Agricultural trade policy reform in South Africa

Trade Reform in South Africa: Impacts on Households

Using a calibrated general equilibrium model of the South African economy, with 24 types of households identified by ethnic background and income classification, and labor disaggregated into 13 different categories, this paper assesses the impacts of trade reform on household incomes and income distribution. Our general conclusion is that trade reform will most likely improve the average welfar...

The Domestic Politics of Agricultural Trade Policymaking in South Africa

Agricultural trade reform under the Doha

© 2008 The Authors Journal compilation © 2008 Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society Inc. and Blackwell Publishing Asia Pty Ltd doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8489.2007.00404.x Blackwell Publishing Ltd Oxford, UK AJAR ustralian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics 1364-985X © 2008 The Authors Journ Compilat on © 2008 A str lian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society Inc. and...

South African Trade Policy Matters : Trade Performance and Trade Policy

South African trade policy has exerted a major influence on the composition and aggregate growth of trade. In the Apartheid period, trade protection seriously impeded both exports and imports, and the economy depended on favorable global commodity price trends to avoid running into an external constraint. South Africa developed a comparative advantage in capital-intensive primary and manufactur...

information policy in a new south africa

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