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‘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...
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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...