Tag: Industrial policy
South Africa’s need to revive mining exploration
14 Dec 23 BlogAccording to Minerals Council South Africa CEO, Mzila Mthenjane, in an op-ed published in October, the country’s mining exploration spend in 2023 was 0.8 percent of global spend,...
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22 Nov 23 NewsRaising South Africa’s Economic Prospects by Curbing Crime (World Bank)
The impact of crime on South Africa’s economic prospects is high and broad-based, according to a World ...
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20 Nov 23 NewsClimate Action Key to Kenya’s Upper-Middle-Income Country Aspirations (World Bank)
Kenya remains vulnerable to frequent climatic shocks that pose significant economic risk. With...
How is the AfCFTA’s industrial development agenda shaping up?
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Industrialisation is vital for Africa’s long-term development. To achieve its objectives and boost intra-African trade (which stands at very low levels and in...
Some Applications of tralac’s Value Chain Database
28 Sep 23 PublicationsCross-border value chains are a form of trade in which intermediate value (whether product or service) passes from one country to another, to be beneficiated by the recipient count...
Trade facilitation and industrialisation: Cross-border value chain development – Progress to date and way forward
26 Sep 23 PublicationsObjectives of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), such as industrial development through diversification and regional value chain development, increased intra-regiona...
tralac Workshop: Africa’s Industrialisation and the AfCFTA
07 Sep 23 EventAfrica’s Industrialisation and the AfCFTA: What can we learn from trade-investment-industrial policy linkages and experiences in Southern Africa?
Trade law and policy experts ca...
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31 Aug 23 NewsSARS records R16 billion trade boost for South Africa (BusinessTech)
South Africa saw a preliminary trade balance surplus of R16.0 billion in July 2023, data from the South Africa...
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29 Aug 23 NewsSouth Africa missed the boat on some localisation opportunities, but higher value industries can be pursued (Engineering News)
The latest research from policy research entity Trad...
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03 Aug 23 NewsIndustrial policy changes needed, TIPS forum hears (Engineering News)
Academics and researchers have highlighted some of the policy changes needed within a changing global economy...
Why We Need to Promote African Value Chain Industrialisation Now That the AfCFTA Is Here
23 Dec 22 BlogThe ways in which developing countries industrialised post the industrial revolution have drawn attention from scholars for decades. The ‘Asian tigers’ are a group of South-Eas...
Africa’s textile and apparel value chain – Its impact on special economic zones
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The textile, apparel and accessories (TA&A) industry, as well as the footwear industry, hold considerable potential for Africa in terms of economic advanc...
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02 Dec 22 NewsLocal news
After challenging season, citrus industry moves to mitigate new and old risks (Engineering News)
South Africa’s citrus growers industry has, despite achieving a marg...
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27 Nov 22 NewsLocal news
R4-trillion needed for South Africa’s hydrogen economy, PIC declares (Engineering News)
South Africa’s State-owned Public Investment Corporation (PIC) stated on Mo...
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22 Nov 22 NewsLocal news
Poultry industry jitters over extension to US anti-dumping tariffs (IOL)
The South African Poultry Association (Sapa) will have to continue to “take one for the team...
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21 Nov 22 NewsCOP27 outcomes and reactions
Call for collaboration to achieve COP27 outcomes (SAnews)
South Africa has called on all Parties to work constructively and in a spirit of compromise...
Could Safeguards be used to promote Industrialisation?
14 Nov 22 BlogIndustrialisation depends on many policy inputs. African countries face unique challenges and must develop industrialisation policies suitable for their conditions. Such polices mu...
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24 Jun 22 NewsLocal news
South Africa is making a big localisation push – and has stopped using some international products: Ramaphosa (BusinessTech)
Answering a recent parliamentary Q&A...
Special Economic Zones: Ethiopian Case Study
31 May 22 PublicationsDOWNLOAD PUBLICATION
Special Economic Zones (SEZs) represent delimited zones in which industrial development is promoted by establishing export strategies and by attracting foreig...
Global Launch Event: Global Alliance of Special Economic Zones (GASEZ), 17 May 2022
24 May 22 BlogNew global alliance of special economic zones to boost development
The Global Alliance of Special Economic Zones (GASEZ) was launched on May 17, 2022, with eight founding members:...