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  E-commerce for exporting garments from South Africa: digital dividend or leap of faith?

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2003

  This paper attempts to understand whether leading export-oriented garment producers in South Africa are using business to business (B2B) e-commerce to expand their reach into new markets, and to prepare and complete transactions with overseas buyers.
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  The currency premium and local-currency denominated debt costs in South Africa

  OECD Development Centre, 2004

  This paper aims at identifying the determinants of South African currency premia, which usually form an important element of debt cost in developing countries, in order to assess the scope of South African economic policies for narrowing the spread on local-currency denominated debt.The paper argues that South Africa is one among very few emerging economies able to borrow long-term domestically
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  TRIPS, pharmaceutical patents, and access to essential medicines: a long way from Seattle to Doha

  Médecins Sans Frontières, 2003

  Public health advocates welcomed the Doha Declaration as an important achievement because it gave primacy to public health over private intellectual property, and clarified World Trade Organization (WTO) Members' rights to use trade-related aspects of intellectual property rights (TRIPS) safeguards.
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  To liberalise or not to liberalise? a review of the South African government’s trade policy

  Southern African Regional Poverty Network, 2003

  This paper argues that trade liberalisation is appropriate in South Africa subject to the need to maintain social stability. The author recommends that the state must play an active role, in collaboration with business and key civil society institutions, in promoting South Africa’s integration into the global economy.
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  Efficiency or equality? Dilemmas of regulation and competition policy in South Africa

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  As vital sectors of the South African economy are restructured, can regulation and competition policies meet the post-apartheid challenges of redressing ingrained inequality and widening opportunities to participate in the economy? Is South Africa setting up too many regulatory bodies? Are regulators, rather than elected representatives, making policy?
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  Unlimited companies: the developmental impacts of an investment agreement at the WTO

  ActionAid International, 2003

  This paper presents Actionaids response to the issues surroundings the Cancun Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), to be held in September 2003.ActionAid is concerned that an investment agreement negotiated at the WTO could inflict lasting damage on the livelihoods of poor people in developing countries.
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  HIV/AIDS, economics and governance in South Africa: key issues in understanding response. A literature review

  Centre for AIDS Development, Research and Evaluation, South Africa, 2002

  This review of economic research on HIV/AIDS in South Africa states that its aims were: to identify completed and ongoing research conducted on the economic aspects of HIV/AIDS and its implications for governance in South Africaprovide a comprehensive bibliography of literature in the areamake a preliminary assessment of the quality of the existing research, to identify trends and
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  Prospects for financial sector reform in the context of regional integration in SADC

  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.
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  World Trade Organisation agreements: implications for equity and health in Southern Africa

  EQUINET: Network for Equity in Health in Southern Africa, 2000

  This paper investigates the consequences of WTO agreements relating to health, and primarily the TRIPS agreement on health care and drug access for Southern African Development Community (SADC) countries.The paper provides a brief review of GATT /WTO and WTO agreements relating to health.
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  Reform and opportunity: the changing role and patterns of trade in South Africa and SADC

  Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies, South Africa, 2001

  Paper examines the changing role of trade in South Africa and SADC from different vantage points. It also reviews progress in liberalising South Africa's trade regime.

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