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TIPS: Trade & Industrial Policy Strategies · 24 June 2020

Establishing a structure to drive the SJRP for the metals value chain, based in a revision of the requirements for Social and Labour Plans (SLPs) to extend them to smelters …


TIPS: Trade & Industrial Policy Strategies · 9 June 2020

banks are a key tool used to boost the competitiveness of exports through provision of various forms of direct financing to foreign buyers when commercial loans are While South Africa …


TIPS: Trade & Industrial Policy Strategies · 17 April 2020

The decision to lock down the country as part of the COVID-19 response to protect the health of the South African population has put further pressure on the steel industry. …


TIPS: Trade & Industrial Policy Strategies · 8 March 2020

In these circumstances, the 0.1% downturn in services and retail in the second half of 2019 meant the economy as a whole contracted. [...] As a result of the relatively …


TIPS: Trade & Industrial Policy Strategies · 20 February 2020

AND: Credit contraction in adverse Access to finance economic conditions a major obstacles to for SMEs SME survival & growth 3 Banks generally accept SMEs as SMEs finance: Challenges important …


TIPS: Trade & Industrial Policy Strategies · 12 January 2020

The energy sector is also a cornerstone of the transition due to its primary role in the existing sustainability issues in many countries, from the reliance on fossil fuels and …


TIPS: Trade & Industrial Policy Strategies · 20 December 2019

Very small compared to comparative levels in OECD as well as most other credit segments middle income countries SME sector and SME labour absorbtion declined over the same period (from …


TIPS: Trade & Industrial Policy Strategies · 21 October 2019

Especially in Mpumalanga, there is some rejection of the central change implied in the notion of a just transition – namely, the closure of the coal mines and coal powered …


TIPS: Trade & Industrial Policy Strategies · 11 September 2019

Briefing Note: Seasonality in the GDP Data According to official Statistics South Africa GDP data, even after adjusting the data to remove seasonal variations, the economy contracted in the first …


TIPS: Trade & Industrial Policy Strategies · 12 June 2019

Sources of the downturn in the first quarter of 2019 International economic International policy: trends: • Unpredictability of the Trump Administration affecting • Slowdown in all of South international investment …