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    Trade liberalisation in Sub-Saharan Africa : case study of South Africa

    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 replacement of QRs with equivalent tariffs and other duties. This distinguishes the process in South Africa from that which has happened in other African liberalisations.
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    Determinants of the real exchange rate in South Africa

    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 the quarterly real exchange rate, 1970:1–1995:1.
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    Short - term stabilization versus long - term price stability : evaluating Namibia's membership of the Common Monetary Area

    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 associated with the loss of monetary autonomy are small; and (iii) that there exists a wide range of instruments to address the effects of asymmetric shocks, irrespective
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    The role of the small and medium enterprise sector in Latin America: implications for South Africa

    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 current economic setting in most Latin American countries suggests that if the small and medium enterprise sector does not perform well during the next couple of decades, overal
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    Structural adjustment and agricultural policy reform in South Africa / Johan Van Rooyen ... [et al.]

    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.
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    Financing Durban's development: 1970-1998

    School of Development Studies, University of Kwazulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa, 2000
    This paper therefore represents a first attempt at describing and analysing some aspects of Durban's financial scene in the period between 1970-98; it also attempts to come to (at this stage) an impressionistic view of the kinds of development - industrial, commercial and infrastructural - that the local, national and international financial and corporate sectors made possible in this city.The
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    Effects of fiscal, monetary and exchange rate policy on the structure of South African growth and employment

    Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies, South Africa, 2000
    The major thesis of the paper is that the macroeconomic policy environment has favoured financial stability over economic growth and that this has been an important element in the failure of the economy to meet the targets of the government's macroeconomic program: Growth, Employment, and Redistribution (GEAR).

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