South African Managed Trade Policy: The Wasting of a Mineral Endowment (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780275948146)

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.

Author: Graham A. Davis
ISBN-10: 0275948145
ISBN-13: 9780275948146
Publisher: Praeger
Language: English
Published: 05/25/1994
Pages: 168
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.91lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.44d