Working Paper
‘Delangokubona’ and the distribution of rents and opportunity
Capital spending on infrastructure presents a significant counter-cyclical tool, however contested it might be in a society as unequal as South Africa. The history of racial capitalism, race-based exclusion from economic participation, and an...
Blog
Promoting industrialization in Africa: Global versus regional value chains
by
Julian Boys, Antonio Andreoni
November 2020
As COVID-19 ravages international trade and production, policy-makers are shifting their sights from global value chains (GVCs) to regional value...
Working Paper
Value chain directionality, upgrading, and industrial policy in the Tanzanian textile and apparel sectors
With recent changes in the global economy, policy makers are increasingly turning from global value chains to regional and national value chains as drivers of structural transformation in the global South. This paper examines economic and social...