This study provides a comparative analysis of the selection of seaports for containerised cargo in Southern Africa, with a special focus on South Africa. Ever since Jan van Riebeeck set foot on South African soil in the 17th century and a port was…
This paper aims to address some of South Africa’s shortcomings in its services trade by presenting a broad strategy that provides an overarching framework for South Africa’s trade activities in the services arena. The paper places particular…
Significant reductions in tariff and non-tariff barriers as well as advances in information technology over the last decades have allowed countries to expand their production process beyond national borders, reflecting the increasing relevance of…
Mr Christophe Degain and Dr Victor Kümmritz, from the WTO’s Economic Research and Statistics Division in Geneva, Switzerland, visited the NWU from 30 May-1 June 2017 to conduct a workshop on how a Trade in Value Added (TiVA) approach to measuring…
1.Motivation: The increasing relevance of time as a trade barrier;
2.The relationship between time and Global Value Chains (capital intensive goods are more sensitive to time);
3.Can the TFA promote a new wave of fragmentation?;
4.How the TFA is…