Tag: Industrial policy
SADC in 2018 – Consolidating stability and sustainable development
25 Jan 18 NewsAn eventful year awaits southern Africa in 2018 as the region intensifies efforts to deepen economic integration and achieve sustainable development and stability.
The region is s...
Eco-industrial parks emerge as an effective approach to sustainable growth
25 Jan 18 NewsThree development organizations have joined forces to create a new framework defining the key elements of eco-industrial parks, setting up a common understanding of how to promote ...
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24 Jan 18 NewsUnderway in Nairobi: Review and Validation Meeting for the EAC Draft Regional Framework
US Trade and Investment with Sub-Saharan Africa: download evidence at yesterday’s hearing...
WEF: Tech revolution will see ‘serious winners and losers’ – Davies
24 Jan 18 NewsThere will be “serious winners and losers” as a result of the Fourth Industrial Revolution and South Africa needs to be properly prepared and positioned to reap the benefits, o...
EAC Secretary General calls for implementation of critical activities in 2018
23 Jan 18 NewsEast African Community Secretary General, Amb. Liberat Mfumukeko, has called for serious prioritizing of the available resources to ensure critical activities in the integration pr...
Structural shifts in the post-Apartheid SA economy
22 Jan 18 InfographicsIn a recent tralac Working Paper, John Stuart examines structural shifts in the real economy of South Africa spanning the period from the mid 1990s to the end of the 2000s. The cha...
Structural Shifts in the Post-Apartheid SA Economy: A Comparative SAM Analysis
19 Jan 18 PublicationsThis paper makes use of a comparative SAM analysis to examine structural shifts in the real economy of South Africa spanning the period from the mid ’90s to the end of the 2000s....
An Opportunity for South Africa to pursue new regional Policies?
19 Jan 18 BlogSouth Africa is in the midst of a political battle. At the end of 2017 the ruling party, the African National Congress (ANC), elected Cyril Ramaphosa as its new leader, after a hot...
African Development Bank launches the 2018 edition of the African Economic Outlook
17 Jan 18 NewsAfDB makes a compelling case for Africa’s industrialization
The President of the African Development Bank, Akinwumi Adesina, has made a compelling case for accelerating Africa...
The role of trade policies in building regional value chains – some preliminary evidence from Africa
09 Jan 18 NewsRegional value chains (RVCs) are considered as an important step towards greater integration into global value chains (GVCs), but African countries trade very little value added wi...
Zimbabwe: National Budget Statement for 2018
07 Dec 17 NewsPresented to the Parliament of Zimbabwe on Thursday, December 7, 2017 by Hon. Patrick A. Chinamasa, Minister of Finance and Economic Development
Foreword
The 2018 National Budget...
Africa must industrialise
06 Dec 17 BlogIndustrialisation is part of the process of economic transformation – expanding and diversifying the productive base of the economy (creating more and different kinds of value ad...
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06 Dec 17 NewsAnthony Carroll: Forging a new era in US-South African relations (Africa Center, Atlantic Council)
This report assesses the potential role of the US in assuring South Africa’s p...
Manufacturing the future of Kenya – Africa’s industrial hub
06 Dec 17 NewsThis story line never gets old, around 1960; South Korea was on average poorer than Kenya. Fast forward to the 21st century and the divergent fortunes are equally awe-ins...
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04 Dec 17 NewsThe African Ministers of Trade ministerial concluded over the weekend in Niamey. The UNECA has released this summary of progress towards the CFTA: “Substantial progress was made,...
Experts, policymakers converge on Addis Ababa to scale up governance for Africa’s transformation
04 Dec 17 NewsAlthough Africa has registered strong economic growth in recent years, this growth is not inclusive. Poverty and inequality prevail.
What is the role of African governments to dri...
Manufacturing is a critical component for job creation
30 Nov 17 NewsManufacturing is a critical component of the South African economic policy and also important in creating and ensuring that there are jobs in the economy.
This was said by the Min...
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28 Nov 17 NewsFeatured infographics: @TheEIU_Africa team forecasts Ethiopia as sub-Saharan Africa’s fastest growing economy in 2018. East African/Franc Zone economies feature in region’...
Map to a Million: Creating a million new jobs in manufacturing in the next decade
28 Nov 17 NewsThe Manufacturing Circle launched its ‘Map to a Million New Jobs in a Decade’ on 24 November 2017, a plan containing realistic, constructive, and actionable steps to create an ...
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27 Nov 17 NewsFeatured tweet, Kenya School Of Revenue: Africa is far from integration when Kenya imports Zambian copper from China and Nigeria imports Kenyan coffee from London. We need to build...