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Industrial policy forms the core of TIPS’s work. In this context, TIPS supports the Department of Trade and Industry (the dti), the Departmenet of Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation (DPME), the Department of Science and Technology (DST) and several other departments and stakeholders with targeted studies to support policy development for industrial and trade policy as well as manufacturing growth.
TIPS undertakes research, among others, into national and regional sectors, value chains and clusters; the impact of state and private institutions on manufacturing growth and diversification; the barriers to entry to small and medium enterprise in manufacturing; the extent and nature of innovation; and the impact of manufacturing on broader economic growth and development, income distribution and job creation.
Trade research has also been an important research area of TIPS since its establishment. TIPS has looked at many different aspects of international trade, including country studies, trade policy, export development and the relationship between trade and industrial policy.
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- Year 2020
- Organisation TIPS
- Author(s) Sandy Lowitt (TIPS)
- Countries and Regions South Africa
As South Africa responds to COVID-19 and aims to stimulate the economy and job creation post lockdown, an opportunity should not be missed to consider investing in new product markets which could increase the size and dynamism of the manufacturing sector. Such a package could contribute to arresting the trend…
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02 January 2021
Post COVID-19 industrial development projects: Containerised short sea shipping service
- Year 2020
- Organisation TIPS
- Author(s) Sandy Lowitt (TIPS)
- Countries and Regions South Africa
As South Africa responds to COVID-19 and aims to stimulate the economy and job creation post lockdown, an opportunity should not be missed to consider investing in new product markets which could increase the size and dynamism of the manufacturing sector. Such a package could contribute to arresting the trend…
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02 January 2021
Post COVID-19 industrial development projects: Alternative fuel
- Year 2020
- Organisation TIPS
- Author(s) Sandy Lowitt (TIPS)
- Countries and Regions South Africa
As South Africa responds to COVID-19 and aims to stimulate the economy and job creation post lockdown, an opportunity should not be missed to consider investing in new product markets which could increase the size and dynamism of the manufacturing sector. Such a package could contribute to arresting the trend…
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- Alternative fuel - post covid industrial development projects (1225 Downloads)
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02 January 2021
Post COVID-19 industrial development projects: Furfural and furfuryl alcohol plant (biochemicals)
- Year 2020
- Organisation TIPS
- Author(s) Sandy Lowitt (TIPS)
- Countries and Regions South Africa
As South Africa responds to COVID-19 and aims to stimulate the economy and job creation post lockdown, an opportunity should not be missed to consider investing in new product markets which could increase the size and dynamism of the manufacturing sector. Such a package could contribute to arresting the trend…
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- Year 2020
- Organisation TIPS
- Author(s) Sandy Lowitt (TIPS)
- Countries and Regions South Africa
As South Africa responds to COVID-19 and aims to stimulate the economy and job creation post lockdown, an opportunity should not be missed to consider investing in new product markets which could increase the size and dynamism of the manufacturing sector. Such a package could contribute to arresting the trend…
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- Post covid industrial development projects: Motocycle components (1346 Downloads)
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02 January 2021
SOC mandates, outcomes and the COVID-19 pandemic
- Year 2020
- Organisation TIPS
- Countries and Regions South Africa
This paper: Reviews the socio-economic mandates of the major state-owned companies (SOCs) as reflected in official documents, sometimes only implicitly; Provides case studies of four leading SOCs in terms of their socio-economic and financial mandates over the past decade or so; and The actual and potential impact of the COVID-19…
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- SOC mandates, outcomes and the COVID-19 pandemic (1543 Downloads)
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19 November 2020
Future-proofing the plastics value chain in Southern Africa
WIDER Working Paper 2020/148 This working paper, Future-proofing the plastics value chain in Southern Africa, forms part of the project: Southern Africa – Towards Inclusive Economic Development (SA-TIED) Abstract Plastics are ubiquitous across the region and play an important role in multiple industries. Most plastic products are based on a value chain…
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- Year 2020
- Organisation TIPS
- Author(s) Nishal Robb
- Countries and Regions South Africa
Illicit financial flows (IFFs) of various kinds, and the role of tax havens in facilitating these flows, have come under increased scrutiny since the global financial crisis of 2007-2009. A series of high-profile scandals and leaks of sensitive information about how corporates and individuals organise their financial affairs to escape…
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WIDER Working Paper 2020/23 This working paper, Initial considerations for the creation of an inter-regional industrial hemp value chain between Malawi and South Africa, forms part of the project: Southern Africa – Towards Inclusive Economic Development (SA-TIED) Abstract Interest in industrial hemp has revived in the past 20 years. Malawi is considering…
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19 May 2020
The electrotechnical industry regional value chain in Southern Africa A case for South Africa and Zambia
- Year 2019
- Organisation TIPS and ZIPAR
- Author(s) Sithembiso Mtanga (TIPS), Francis Ziba (ZIPAR) and Bernard Tembo (ZIPAR)
- Countries and Regions Zambia
The Southern African Development Community (SADC) member states have placed industrial development at the core of the region’s integrated development agenda. This report by Trade & Industrial Policy Strategies (TIPS) and the Zambia Institute for Policy Analysis & Research (ZIPAR) is part of a programme that seeks to identify existing…
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