Africa’s digital future makes an important and timely contribution to the literature on Africa, exploring the many opportunities and challenges that the continent faces in a world characterised by accelerating technological change. Edited by Prof…
The purpose of this study is to investigate the extent to which industrialization strategies and policies in Southern Africa, in particular the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) industrialization policy and the Southern African…
International economic theory states that a country should specialize in the production of goods and services that it can produce at a lower relative opportunity cost and import those goods and services that it can produce at a higher relative…
TRADE-SA-Tunisia export opportunities project- Report back on 1st workshop. With South Africa and Tunisia being located at opposite ends of the African continent and their main export markets being in Europe and other major trading regions, one…
WTO Chairholder Prof.Wilma Viviers from North-West University and her colleagues write an opinion piece in the World Trade Report of 2019 titled "MSMES and services trade: A pathway to inclusive growth in developing economies?". Introduction: There…
Can the digital economy help to alleviate the problem of inequality and forge more inclusive growth or will it exacerbate divisions as time goes by, to the detriment of those countries (including South Africa, India and Brazil) that have among the…
Prof. Tabitha Kiriti-Nganga delivered a presentation on 41st regional course on key issues on the international economic agenda. The presentation covered: Kenya’s experience in economic development Attempts at diversifying its economic…
The economies of southern Africa all face significant development challenges, not helped by the fact that many of these countries are ill-prepared for the demands of the rapidly advancing digital era. Given its heterogeneous membership and therefore…