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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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    Inertia, equity and ingenuity: mapping opportunities in South Africa's green economy

    Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies, South Africa, 2010
    As with preceding notions of economic opportunity such as “industrial conglomeration”, “local economic development” and the “digital economy”, the “green economy” runs the risk of becoming a fad, especially if viewed as something distinct from conventional economic theory.
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    Inequality and economic marginalisation: How the structure of the economy impacts on opportunities on the margins

    Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies, South Africa, 2011
    In the face of a long-standing unemployment crisis that increasingly threatens social and economic stability, employment has at last taken centre stage in South African policy, and with this, focus is shifting to the structural constraints on employment creation within the economy. The New Growth Path, approved by Cabinet in November 2010, starts to tackle these issues.
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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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    An appraisal of local economic development impact assessment methodologies in the Context of the Community Work Programme (CWP)

    Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies, South Africa, 2013
    The Community Work Programme (CWP) aims to provide an employment ‘safety net’ that provides access to a minimum level of regular work on an on-going and predictable basis for those who require it the most unemployed and underemployed people at the local community level.
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    Predicted poverty impacts of expanding the Community Work Program me in South Africa: an analysis of income poverty and inequality

    Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies, South Africa, 2012
    The Employment Guarantee Scheme (EGS), which guarantees low-skilled work to poor, unemployed individuals and in the process contributes to the creation of productive community assets and services.
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    Tracking climate finance inflows to South Africa

    2013
    As most part of the continent, South Africa is particularly vulnerable to global warming owing to the low resilience to extreme climate events of a significant part of the population, already low and variable rainfall in large parts of the country, a substantial share of surface water resources being already fully allocated, and the centrality of agriculture and fisheries for food security and
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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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    Strengthening the impacts of economic development strategies on urban poverty

    Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies, South Africa, 2008
    South Africa is continuing to urbanise, perhaps not as rapidly as some developing countries but certainly at a rate which has generated a considerable degree of policy anguish over its accompanying rising levels of urban poverty.

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