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Book Synopsis South Africa’s Exports Performance by : Rahul Anand
Download or read book South Africa’s Exports Performance written by Rahul Anand and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2016-02-12 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite a substantial and prolonged exchange rate depreciation, South Africa’s export performance has disappointed since the global financial crisis. In this paper we focus on the role of structural factors in reducing the responsiveness of South African exports to the real exchange rate depreciation. To this end, we construct a unique database of export performance at the firm level. Our analysis suggests that electricity bottlenecks, limited product market competition, and labor market constraints have reduced the responsiveness of firms’ exports to the rand depreciation. On the other hand, a firm’s ability to diversify its exports has helped it benefit more from currency movements.
Book Synopsis South Africa's Exports Performance by : Rahul Anand
Download or read book South Africa's Exports Performance written by Rahul Anand and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Consequences of Policy Uncertainty by : Sandile Hlatshwayo
Download or read book The Consequences of Policy Uncertainty written by Sandile Hlatshwayo and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2016-09-23 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, the link between the real effective exchange rate (REER) and exports in South Africa has weakened. While exports still rise in response to REER depreciations, the REER-export elasticity is below historical estimates. The literature has put forward a number of possible explanations, from multi-national supply-chains to muted exchange rate pass-through. This research explores the role of policy uncertainty in reducing the responsiveness of exports to relative price changes. We construct a novel “news chatter” measure of policy uncertainty and examine how it, paired with other supply-side constraints, can improve our understanding of export performance. We find that increased policy uncertainty diminishes the responsiveness of exports to the REER and has short and long-run level effects on export performance. Finally, we show that a measure of competitiveness that adjusts for uncertainty and supply-side constraints greatly outperforms the REER in tracking exports performance.
Author :United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) Publisher :United Nations ISBN 13 :9211561884 Total Pages :114 pages Book Rating :4.2/5 (115 download)
Book Synopsis Economic Development in Africa 2008 by : United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)
Download or read book Economic Development in Africa 2008 written by United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and published by United Nations. This book was released on 2008-09-15 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This years report examines Africas export performance after trade liberalization in order to draw lessons for use in the design of future development strategies. It identifies Africas weak supply response as the most important impediment to the continents export performance, suggesting that future export policies should focus more on ways to increase production for export. The publication proposes some policies that could help Africa to refocus its development priorities on structural transformation in order to increase the continents supply capacity and export response.
Download or read book Trade for Growth written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Export Performance in Africa by : Shahla Shapouri
Download or read book Export Performance in Africa written by Shahla Shapouri and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Consequences of Policy Uncertainty by : Sandile Hlatshwayo
Download or read book The Consequences of Policy Uncertainty written by Sandile Hlatshwayo and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, the link between the real effective exchange rate (REER) and exports inSouth Africa has weakened. While exports still rise in response to REER depreciations, the REER-export elasticity is below historical estimates. The literature has put forward a number of possible explanations, from multi-national supply-chains to muted exchange rate pass-through.This research explores the role of policy uncertainty in reducing the responsiveness of exports to relative price changes. We construct a novel 'news chatter' measure of policy uncertainty and examine how it, paired with other supply-side constraints, can improve our understanding of export performance. We find that increased policy uncertainty diminishes the responsiveness of exports to the REER and has short and long-run level effects on export performance. Finally, we show that a measure of competitiveness that adjusts for uncertainty and supply-side constraints greatly outperforms the REER in tracking exports performance.
Book Synopsis The Export Performance of Sub-Saharan Africa, 1970-19+L69390 by : Mr.Joshua E. Greene
Download or read book The Export Performance of Sub-Saharan Africa, 1970-19+L69390 written by Mr.Joshua E. Greene and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 1992-07-01 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The export performance of Sub-Saharan Africa has lagged behind that of developing countries in other regions for the past two decades, and total export proceeds have fallen significantly since 1980. Many factors explain this outcome, including continued concentration in slowly-growing non-fuel primary commodities and domestic economic policies that have discouraged new investment that could promote diversification and increased production of traditional crops. Diversification into new agricultural products and light manufactures could boost export earnings, but only if the region can compete successfully with existing producers elsewhere. In most countries this will require major structural reforms to create a more attractive economic environment.
Book Synopsis Export Tax Incentives by : Mark C. Thompson
Download or read book Export Tax Incentives written by Mark C. Thompson and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ... examines the history of export tax incentives under the Internal Revenue Code and then discusses the rules pertaining to interest-charge domestic international sales corporations (IC DISCs), which currently constitute the only export tax incentive under the Code. The IC DISC rules are a remnant from the DISC rules, which were originally enacted by the Revenue Act of 1971 and then significantly revised by the Deficit Reduction Act of 1984.
Book Synopsis The Role of Exports in South Africa's Economic Development, 1961-1976 by : W. N. Meyer
Download or read book The Role of Exports in South Africa's Economic Development, 1961-1976 written by W. N. Meyer and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis South Africa’s Exports Performance by : Rahul Anand
Download or read book South Africa’s Exports Performance written by Rahul Anand and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2016-02-12 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite a substantial and prolonged exchange rate depreciation, South Africa’s export performance has disappointed since the global financial crisis. In this paper we focus on the role of structural factors in reducing the responsiveness of South African exports to the real exchange rate depreciation. To this end, we construct a unique database of export performance at the firm level. Our analysis suggests that electricity bottlenecks, limited product market competition, and labor market constraints have reduced the responsiveness of firms’ exports to the rand depreciation. On the other hand, a firm’s ability to diversify its exports has helped it benefit more from currency movements.
Book Synopsis South Africa by : International Monetary Fund. African Dept.
Download or read book South Africa written by International Monetary Fund. African Dept. and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2014-12-11 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Selected Issues paper estimates the potential growth rate for South Africa using different methodologies. In line with existing studies and findings for other emerging markets, the paper finds that South Africa’s potential growth rate has declined in the post global financial crisis period. Though there is substantial uncertainty, South Africa’s potential growth is estimated to have fallen from an average of 3.5 to 4 percent during 2000–08 to 2.25 to 2.50 percent in 2010–14, implying that the output gap in 2014 would be between –0.5 and –1.3 percent of GDP.
Book Synopsis Can Africa Export Manufactures? by : Ibrahim Elbadawi
Download or read book Can Africa Export Manufactures? written by Ibrahim Elbadawi and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1999 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: May 1999 - Africa's poor performance in manufactured exports in the 1990s (relative to East Asia) appears to be largely the result of bad policies-especially policies that affect transaction costs. Elbadawi analyzes the determinants of manufactured exports in Africa and other developing countries, guided by three pivotal views on Sub-Saharan Africa's (Africa's) prospects in manufactured exports: Adrian Woods holds that Africa cannot have comparative advantage in exports of labor-intensive manufactures (even if broadly defined to include raw material processing) because its natural resources endowment is greater than its human resources endowment (endowment thesis); Paul Collier argues that, for most of Africa, unusually high (policy-induced) transaction costs are the main source of Africa's comparative disadvantage in manufactured exports (transaction thesis); A third approach (Elbadawi and Helleiner) emphasizes the importance of stable, competitive real exchange rates for profitability of exports in low-income countries (exchange rate-led strategy). Elbadawi tests the implications of these three views with an empirical model of manufactured export performance (manufactured exports' share of GDP), using a panel of 41 countries for 1980-95. His findings: Corroborate the predictions of the transaction thesis, in that transaction costs are major determinants of manufactures exports. Investing in reducing these costs generates the highest payoff for export capacity; Lend support for the exchange rate-led strategy. After controlling for other factors, ratios of natural resources per worker were not robustly associated with export performance across countries, but this cannot be taken as formal rejection of the endowment thesis - unless one is prepared to assume that manufactured exports' share of GDP was highly correlated with ratios of manufactured to aggregate (or primary) exports. But this is not unlikely. This paper-a product of Public Economics, Development Research Group-is part of a larger effort in the group to research manufactures exports' competitiveness. The author may be contacted at [email protected].
Book Synopsis The Export Performance of Sub-Saharan Africa, 1970-90 by : Roy C. Baban
Download or read book The Export Performance of Sub-Saharan Africa, 1970-90 written by Roy C. Baban and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Improving Manufacturing Performance in South Africa by : Avril Joffe
Download or read book Improving Manufacturing Performance in South Africa written by Avril Joffe and published by IDRC. This book was released on 1995 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Improving Manufacturing Performance in South Africa
Book Synopsis The Oxford Handbook of the South African Economy by : Arkebe Oqubay
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of the South African Economy written by Arkebe Oqubay and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-01-20 with total page 1153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While sharing some characteristics with other middle-income countries, South Africa is a country with a unique economic history and distinctive economic features. It is a regional economic powerhouse that plays a significant role, not only in southern Africa and in the continent, but also as a member of BRICS. However, there has been a lack of structural transformation and weak economic growth, and South Africa faces the profound triple challenges of poverty, inequality, and unemployment. Any meaningful debate about economic policies to address these challenges needs to be informed by a deep understanding of historical developments, robust empirical evidence, and rigorous analysis of South Africa's complex economic landscape. This volume seeks to provide a wide-ranging set of original, detailed, and state-of-the-art analytical perspectives that contribute to scientific knowledge as well as to well-informed and productive discourse on the South African economy. While concentrating on the more recent economic issues facing South Africa, the handbook also provides historical and political context. It offers an in-depth examination of strategic issues in the country's key economic sectors, and brings together diverse analytical perspectives.
Book Synopsis The South African Economy by : D. Hobart Houghton
Download or read book The South African Economy written by D. Hobart Houghton and published by Cape Town ; New York : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1976 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
