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THE NATURE OF SOUTH AFRICA'S TRADE PATTERNS BY ECONOMIC SECTOR, AND THE EXTENT OF TRADE LIBERALIZATION DURING THE COURSE OF THE 1990′s
Johannes Fedderke,P. Vaze +1 more
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In this paper, the authors explore changing trade protection of the South African economy by means of Eective Protection Rates (EPRs) and find that trade liberalization has been less dramatic than is popularly thought.Abstract:
We explore changing trade protection of the South African economy by means of E¤ective Protection Rates (EPR’s). Results on EPR’s for 28 manufacturing sectors over the 1988-98 period are presented. Findings suggest that trade liberalization of the South African economy has been less dramatic than is popularly thought. Analyzers proceed to suggest that trade liberalization is di¢cult to associate with increased import penetration of the SA economy, though liberalized sectors do appear to have demonstrated improved export performance.read more
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Growth Impact and Determinants of Foreign Direct Investment into South Africa, 1956-2003
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors study the impact of foreign direct investment in South Africa and find that foreign investment has tended to be capital intensive, suggesting that FDI has been horizontal rather than vertical, implying a positive technological spillover from foreign to domestic capital.
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Growth impact and determinants of foreign direct investment into South Africa, 1956–2003
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors study the impact of foreign direct investment in South Africa on the growth impact and the determinants of FDI in the long run, and find that the complementarity of foreign and domestic capital implies a positive technological spillover from foreign to domestic capital.
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Has South Africa liberalised its trade
TL;DR: This paper used new tariff data to re-evaluate the extent to which South Africa has liberalised its trade from the late 1980s and found that significant progress has been made in simplifying South Africa's tariff structure and reducing tariff protection, but further progress can be made in removing tariff peaks, reducing tariff dispersion and lowering the anti-export bias arising from protection.
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South Africa's export performance: determinants of export supply
Lawrence Edwards,Phil Alves +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluate the extent to which the composition and level of manufacturing exports have responded to these initiatives in the 1990s and investigate the determinants of South African manufacturing export performance using estimated export supply and demand functions.
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Skills Shortages in South Africa: A Literature Review
TL;DR: In this article, a review of the literature on skills shortages in South Africa is conducted, and a variety of policy recommendations are made with respect to both closed-and open-economy solutions to skills shortages.
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Openness, Trade Liberalization and Growth In Developing Countries
TL;DR: The Kiel Institute for the World Economy (Kiel) as mentioned in this paper provided a good deal of support during my stay at Kiel in 1992, and I am particularly grateful to the participants of a seminar at USAID for stimulating discussions.
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TL;DR: In this paper, a splendid and as yet unrivalled treatment of effective tariffs is presented, which will surely become mandatory reading for all those concerned with international trade theory, including economists.
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The Structure of a Tariff System and the Effective Protective Rate
TL;DR: The theory of tariff structure is concerned with the effects of tariffs and other trade taxes in a system with many traded goods as discussed by the authors, and it allows for the vertical relationships between tariff rates derived from the input-output relationships between products, an aspect until recently completely neglected in the literature of international trade theory.