Linking Southern Africa into South Africa's global value chains

Karishma Banga and Neil Balchin

No wp-2019-62, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: Regional integration; Regional value chains; Global value chains (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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