

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2006
    This report examines the impact that China’s booming export industry is having on the textile and furniture exports and jobs in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). The report finds that:China’s economic expansion has significant implications for SSA industry and growth by indirectly excluding outward-oriented SSA producers from global markets, and directly it squeezes locally-focused producers
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    Sending money to South Africa from the UK

    Sending Money Home?, 2006
    This site and accompanying leaflet is aimed at people wanting to send money to South Africa from the UK.
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    Down the plughole: why bringing water into WTO services negotiations would unleash a development disaster

    ActionAid International, 2005
    Poor countries are under intense pressure in the World Trade Organization's GATS negotiations to open their service markets and "progressively liberalise" key sectors – such as water delivery – to foreign corporations.
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    Regionalizing international migration: lessons for SADC

    Southern African Migration Project, 2004
    This paper argues that the development of a regional temporary worker’s regime is needed in southern Africa if integrated regional development is to succeed.
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    The GATS, South African local governments and water services

    Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, 2005
    This briefing paper provides background information on the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) agreement.
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    Africa's first welfare state: the experience of South African firms doing business in Botswana

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2005
    This executive summary presents the experience of South African businesses operating in Botswana. The purpose of the study was to identify some of the pitfalls associated with doing business in a country such as Botswana, while also giving credit to some of the success stories. Findings include:
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    NEPAD, the city, and the immigrant

    University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, 2004
    South Africa has experienced a large influx of migrants from other African countries since the early 1990s, reflecting the lifting of apartheid-era boycotts against travel to South Africa; increasing political and social turmoil, for example in Rwanda, Sudan, Somalia and Nigeria; and a growing economic crisis.

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