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21 July 2011

TIPS TRALAC Policy Brief SACU service negotiations

  • Project TRALAC
  • Year 2011
For many African states, negotiations to liberalise trade in services is a relatively new experience. Southern African Development Community (SADC), Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) and East African Community (EAC) member states are set to negotiate services at several levels – regional, bilateral, multilateral and even at…
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17 January 2011

TIPS Policy Brief - Towards a right to work: The rationale for an employment guarantee in South Africa

  • Year 2012
What if unemployed people in South Africa had a right – a real right – to a minimum level of regular work on decent terms? In 2005, India passed a law guaranteeing rural households up to 100 days of work a year, at minimum wage rates. Over 55 million households…
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01 January 2011

SADRN Policy Brief 4: The effects of the European Union-imposed livestock identification and traceback system on Botswana's beef exports and rural poverty

  • Project SADRN
  • Year 2011
In 1997 the EU introduced a requirement that beef imports be traceable through a computerised system. To ensure continued access to the EU market, Botswana introduced the livestock identification and traceback system (LITS). The objectives  of this study are to estimate the costs associated with implementing the system and determine…
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01 January 2011

SADRN Policy Brief 9: Prospects for establishing an education hub: The case of Botswana

  • Project SADRN
  • Year 2011
Globally, a rapid increase of mobile tertiary education seekers has been observed. In 2005, more than 2.7 million tertiary education students were studying in a country other than their own, representing an increase of about 61% since 1999.  Trade in education services is increasingly becoming important worldwide. Saner and  Fasel…
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01 January 2011

SADRN Policy Brief 2: The impact of biofuels on food prices in the Southern African Customs Union

  • Project SADRN
  • Year 2011
The quest for new sources of energy away from traditional petroleum products has in recent times led to the development and use of biological material (biomass). As the name suggests, biofuels are developed from organic materials. Thus an increase in the price of oil has also increased demand for biofuels,…
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01 January 2011

SADRN Policy Brief 3: Services sector development in Uganda: The role of financial services

  • Project SADRN
  • Year 2011
The objectives of financial sector reform in Uganda were interest liberalisation, reducing directed credit, improving prudential regulation, privatisating financial intermediaries, reducing reserve requirements, liberalisation of securities markets and pro-competition measures. Interest rate liberalisation focused on positive interest rates, with rates linked to the weighted average of an auction-based treasury bill,…
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01 January 2011

SADRN Policy Brief 5: Export diversification in Zambia and Botswana: Little progress so far

  • Project SADRN
  • Year 2011
There is increasing evidence that export diversification is linked to growth. However, possibly less than 10 African countries show signs of export diversification, with manufacturing making up at least 25% of total exports. Botswana and Zambia are both heavily reliant on primary commodity exports. In Zambia, the dominance of copper…
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01 January 2011

SADRN Policy Brief 6: The trade effects of regional economic integration in the Southern African Development Community

  • Project SADRN
  • Year 2011
In their quest to achieve higher economic growth and development African governments have experimented with different growth and industrialisation models. Prominent among these is the import substitution industrialisation (ISI) model adopted after gaining independence in the 1960s and 1770s. It is widely believed that the ISI model failed, and after…
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01 January 2011

SADRN Policy Brief 7: The 2007/2008 food crisis: The case of maize and maize taxation in Southern Africa

  • Project SADRN
  • Year 2011
Maize is the most important staple cereal consumed in the Southern African region. Global warming and accompanying increased volatility in rainfall, rising populations and the shift to maize-fed biofuels pose risks of substantial price increases in the future that may affect food security. The general view is that a combination…
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01 January 2011

SADRN Policy Brief 8: Internationalising higher education in Southern Africa with South Africa as the major exporter

  • Project SADRN
  • Year 2011
A number of factors have propelled the rapid demand for foreign higher education services. These include the need for internationally recognised qualifications, the demand for highly skilled labour in both developed and developing countries, and the inclination by several countries towards promoting foreign collaborations to improve the quality of domestic…
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