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    Angola, the reluctant SADC trader

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2013
    The Southern African Development Community (SADC) Protocol on Trade (PoT) was signed in 1996 with the aim of increasing trade between member states through the elimination of tariffs and harmonisation of customs procedures.
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    Exporting and export dynamics among South African firms

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2013
    According to the National Development Plan increased exports, particularly among small and medium firms, are an important job-creation strategy. Yet much of the South African debate on exporting occurs in an environment based on anecdote and prejudice rather than fact.
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    What Shoprite and Woolworths can tell us about non-tariff barriers

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2013
    This paper discusses the impact of non-tariff barriers (NTBs) in the Southern African Development Community region. It draws on the growing body of literature on NTBs pertaining to regional trade in Southern and Eastern Africa, but importantly it supplements this with the experience of the private sector in the region.
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    Applying the strategic relational approach to African states: a case of Mauritius and trade policymaking

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2013
    The perspective of African states in crisis, together with the examination of African states as neopatrimonial, has been inadequate in providing a useful lens for examining trade policymaking in Africa.
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    Is SACU ready for a monetary union?

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2013
    Attaining a monetary union is an ambition for most African regional economic communities. Although studies have been undertaken on the costs and benefits of monetary unions, there has been little focus on the viability of a Common Monetary Area for member states of the South African Customs Union (SACU).
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    The political economy of trade liberalisation: what lessons for reforms today?

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2008
    This paper provides an overview of trade policy reforms in developing countries, especially the acceleration of trade and foreign investment liberalisation since the early 1980s. Its accent is on political economy, drawing on country examples and comparisons to show how politics interacted with economic conditions and shaped the relative success or otherwise of reforms. This exercise
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    The cost of non-tariff barriers to business along the North–South corridor (South Africa–Zimbabwe) via Beit Bridge a preliminary study

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2008
    The Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) Protocol on Trade committed member states to creating a free trade area (FTA) within their collective borders by 2008.
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    Non-tariff barriers to trade in Southern Africa: towards a measurement approach

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2008
    Liberalisation of goods trade has enjoyed substantial advances in South and Southern Africa in recent years, notably through the Uruguay Round agreements, unilateral liberalisation under structural adjustment programmes, and Southern African Development Community (SADC) and Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) free trade agreements (FTAs). Notwithstanding
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    South African trade policy and the future global trading environment

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2012
    Trade policy has a key role to play in South Africa’s growth strategy. If it is to meet the aspirations of its people for higher incomes and increased employment opportunities, the South African economy needs to expand at an average rate of at least 6% a year.
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    The BRICS in the emerging global economic architecture

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2012
    For more than 10 years South Africa has been part of a group of countries, invariably including China, India and Brazil, responsible for forming the elements that have the potential of altering the dynamics of several multilateral processes. But South Africa’s inclusion in the BRICS has not been without its controversies.

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