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TIPS: Trade & Industrial Policy Strategies · 9 April 2018

The basic chemicals and petroleum refineries industry comprises polymers, bulk petrochemicals and intermediates, other basic industrial and inorganic chemicals, and fertilisers. [...] Value added in basic chemicals and petroleum refineries, …


TIPS: Trade & Industrial Policy Strategies · 21 November 2017

As a lead sector, manufacturing contributes to job creation throughout the economy; and the efforts by the Manufacturing Circle and other industry groups to drive the creation of a million …


TIPS: Trade & Industrial Policy Strategies · 14 September 2017

Briefing Note: The exchange rate and the real economy The appreciation of the rand since early 2016 has mixed impacts on the real economy. [...] The main factor behind the …


TIPS: Trade & Industrial Policy Strategies · 11 June 2017

According to the agencies’ statements, the move was primarily driven by the political uncertainty following the Cabinet reshuffle and the perception that the fiscal consolidation stance (notably a rise in …


TIPS: Trade & Industrial Policy Strategies · 13 March 2017

Briefing note: Scenarios for US protectionism The election of the first explicitly protectionist American president in decades has injected a deep sense of uncertainty into a global trading system already …


TIPS: Trade & Industrial Policy Strategies · 13 June 2016

1 The extent of the crisis The crisis in the South African steel industry emerges in a number of ways. [...] Despite the fall in unit price, the value of …


TIPS: Trade & Industrial Policy Strategies · 4 December 2014

Second, the development of renewable energy, along with the introduction of IPPs, aims to reduce the cost of electricity in South Africa, in the short term, through generation capacity built …


TIPS: Trade & Industrial Policy Strategies · 16 May 2014

Other ongoing work includes The Implementation and Outcomes Evaluation of the National Advanced Manufacturing Technology Strategy, an evaluation undertaken jointly by the Department of Science and Technology and the Department …


TIPS: Trade & Industrial Policy Strategies · 25 April 2014

Ultimately, the success of the REIPP procurement programme has enable significant changes in the electricity supply industry by facilitating the entry of IPPs in the generation market and the development …


TIPS: Trade & Industrial Policy Strategies · 12 September 2013

Since its adoption in 2003 it has been further articulated manade more operational and today it constitutes the basic framework through which tLhOe Ipursues the objective of placing employment at …