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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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    Technology intensive manufacturing and innovation in South Africa: a comparison with the BRIC countries and an emprical examination of technology based firms

    Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies, South Africa, 2014
    There is considerable interest in the economic progress of the BRICS and in their capacity to enter into more technologically demanding activities. But, there is considerable variation in the rate of innovation as between the BRICS.
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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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    Brazilian economy: recent evolution and new perspectives for South-South cooperation

    Research and Information System for Developing Countries, 2007
    Brazilian economic stagnation of the early 1980s mirrors that of the other Latin American countries. Thus, comparison on the economic data for the whole of Latin America from 1980 up to today and those of the 1950-1980 period, reveals that investment rates are substantially lower; unemployment is higher; and the average income of salaried workers is lower.
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    Deepening India–Bangladesh economic cooperation: challenges and opportunities

    Research and Information System for Developing Countries, 2007
    In recent years, South Asia has received growing attention as a region that is integrating successfully into the global economy. To maximise the benefits in terms of faster growth and poverty reduction, the region will need to strengthen regional and bilateral cooperation in several areas.
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    Regional cooperation and integration prospects in Asia

    Research and Information System for Developing Countries, 2007
    There is indeed a strong opportunity for South Asian countries to benefit from intensifying regional ties. As a regional policy dialogue becomes stronger and barriers are gradually eliminated, or at least substantially reduced, economic integration will intensify in the next decade or two. This is partly due to the very low level of integration it starts from.
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    The WTO’s Doha negotiations: an assessment

    Research and Information System for Developing Countries, 2008
    The lure of big benefits from successful conclusion of the multilateral negotiations and the risks of bilateral and regional routes if these negotiations fail should not be taken by the developing countries as determining factors in their moves in the current World Trade Organisation (WTO) Doha negotiations.
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    Towards an Asian “Bretton Woods” for restructuring of the regional financial architecture

    Research and Information System for Developing Countries, 2008
    Despite a plethora of programs for increased financial co-operation in Asia, there has been very little real progress in developing a regional architecture for financial co-operation in Asia.
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    East Asian infrastructure development in a comparative global perspective: an analysis of RIS infrastructure index

    Research and Information System for Developing Countries, 2008
    Development of infrastructure is one of the key priorities of East Asia Summit (EAS) countries. By constructing an Infrastructure Index for 104 countries comprising all the EAS members, this paper examines the levels of infrastructure attainment of EAS countries in a comparative global perspective over time and space.

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