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    South Africa, Africa, and international investment agreements: policy brief

    Centre for Conflict Resolution, University of Cape Town (UCT), 2014
    Foreign direct investment is important for economic development, helping host countries to generate inflows of capital and finance; technological innovation; managerial best practices; and access to global market.
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    South Africa, Africa, and the BRICS: progress, problems, and prospects: policy brief

    Centre for Conflict Resolution, University of Cape Town (UCT), 2014
    The Centre for Conflict Resolution (CCR), Cape Town, South Africa, hosted a two-day policy advisory group seminar in Tshwane (Pretoria), South Africa, 2014.
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    South Africa and the BRICS: progress, problems, and prospects

    Centre for Conflict Resolution, University of Cape Town (UCT), 2014
    The BRICS countries played a pivotal role in enabling other developing and emerging economies to weather the impact of the global financial crisis of 2008–2009. Participation in the BRICS grouping offers an opportunity for South Africa to deepen and broaden its bilateral engagement with Brazil, Russia, India, and China.
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    Anchoring growth and employment: the interaction between manufacturing and services in South Africa

    Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies, South Africa, 2014
    Manufacturing has been identified as a key marker for growth and employment driver in South Africa. Yet the sector itself is no longer a major source of employment creation internationally. Using cointegration, this paper assesses the relative importance of manufacturing and service sectors in achieving long term growth and employment objectives in South Africa.
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    The challenges to reversing the decline of the apparel sector in South Africa

    Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies, South Africa, 2014
    Industrial development and export diversification of manufacturing activities is a major development objective for developing countries (LDCs). The apparel sector has traditionally been a gateway to export diversification for LDCs and is generally regarded as a first step for embarking on an export-oriented industrialisation process.
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    Technology intensive manufacturing and innovation in South Africa: a comparison with the BRIC countries and an emprical examination of technology based firms

    Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies, South Africa, 2014
    There is considerable interest in the economic progress of the BRICS and in their capacity to enter into more technologically demanding activities. But, there is considerable variation in the rate of innovation as between the BRICS.
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    Who benefits from South Africa’s bilateral trade agreements?

    Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies, South Africa, 2008
    Trade liberal is ation is a key component of South Africa’s post-Apartheid development strategy, aimed at accelerating growth and creating employment. There is evidence suggesting that multilateral reforms over the last decade have been successful.
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    South Africa’s current and future trade agreements

    Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies, South Africa, 2010
    South Africa initiated the first trade agreement with the European Union (EU) at the turn of the 21st century. Whilst the Trade and Development Cooperation Agreement (TDCA) was put into place follow ing prolonged negotiations, this was followed by the implementation of the Trade protocol with neighbouring member states of the Southern African Development Community (SADC).
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    How the state and private sector can partner to boost support to SMEs: Lessons from Chile & Malaysia

    Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies, South Africa, 2012
    For South Africa, the promotion of small businesses remains key to creating jobs and a more equitable economy. Evidence from Chile and Malaysia – both countries with similar emerging economies as South Africa - reveals that by partnering to provide finance and business support, the government and the private sector can boost support to small businesses.
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    The geographic designation of Special Economic Zones

    Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies, South Africa, 2014
    Special economic zones (SEZs) emerged internationally as a policy to support industrial development in particular by providing for the introduction of targeted incentives and infrastructure. Internationally, despite their name, they are often effectively delinked from specific geographic areas in order to achieve these aims.

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