Fossiled Priorities In IPP Regulations?
The Department of Minerals and Energy (DME) released its draft independent power producer (IPP) regulations on January 30 with a harsh deadline of March 2, for public comment.
Kenneth Good, ‘Diamonds, Dispossession and Democracy in Botswana’. Jacana Media, Johannesburg, 2009.
This book wipes the lustre off Africa’s sparkling success story, Botswana. Through the pages of a relatively slim volume, Australian Professor Kenneth Good, who was declared an ‘Undesirable Immigrant’ and deported from Botswana in June 2005, painstakingly unearths a different reality to this much-vaunted case of African exceptionalism.
What’s Urdu for Biltong? Can South Africa Help Pakistan?
Following its democratic turn in 1994, Nelson Mandela wrote the year previously, the second pillar of South African foreign policy would be the principle ‘that just and lasting solutions to the problems of humankind can only come through the promotion of democracy worldwide…’
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.