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    Infrastructure and tourism development: dual approach

    Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies, South Africa, 2011
    This paper models tourist arrivals into Mauritius from various parts of the world with a view to understand the contribution of different determinants in explaining the success of the island as an international tourism destination. A dual methodological approach was adopted namely panel date and survey frameworks.
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    Examples of industrial policy approaches within regional integration initiatives - some reflections for the Southern African Customs Union (SACU)

    Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies, South Africa, 2011
    This paper forms part of a broader research project TIPS has been involved in around common regional industrial policies. It looks at three examples of regional integration: the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), the European Union and Mercosur. The focus is on understanding the drivers and motivation for regional integration in different parts of the world.
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    Current issues and debates in industrial policy – some reflections for the Southern African Customs Union (SACU)

    Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies, South Africa, 2011
    This paper forms part of a broader research project TIPS has been involved in around common regional industrial policies. It provides an overview of key issues in global industrial policy literature.
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    A re-examination of SADC industrial development policies & lessons for SACU

    Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies, South Africa, 2011
    The absence of growth in intra-SADC trade in industrial products since the tariff phase-downs were initiated prompted by the ratification of the SADC Protocol on Trade in 2000 continues to generate interest amongst policymakers and other stakeholders as it appears that removal of market access constraint alone is not a sufficient panacea.
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    Negotiating trade in services liberalisation – reflections on SACU’s experience

    Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies, South Africa, 2011
    For many of the African states, negotiations to liberalise trade in services is a relatively new phenomenon. For the Southern African Customs Union (SACU) member states, the only experience acquired on this subject was during multilateral negotiations in the context of the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS).
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    Botswana’s export and competitiveness policy and non-traditional exporting firms

    Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies, South Africa, 2011
    The paper considers whether there is anyhing in the current competitiveness strategy that will assist firms in meeting the challenges of production in a small landlocked country like Botswana.
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    An investigation of the determinants of intra-industry trade between Zambia and its trading partners in the Southern African Development Community (SADC)

    Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies, South Africa, 2012
    Intra-Industry trade (IIT) has generally been perceived to be a feature of the industrialised countries. As the past few years have seen a rapid increase in Zambia’s trade with its trading partners in the SADC, trade statistics reveal that a substantial part of such intra-SADC trade is in fact of the IIT form.
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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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    Manufacturing employment and equality in South Africa

    Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies, South Africa, 2014
    In  2014, South Africa remained one of the most unequal countries in the world, an outlier by global standards in terms of both overall inequality as measured by the Gini coefficient and levels of joblessness. For proponents of industrialisation as central to long-term development, this situation raises two questions.
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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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