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Subject(s)

• International economic relations—Congresses [Browse]
• South Africa—Foreign economic relations—Congresses [Browse]
• South Africa—Economic policy—Congresses [Browse]
• South Africa—Economic conditions—1991-—Congresses [Browse]

Related name

• Baker, Pauline H. [Browse]
• Boraine, Alex [Browse]
• Krafchik, Warren [Browse]

Summary note

• With the recent announcement of the lifting of sanctions, South Africa stands poised to emerge from years of economic isolation into a world undergoing dramatic transformation. What patterns of trade and investment in the world at large will shape the external environment facing South Africa in the 1990s? And what will make a developing country like South Africa internationally competitive in this decade?
• Furthermore, what role can international trade and investment play in spurring economic growth in South Africa, alleviating the country's poverty and promoting a more equitable distribution of wealth? These are some of the questions that came under the spotlight at an international conference organised in 1993 by The Aspen Institute and IDASA (The Institute for a Democratic Alternative for South Africa). At this conference, held in South Africa, a number of leading economists and policy advisers from the United States, Asia, Latin America and Africa met to stimulate discussion about a range of critical issues facing the South African economy in the years ahead.
• This book, like the conference on which it is based, explores South Africa's international economic policy options in the 1990s and provides essential reading for those wishing to understand emerging international economic trends and their implications for South and Southern Africa.

Notes

Papers from "an international economics conference in South Africa in April 1993"--P. [vii].

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (p. [252]-258) and index.

Contents

• Introduction / Warren Krafchik
• Pt. 1. The Global Framework. 1. Trends in World Trade and Foreign Direct Investment / Robert Lawrence. 2. Changes in Capital Markets for Developing Countries / Paul Krugman
• Pt. 2. International Competitiveness. 3. What Will Make South Africa Internationally Competitive? / Sanjaya Lall. 4. Trade Policy and International Competitiveness: The South Korean Experience / Duck-Woo Nam. 5. Foreign Direct Investment: Policies and Experiences of Malaysia and Other High-Growth Asian Economies / Daim Zainuddin. 6. Meeting the Global Challenge: A Framework for Industrial Revival in South Africa / Avril Joffe, David Kaplan, Raphael Kaplinsky and David Lewis. 7. The South African Trade Policy Debate: A Business Perspective / Paul R. Hatty. 8. An Overview of Exchange Rate Policy in South Africa / Brian Kahn. 9. South African Exchange Rate Policy: A Reserve Bank Perspective / Chris L. Stals
• Pt. 3. International Arrangements and Institutions.

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ISBN

• 086486258X (David Philip : pbk.)
• 0815707754 (Brookings Institution : pbk.)

LCCN

94173462

OCLC

30263267

RCP

C - S

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