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A strategic view of South African trade in policy in relation to the future global trading environment

Author: Edwards, Lawrence; Robert, Lawrence Date: 28 May 2015 This paper puts forward a strategic view of what South African trade policy should be doing in relation to the future global trading environment. The future is uncertain, but if the past is prologue, South African trade policy needs to be ... Read more
Assessing the price impacts on South African industry and households from a 10% increase in fuel taxes

Author: Loonat, Mohamed Date: 2003 Bibliography: leaves 152-157. Read more
Challenging Patronage Networks and Corruption in Iraq: A social accounting matrix analysis of citizen-based oil revenue distribution

Author: Moosajee, Muhammad Ali Date: 2018 Iraq is a country with exceptional natural resource wealth, but also consistent political turbulence manifested by high levels of state corruption, patronage networks, weak governance, poor institutional quality, civil unrest and sectarian ... Read more
Complementary and competitive: the impact of Chinese trade on South African manufacturing exports

Author: Chien, Jing-Woei Date: 2016 This paper makes use of South African industry level data to identify the effects of Chinese trade on South African manufacturing exports. It contributes to the existing literature by considering the implications of the different channels of ... Read more
Dynamics of firm-level export diversification in Botswana

Author: Kebakile, Pinkie Gertrude Date: 2018 This thesis investigates the firm-level dynamics of export diversification in Botswana. Botswana is a country characterised by a high level of export concentration, with diamonds dominating its export bundle. With the stock of diamonds expected ... Read more
Economic reforms and product market integration in developing countries : an empirical investigation using retail prices in Zambia

Author: Mudenda, Dale Siamulandabala Date: 2016 In spite of extensive trade reforms, markets for goods and services are not fully integrated across countries. Less appreciated also is that product markets within countries are frequently not integrated. Barriers to trade within countries ... Read more
The effect of exchange rate volatility on the volume of South African exports

Author: Redford, Siobhan Date: 2008 The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether a relationship between export volumes and exchange rate volatility exists as suggested in the ASGISA document. It goes about this by first investigating the theoretical channels that predict ... Read more
The effect of the exchange rate on the trade balance : the case of the South African mining sector

Author: Willcox, Owen Date: 2003 The rationale for the study is based on the significance of the mining sector and the recent history of the Rand. During the 1990s and the early part of this century, the Rand has often been the subject of speculative attacks. Added to this ... Read more
The effects of subsidized housing on the property values of neighbourhoods within its vicinity

Author: Malgas, Shannon M Date: 2018 Over time neighbourhoods have shown opposition to Government subsidized housing programmes being developed within their neighbourhoods. This is due to the perceived negative impacts that these housing developments have on the neighbourhood. ... Read more
Environmental regulation as a determinant of trade: an empirical investigation of the "Pollution Haven Hypothesis" in the context of international trade

Author: Ellis Brown, Rupert Date: 2016 This paper applies an augmented version of the Heckscher-Ohlin-Vanek model to a broad cross section of countries for the period 2001 to 2011, providing evidence that a country's environmental regulatory regime has an influence on the energy ... Read more
Estimating elasticities of demand and supply for South African manufactured exports using a vector error correction model

Author: Behar, Alberto Date: 2002 Elasticities of demand and supply for South African manufactured exports are estimated using the co-integrating vector autoregression / vector error correction model approach in order toaddress simultaneity and non-stationarity issues. Demand ... Read more
An evaluation of the employment trends in the clothing & textile industry

Author: Edwards, Lawrence ; Morris, Mike Date: 2006 A primary justification for the proposed quotas is the claim that 63 000 to 67 000 jobs have been lost over the past three and a half years (and that 1000 jobs are being lost per month)1 and that these losses are directly related to the ... Read more c b n d
An evaluation of the employment trends in the clothing & textile industry

Author: Edwards, Lawrence ; Morris, Mike Date: 2006 A primary justification for the proposed quotas is the claim that 63 000 to 67 000 jobs have been lost over the past three and a half years (and that 1000 jobs are being lost per month)1 and that these losses are directly related to the ... Read more c b n d
Firm level export dynamics and market access costs: evidence from Kenya

Author: Chacha, Peter Wankuru Date: 2018 This thesis examines the process through which firms contribute to variation in Kenya's exports and how a shock to market access costs influences firm dynamics of entry, exit and survival in export markets. The analysis draws on several firm ... Read more
Has South Africa liberalised its trade?

Author: Edwards, Lawrence Date: 2005 This paper uses new tariff data to re-evaluate the extent to which South Africa has liberalised its trade from the late 1980s. The paper finds that significant progress has been made in simplifying South Africa's tariff structure and reducing ... Read more
Has South Africa liberalised its trade?

Author: Edwards, Lawrence Date: 2005 This paper uses new tariff data to re-evaluate the extent to which South Africa has liberalised its trade from the late 1980s. The paper finds that significant progress has been made in simplifying South Africa's tariff structure and reducing ... Read more
Have falling tariffs raised wage inequality in South Africa?

Author: Pieterse, Duncan E Date: 2004 This paper comments on a possible relationship between wage inequality and trade liberalisation in South Africa. Several unique contributions are made here: first, the above-mentioned relationship is tested using mandated-wage regressions ... Read more
Hetrogenous impact of interest rates on retail firm prices : a product-level analysis using micro-data from Lesotho

Author: Mzezewa, Lerato Date: 2016 Price-setting behaviour plays an important role in the transmission mechanism of monetary policy as pricing decisions of firms in the private sector determine how changes in the official rate affect prices. Several recent studies using micro ... Read more
The impact of the European Union-South Africa free trade area agreement on factor returns in South Africa : much ado about nothing?

Author: Chauke, J Thabo Date: 2007 Includes bibliographical references (leaves 35-38). Read more
The impact of trade liberalisation on wages in the South African manufacturing sector between 2000 and 2007

Author: Jhaveri, Yaseen N Date: 2009 This study investigates the impact of trade liberalization on wages in the manufacturing sector in South Africa between 2000 and 2007. The Stolper - Samuelson theorem predicts that trade liberalisation decreases the relative return of workers ... Read more

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