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Dancing with dragons: Chinese import penetration and the performances of manufacturing firms in South Africa

Torreggiani, Sofia; Andreoni, Antonio - 2019

Using firm-level tax administrative data from 2010 to 2017, we study the impact of Chinese import penetration on the performances of manufacturing firms in South Africa, and whether firms investing in capabilities development are more resilient to such competitive pressure. Specifically, by...

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Offshoring within South African manufacturing firms: An analysis of the labour market effects

Pretorius, Anmar; Bezuidenhout, Carli; Matthee, Marianne; … - 2019

In South Africa, the manufacturing sector - important for growth and employment creation - has shown declining growth, poor productivity performance, decreased labour demand, and increased imports of intermediate goods (offshoring activities). Offshoring influences jobs and wages differently...

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Globotics and development: When manufacturing is jobless and services are tradable

Baldwin, Richard E.; Forslid, Rikard - 2019

Globalization and robotics (globotics) are transforming the world economy at an explosive pace since they are driven by digital technology that is advancing in phenomenal increments. This paper - which should be considered a 'thought piece' - argues that the globotics transformation is likely to...

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Estimation of substitution and transformation elasticities for South African trade

Saikkonen, Liisa - 2015

trade. We use linear methods to estimate elasticities without growth factors. We then employ a non-linear system of …

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Threshold and interaction effects in the trade, growth, and inequality relationship

Leyaro, Vincent - 2015

This paper examines the relationship between trade (exports), growth, and inequality, using a panel of 100 countries … over 30 years (1980 to 2010). As there is no clear theoretical relationship between trade (exports) and inequality, and as … of trade (exports) on growth. The findings are that in general trade openness advances growth while inequality reduces …

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Trade, poverty, and social protection in developing countries

Desai, Raj M.; Rudra, Nita - 2016

How do shifts in trade affect social protections for the poor? Although the fraction of the world's population … protection to stabilize their incomes. Among the shocks to which the absolute poor have been exposed are those created by trade … stability from this type of trade require that the poor are provided with some forms of adjustment assistance. We examine the …

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Agro-processing and horticultural exports from Africa

Fukase, Emiko; Martin, Will - 2016

escalation facing Africa, improvements in the productivity of agricultural processing, and reductions in trade barriers within …

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New data, new approaches and new evidence: A policy synthesis

Arndt, Channing - 2017

The Republic of South Africa faces the imperative of escaping economic stagnation. This paper seeks to synthesize results from a series of research efforts, including but not limited to the work conducted under the UNU-WIDER project on 'Regional growth and development in Southern Africa', and...

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Diaspora externalities: A view from the South

Rapoport, Hillel - 2018

global South. It is split into two parts: a first section reviews the effect of diaspora networks on trade, foreign …

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Six development paths in Southeast Asia: Three plus three

Montes, Manuel F. - 2018

: agriculture, industry, foreign trade and investment, and social development. By using a more socially grounded analytical approach …

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