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COVID-19 Impacts Cross Border Traders in East Africa
Global Integrity Anti-Corruption Evidence (GI-ACE), 2020Highlights the implications of COVID-19 on small scale cross-border trading in Kenya and Uganda. They find that Kenya-Uganda border restrictions are also reducing the work of informal border traders. This will have a knock on effect on the Ugandan economy, where informal trade accounts for 25-40% of intra-regional trade.DocumentAfrica trade and Covid‑19: The supply chain dimension
Overseas Development Institute, 2020The global Covid-19 pandemic has had an enormous impact on trade across the world. Value chains and trade have slowed down, or even been brought to a halt, via several channels:DocumentPromoting intra-regional trade in North Africa
Institute of Development Studies UK, 2017Following the launch of the Aid for Trade (AfT) initiative in 2005, donor spending on interventions to promote developing country trade has grown rapidly (UNECA & WTO, 2017: p.3).DocumentIBCIM economic corridor: facilitating sub-regional development
Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies, India, 2017The Bangladesh-China-India-Myanmar Forum for Regional Cooperation’s (BCIM) Economic Corridor (EC) initiative, a complex entanglement between security, economic and national interest, exemplifies Foreign Secretary Jaishankar's statement.DocumentTrade in high technology products trends and policy imperatives for BRICS
Research and Information System for Developing Countries, 2017The rise and relevance of BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) cannot be overstated. BRICS constitutes the most prominent emerging economies with substantial influence on world affairs – both political and economic.DocumentAfghanistan’s cross-border trade with Pakistan and Iran and the responsibility for conflict-sensitive employment
Bonn International Center for Conversion, 2017Border areas are sites of intensive interaction between states and inter-regional business. Political tensions and armed conflicts have a particularlystrong impact on trade flows.DocumentThe impact of a global value chain in South India on the rural areas in its vicinity
University of Sussex, UK, 2010The expansion of garment manufacturing in Tiruppur has transformed the surrounding countryside as well as the town, both as garment manufacturing has spread into the countryside and through the knock-on effects of having a dynamic and relatively labour intensive industrial sector nearby. It has provided a valuable alternative to agriculture as agriculture has been running into problems.DocumentLabouring for global markets: CSR lessons from a South Indian textile export cluster, Global Insights Briefing, School of Global Studies, University of Sussex.
University of Sussex, UK, 2010This briefing explores the ways in which Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) policies affect labour regimes and the lives of workers at manufacturing sites in the Global South. It describes workers’ reactions to these policies, and the choices they make when faced with different regimes of work.DocumentA practical agenda to reducing technical barriers to trade in SADC
Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies, South Africa, 2017Technical regulations refer to product and process specifications, whether voluntary (standards) or legally required (compulsory specifications).DocumentSouth Africa's trade and investment relationship with the United States post-AGOA
Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies, South Africa, 2016The African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) has been recognised as the cornerstone of America’s engagement with Sub-Saharan Africa for the past 14 years. It is therefore central to an understanding of the South Africa-US trade relationship.Pages