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Transport Services in SACU: Accelerating Harmonisation and Liberalisation

Services are without doubt a key driver of economic growth and fundamentally influence (or determine) the trade capacity of countries. Like many other World Trade Organisation (WTO) member states, Southern African Customs Union (SACU) countries recognise the importance of a more liberal services trade regime in enhancing the availability and quality of key services like communications, transport, energy, construction and financial services that are vital to economic growth and trade competitiveness.

South Africa’s Stimulus Package Rings Alarm Bells about Trade Policy

As the economic contraction induced by the global financial crisis deepens, multilateral finance institutions, central banks and governments are intervening by injecting liquidity, recapitalising and restructuring financial institutions to halt the world economy from plunging into depression.

Trade Finance Squeeze

Trade finance (sometimes called short-term credit) is considered as the true lifeline on which the majority of world trade operates today as it can provide fluidity and security to the movement of goods and services.

Le Mécanisme Africain d’Evaluation par les Pairs : Evaluer les origines, les relations institutionnelles et les réalisations

Cette étude évalue les origines du MAEP, les avantages qu’il a sur le continent, et les obstacles qui militent contre le succès.

The African Peer Review Mechanism: Assessing Origins, Institutional Relations and Achievements

This paper assesses the origins of the APRM, the benefits that it has brought to the continent, and the obstacles that militate against success.

Trade Reform in Southern Africa: Vision 2014?

This book comes at an important time in the development of Southern Africa’s trade policy.

Gathering Crumbs from the G20’s Table?

As leaders of the world’s most productive economies meet in London on Thursday, street activism around the need for poverty alleviation and action on climate change is expected to divert the world’s gaze from official proceedings.

South African elections: A good example for the rest of Africa?

In less than one month, South Africans go to the polls to elect a government for the next five years.

Human Rights and Wrongs

Why, many are asking, has South Africa squandered its enormous moral capital and its commitment to human rights to side with some very questionable regimes?

Election Manifestos: Time for a Different Approach

With the tempo of electioneering gathering pace in South Africa in preparation for the April 22 poll, one cannot but wonder what difference the frenetic efforts of politicians and their spin-doctors actually make to the voter.