Graham A. Davis

South African Managed Trade Policy

The Wasting of a Mineral Endowment

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Produktbeschreibung

Since 1925, import substitution programs have diverted South Africa's mineral revenues away from efficient investments and into the creation of an uncompetitive manufacturing sector. Protection has recently been augmented by a General Export Incentive Scheme that was designed to increase manufacturing exports. A multisector general equilibrium analysis shows the export scheme is highly complex with unusual and undesirable structural effects, seeming little more than a continuation of social engineering of the past. This work provides a definitive analysis of past and present South African trade policy, using a methodology of interest to other trade and development researchers operating in similarly spare informational environments.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Praeger
• Seitenzahl: 168
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Mai 1994
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 425g
• ISBN-13: 9780275948146
• ISBN-10: 0275948145
• Artikelnr.: 22415115

Autorenporträt

GRAHAM A. DAVIS is Assistant Professor in the Mineral Economics Department at the Colorado School of Mines. Dr. Davis has lived and taught in South Africa.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments List of Illustrations Introduction A Brief Review of the
Trade Policy Debate The History of Managed Trade in South Africa A New
Trade Policy: Out of the Pan and into the Fire The General Export Incentive
Scheme The Regional Effects of the GEIS Delimiting the Theory of
Comparative Advantage: South Africa's Heckscher-Ohlin Goods A Search for
Unexploited Comparative Advantage in South African H-O Manufactures The
Empty Economics in South Africa's Industrial Policy Summary and Conclusions
Appendix A: The General Export Incentive Scheme (GEIS) Works Cited Index