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Linking Southern Africa into South Africa's global value chains

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  • Karishma Banga
  • Neil Balchin

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This study explores the potential for South Africa to become an engine for intra- regional trade and industrial development by linking other Southern African countries to its global value chains and, in the process, improving its global trade competitiveness. The study identifies 'lead products' exported by South Africa, and then uses revealed comparative advantage and unit cost analysis to identify intermediate inputs in which Southern African countries have competitiveness to export that is currently untapped due to a lack of supply capacity or other factors.

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  • Karishma Banga & Neil Balchin, 2019. "Linking Southern Africa into South Africa's global value chains," WIDER Working Paper Series wp-2019-62, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
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