Tag: Industrial policy
UCT Industrial Policy roundtable with Ricardo Hausmann, 11 March 2010
24 Mar 10 EventOn Thursday 11 March, tralac attended a discussion on South African industrial policy hosted by the School of Economics at the University of Cape Town. This is a particul...
tralac Annual Conference 2009
23 Oct 09 Eventtralac held its 2009 Annual Conference on the 3rd and 4th of September in Cape Town, South Africa. The aim of the Conference was to critically review the past year’s key tra...
An assessment of the trade measures proposed as part of the Department of Trade and Industry’s Draft Rescue Package for the clothing and textile industry
17 Jun 09 PublicationsOne of the South African government’s latest responses in its ongoing and thus far unsuccessful effort to assist the country’s ailing clothing and textile manufacturing industr...
South African Wine – An Industry in Ferment
16 Oct 07 PublicationsSouth Africa has gone through a true ‘revolution’ in wine quality in the last 10-15 years. In the 1980s, over 60 cooperative wineries supplied a large majority of wine to a sma...
Developmental integration and the harmonisation of industrial policies in SACU, 25 October 2006
01 Nov 06 EventOn 25 October 2006, tralac Associate and Professor Emeritus of Economics, University of Stellenbosch, Colin McCarthy, presented a paper at a workshop convened by the Inst...
Ecolabels and fish trade: Marine Stewardship Council certification and the South African hake industry
29 Aug 06 PublicationsProtecting consumers from unsafe food, the environment from overexploitation of resources and pollution, and workers and producers from unjust labour and trade relations are genera...
Monitoring Regional Integration in Southern Africa Yearbook 2005
01 Mar 06 PublicationsRegional integration is generally accepted as an important step towards a wider global involvement. This is particularly true in Southern Africa, where we can find many countries w...