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Author: Mats Lundahl
Publisher: Nordic Africa Institute
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 138
ISBN-13: 9789171065322
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFocuses on the place of Southern Africa in the globalized economy. Identifies the overall economic trends in the African continent and the responses, required and actual, to the impact of an increasingly interdependent world economy.
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 2009-03-19
Total Pages: 457
ISBN-13: 9264044817
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book analyses key elements of the trade performance of the so-called BRIICS: Brazil, Russia, India, Indonesia, China and South Africa, in relation to the rest of the world, focusing on trade and other policies influencing that performance. It also presents a separate chapter for each country.
Author: Toyin Falola
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2018-05-30
Total Pages: 261
ISBN-13: 3319749056
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book considers the promises and challenges of globalization for Africa. Why have African states been perennially unable to diversify their economies and move beyond export of primary produce, even as Southeast Asia has made a tremendous leap into manufacturing? What institutional impediments are in play in African states? What reforms would mitigate the negative effects of globalization and distribute its benefits more equitably? Covering critical themes such as political leadership, security challenges, the creative sector, and community life, essays in this volume argue that the starting point for Africa’s meaningful engagement with the rest of the world must be to look inward, examine Africa’s institutions, and work towards reforms that promote inclusiveness and stability.
Author: Bessie House-Soremekun
Publisher: University Rochester Press
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 488
ISBN-13: 1580463924
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first comprehensive work on globalization within the context of sustainable development initiatives in Africa.
Author: Sean Jacobs
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2019-03-11
Total Pages: 206
ISBN-13: 0253040574
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Media in Postapartheid South Africa, author Sean Jacobs turns to media politics and the consumption of media as a way to understand recent political developments in South Africa and their relations with the African continent and the world. Jacobs looks at how mass media define the physical and human geography of the society and what it means for comprehending changing notions of citizenship in postapartheid South Africa. Jacobs claims that the media have unprecedented control over the distribution of public goods, rights claims, and South Africa's integration into the global political economy in ways that were impossible under the state-controlled media that dominated the apartheid years. Jacobs takes a probing look at television commercials and the representation of South Africans, reality television shows and South African continental expansion, soap operas and postapartheid identity politics, and the internet as a space for reassertions and reconfigurations of identity. As South Africa becomes more integrated into the global economy, Jacobs argues that local media have more weight in shaping how consumers view these products in unexpected and consequential ways.
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 2018-07-26
Total Pages: 153
ISBN-13: 9264085394
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow Immigrants Contribute to South Africa’s Economy is the result of a project carried out by the OECD Development Centre and the International Labour Organization, with support from the European Union.
Author: Scarlett Cornelissen
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-05-15
Total Pages: 148
ISBN-13: 135188879X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFocusing on the political economy of the international tourism sector in the era of globalization and its impact in developing contexts, this book employs a case study analysis of South Africa to assess how international tourism as a global system of trade, production, exchange and governance plays out in developing countries. It also examines its benefits and disadvantages for these countries. Scarlett Cornelissen explores the nature and extent of global tourism production, consumption and regulation and how these bear upon developmental prospects, specifically in the South. She also highlights lessons for other developing countries about the limitations and possibilities for greater linkage to the global tourism system. The book is suitable for both scholars and practitioners interested in global tourism, international political economy, development, Africa and cultural studies.
Author: Elsabé Loots
Publisher:
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 52
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Kym Anderson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2018-02-22
Total Pages: 577
ISBN-13: 1108135609
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this anthology, editors Kym Anderson and Vicente Pinilla have gathered together some of the world's leading wine economists and economic historians to examine the development of national wine industries before and during the two waves of globalization. The empirically-based chapters analyze developments in all key wine-producing and consuming countries using a common methodology to explain long-term trends and cycles in wine production, consumption, and trade. The authors cover topics such as the role of new technologies, policies, and institutions, as well as exchange rate movements, international market developments, evolutions in grape varieties, and wine quality changes. The final chapter draws on an economic model of global wine markets, to project those markets to 2025 based on various assumptions about population and income growth, real exchange rates, and other factors. All authors of the book contributed to a unique global database of annual data back to the mid-nineteenth century which has been compiled by the book editors.
Author: Margaret C. Lee
Publisher: Zed Books Ltd.
Published: 2014-10-09
Total Pages: 270
ISBN-13: 1780323530
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAre Africa's world markets really contributing to development across the continent for individuals, nations and regions? This is the key question posed by Margaret Lee in this provocative book, in which she argues that all too often the voices of African traders are obscured amid a blizzard of statistical analysis. However, it is these very voices - from those operating on the ground as formal or informal traders - that must be listened to in order to form a true understanding of the impact trade regimes have on these individuals and their communities. Featuring a wealth of oral histories from across sub-Saharan Africa and beyond, including Africans in China, Africa's World Trade offers a unique insight into how the complexity of international trade agreements can shape the everyday lives of ordinary Africans.
