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Gaining from Trade in Southern Africa

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  • Carolyn Jenkins
  • Jonathan Leape
  • Lynne Thomas

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Over the past three decades, economic growth in most of the countries of Southern Africa has been too slow to generate significant improvements in the standard of living or to lift large fractions of the population out of poverty. Explaining Africa’s poor growth performance and, more generally, the sharp differences in growth performance across countries and regions has been the focus of at least 14 studies in the 1990s. One conclusion to emerge from these studies is that openness to trade is associated with higher rates of economic growth. These findings have reinforced an increasing conviction among policy-makers in Southern Africa that regional trade liberalisation is an important step in efforts to improve growth performance throughout the region.

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  • Carolyn Jenkins & Jonathan Leape & Lynne Thomas, 2000. "Gaining from Trade in Southern Africa," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Carolyn Jenkins & Jonathan Leape & Lynne Thomas (ed.), Gaining from Trade in Southern Africa, chapter 1, pages 1-23, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-52346-3_1
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230523463_1
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    1. S Griffith-Jones (IDS, University of Sussex) and J Leape (LSE), "undated". "Capital Flows to developing countries: does the emperor have clothes?," QEH Working Papers qehwps89, Queen Elizabeth House, University of Oxford.
    2. Victor H Mlambo & Daniel N Mlambo, 2018. "Challenges Impeding Regional Integration in Southern Africa," Journal of Economics and Behavioral Studies, AMH International, vol. 10(2), pages 250-261.
    3. Sophie Chauvin & Guillaume Gaulier, 2002. "Regional Trade Integration in Southern Africa," Working Papers 2002-12, CEPII research center.
    4. John Bosco Nizeimana & Alfred G. Nhema, 2016. "Industrialising the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Economies: Prospects and Challenges," Journal of Social Science Studies, Macrothink Institute, vol. 3(2), pages 1-7, July.
    5. Nin Pratt, Alejandro & Diao, Xinshen & Bahta, Yonas, 2009. "How important is a regional free trade area for Southern Africa?: Potential impacts and structural constraints," IFPRI discussion papers 888, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).
    6. Steve Onyeiwu & Hemanta Shrestha, 2004. "Determinants of Foreign Direct Investment in Africa," Journal of Developing Societies, , vol. 20(1-2), pages 89-106, June.
    7. Shannon Tagg, 2002. "Transaction Costs and Clothing and Textile Trade in SADC," Working Papers 02064, University of Cape Town, Development Policy Research Unit.

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