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Barriers to entry and the role of African multinational corporations: Entrants in intermediate industrial products (inputs into construction)Effective competition in the Southern and East African regions requires independent rivals competing across borders and within domestic markets through innovation and effort, investment, product quality, and prices...
African multinational corporations Competition Regional integrationWorking Paper
COVID-19 and trade facilitation in Southern Africa: Implications for the AfCFTACOVID-19 has created a trade crisis in Southern Africa, with a dramatic slowdown in cross-border trade...
COVID-19 Trade facilitation Regional integrationResearch Brief
How can agro-processing value chains be developed to strengthen regional integration in Southern Africa?Regional integration in Africa has potential for increasing regional trade and contribute towards industrialization and economic development...
Regional integration Agriculture Agro-processingResearch Brief
Tackling poverty and inequality in Southern Africa: Transnational growth corridors as a solutionComprehensive harmonization is crucial to eliminate inefficiencies that hamper free movement of goods and services in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region...
Growth Growth corridors Intra-regional tradeWorking Paper
Fast tracking the SADC integration agenda to unlock regional collaboration gains along growth corridors in Southern AfricaDespite more than two decades of economic integration efforts, levels of spatial development inequality remain high within the Southern African Development Community (SADC)...
Growth Growth corridors Intra-regional tradeWorking Paper
Competition and inclusive regional economic growth in food production: Barriers to entry and the role of African multinational corporationsThe growth of African multinational companies in Southern and East Africa in recent decades brings with it a great opportunity for development of productive capacity in the region and greater regional integration...
African multinational corporations Multinational firms Barriers to entryWorking Paper
Agro-processing, value chains, and regional integration in Southern AfricaRegional integration in Africa is underway but ongoing progress requires that the gains are widely spread...
Regional integration Agriculture Agro-processingResearch Brief
Strengthening SADC trade in alternative fuels: Reducing the impact of global oil pricesAnalysis of World Bank data ranging from 1990–2017 indicates that increases in global oil prices would have negative effects on the economic growth of SADC, especially Mozambique, Tanzania, Zambia, and Mauritius...
Economic growth Oil prices Panel data analysisWorking Paper
Linking Southern Africa into South Africa’s global value chainsThis study explores the potential for South Africa to become an engine for intra- regional trade and industrial development by linking other Southern African countries to its global value chains and, in the process, improving its global trade competi...
Regional integration Regional value chains Global value chainsWorking Paper
Charity begins at home: The political economy of non-tariff barriers to trade in Southern AfricaIncreased intra-regional trade in southern Africa will have a positive impact on economic growth. However, this requires a shifting of loyalties from the national to the regional...
Local content Regional integration Southern African Development CommunityResearch Brief
Deepening regional integration in Southern AfricaRegional integration is making steady progress in Southern Africa, leading to the development of regional value chains (RVCs) that could strengthen the competitiveness of the region...
Apparel industry Automotive industry Food retailingWorking Paper
Spreading the gains?: Prospects and policies for the development of regional value chains in Southern AfricaRegional integration is making steady progress in Africa and a key objective is to improve the prospects for industrialization by expanding the regional market...
Apparel industry Automotive industry Food retailingJournal Special Issue
Bioenergy in Southern AfricaThis journal special issue revisits questions surrounding biofuel futures in Southern Africa and explores the case for the establishment of a regional market...
Biofuel Regional integrationWorking Paper
Motorcycle parts and aftermarket industry regional value chain in Southern AfricaThis paper provides an overview of the structure, key functions, and characteristics of the motorcycle parts and aftermarket industries in Southern Africa in order to identify challenges to and opportunities for growth in these industries...
Aftermarket Industrialization MotorcyclesWorking Paper
Evaluating the impact of global oil prices on the SADC and the potential for increased trade in biofuels and natural gas within the regionThis paper investigates whether Southern African Development Community countries that are vulnerable to changes in oil prices could instead substitute oil and petroleum products with biofuels and gas from within the region...
Economic growth Oil prices Panel data analysisWorking Paper
Black cat, white cat: Lessons to be learned from ASEANThere is general agreement at present that the Southern African Development Community needs to re-imagine itself and breathe new life into its somewhat moribund structure...
Regional integration Regional associations SADC