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    Advanced manufacturing and jobs in South Africa: an examination of perceptions and trends

    Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies, South Africa, 2014
    Advanced manufacturing has been recognised globally as important to reverse de--industrialisation and to create decent, well-paying jobs. However, lingering perceptions regarding the negative correlation of advanced manufacturing and technological advancement on employment creates resistance to the adoption of advanced manufacturing practices by industry.
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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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    Analysis of export and employment opportunities for the South African manufacturing industry

    Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies, South Africa, 2014
    The South African government recognises the importance of promoting manufactured exports as a means of ensuring sustainable economic growth and job creation.
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    Productivity spillovers from FDI in Sub Saharan Africa. Evidence from a dynamic framework

    Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies, South Africa, 2014
    Paper presented at conference on Manufacturing Led Growth for Employment & Equality, May 2014 South Africa. The focus of this paper is in two fold. Firstly it attempts to investigate whether FDI inflows to Sub Saharan African countries generate productivity spillovers for the period 1980-2010.
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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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    The potential of using an input voucher system to integrate the commercial and non-commercial input distribution systems in the Southern African Development Community

    Food, Agriculture and Natural Resource Policy Analysis Network, 2007
    Smallholder farmers in southern Africa use low purchased-in-put technologies and as a result, produce low yields and face chronic food insecurity for two to five months of the year. The problems such households face are compounded by natural calamities such as droughts and floods.
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    The role of experts in India's economic growth

    Institute of Economic Growth, India, 2014
    One of the important issues that have dominated the debate in the international growth literature is the role of exports in economic growth. Many economists have argued that more rapid growth of exports can lead to higher economic growth. This is the so-called export-led growth hypothesis (ELGH).
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    China's manufacturing success: lessons for India

    Institute of Economic Growth, India, 2014
    For India to achieve its stated goals of reviving its manufacturing sector and providing jobs to the tens of millions of its unemployed youth, it must design policies targeted at low cost mass manufacturing, and will need massive investment, including major contributions from foreign investors. There are crucial lessons for India in China's success in the manufacturing sector.
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    An empirical assessment of the impact of trade liberalization on employment in South Africa

    Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies, South Africa, 2010
    This study seeks to model the effects of trade on employment in South Africa in a Labour Demand framework. The study uses aggregated data, as opposed to a number of studies that have used either factor content or growth accounting approaches.

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