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    Services trade liberalisation and the role of the services sector in South African development

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2011
    South Africa’s 2010 Trade Policy and Strategy Framework (TPSF) document envisages a ‘strategic tariff policy’ in line with government’s major development objectives, key among which are employment creation and industrial development and restructuring.
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    Trade zones: recommendations for South Africa

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2011
    South Africa introduced industrial development zones (IDZs) on 1 December 2000 through the Manufacturing Development Act. IDZs assist in the creation of industrial complexes that have strategic economic advantage. They allow for the exploitation of resource-intensive industries and existing industrial capacity, while also creating employment.
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    South Africa's current account deficit: are proposed cures worse than the disease?

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2008
    Each time the domestic trade balance shows a deficit, the policy discussion becomes very emotional. Normally discussions are driven by a strong mercantilist bias: trade surpluses are seen as a benefit to the country and they are claimed to be caused by own competitiveness.
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    Subsidies as an Instrument of industrial policy: are they WTO compliant?

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2011
    Global responses to economic recession revealed a trend towards trade protectionism, specifically through ‘bail-out’ measures in the form of large sums of government revenue handed out to specific industries. South Africa similarly responded to the economic crisis by offering rescue packages to affected industries.
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    Supporting South African exporters

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2011
    Aggregate exports are the result of the number of firms participating in the export market and the amount exported by each firm. Designing policies to increase total exports requires an understanding of the drivers of these two distinct processes. South African exporters are bigger, more capital-intensive and have higher levels of labour productivity than non-exporters.
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    The political economy of regional integration in Africa: the regional integration of public goods

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2013
    The trend in monitoring and evaluating progress in regional integration has been towards measuring success or failure on an exclusive trade integration framework.
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    South Africa as Africa’s gateway: a perspective from business

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2012
    Recently, investors from emerging markets have joined companies from developed countries in establishing offices in South Africa with a
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    The BRICS fallacy

    Center for Strategic and International Studies, 2013
    Focus on the BRICS began in 2001. Back then, the group only included Brazil, Russia, India, and China (South Africa was added in 2010). It all started with a November 2001 Goldman Sachs research paper titled ‘‘Building Better Global Economic BRICs,’’ written by Jim O’Neill.
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    The India-Brazil-South Africa Forum a decade on: mismatched partners or the rise of the South?

    Global Economic Governance Programme, University College Oxford, 2013
    Gridlock in the Doha round of international trade negotiations in the WTO since 2001 has led developing countries to pursue different strategies to boost trade and investment among various partners.
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    The economic engagement footprint of rising powers in sub-Saharan Africa: an analysis of trade, foreign direct investment and aid flows

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2013
    Rising powers such as Brazil, China, India, South Africa, the Gulf states or Turkey have entered the development arena through their expanding relationships with low-income countries (LICs) . A widespread perception is that these countries are establishing new forms of engagement, mainly under a South–South cooperation framework.

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