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Here is a selection of my writings. Most are written specifically for policy makers and a few for a more academic audience. However, they are all policy-oriented and are meant to be readable by non-specialists. For ease of browsing, they are grouped, somewhat arbitrarily, according to general subject matter. See also Geekonomics and oher newspaper columns on my Commentary page. For much more on the South African motor industry click here. |
Trade and Industrial Policies in Southern Africa |
SADC RoO in Textiles and Clothing | Updated Presentation on MIDP/APDP | |||
SADC members' industrial and tariff policies in textiles and clothing impede regional and global integration, February 2011. pdf file |
update of 2005 presentation on MIDP, incorporating further data and some analysis of APDP, July 2009. pdf file |
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South African Electricity Prices | South Africa's Trade and Industrial Policies | |||
notes on electricity pricing and power shortages in South Africa, May 2008. pdf file | a critique of South Africa's trade and industrial policies (2008, with Matthew Stern). pdf file | |||
Lessons on Investment Promotion: Ramatex, Namibia | AGOA's 'Commercial Availability' Requirement: Denim | |||
a review of lessons arising from a large textile and clothing investment (study completed before factory closed) (with Paulina Elago). pdf file |
an examination of the harmful effects of a restrictive sourcing requirement for denim products shipped under AGOA . pdf file |
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The Economics of MIDP | Trade and Poverty in SA: Motor Industry Case Study | |||
subsidies provided by South Africa's Motor Industry Development Program (MIDP) and some of the economic costs. pdf file |
a look at some of the implications for the poor of industrial policy in the South African motor industry (with Nnzeni Netshitomboni). pdf file |
Regionalism in Southern Africa |
Updated Review of SADC RoO | SADC Challenges (background paper) | ||||
Review of structure and implementation of SADC rules of origin, as part of SADC Trade Audit, May 2012. pdf file |
how SADC integration can be used to foster productivity growth and help meet regional development needs, September 2010. pdf file |
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SADC Challenges (presentation) | SACU Revenue Sharing (II) | ||||
presentation on SADC integration challenges prepared for launch of new SADC Trade Hub project, November 2010. pdf file |
deeper analysis of fundamental problems with SACU revenue sharing and trade policy-making arrangements, August 2006 (with Matthew Stern). pdf file | ||||
SACU Revenue Sharing (I) | Reforming SADC Rules of Origin | ||||
problems in implementing the new Southern Africa Customs Union (SACU) revenue sharing formula (with Matthew Stern). pdf file |
appraisal of SADC rules of origin prepared as part of mid-term review of Trade Protocol; analysis of lessons learned in SADC and elsewhere; proposals for reform. pdf file | ||||
An MIDP for SADC? | Rules of Origin as Development Tools? Some Lessons from SADC | ||||
assessment of the feasibility and benefits of emulating South Africa's MIDP in the rest of SADC; proposals for amending treatment of the motor industry in the Trade Protocol. pdf file |
flawed uses of rules of origin in trade preferences for developing countries; dangers of regional approaches to trade liberalization (revised Oct. 2004). pdf file |
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Rent-Seeking in SADC: RoO & Trade in Wheat Products | Revenue Implications of SADC | ||||
political economy of trade policies for wheat products in SADC; reasons for and consequences of failed trade liberalization. pdf file |
estimating and thinking about the fiscal implications of the SADC Trade Protocol. pdf file |
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SADC Rules of Origin: Undermining Regional Free Trade | The SADC Trade Protocol: Impacts, Issues and the Way Ahead | ||||
synthesis of research project on SADC rules of origin, presented at TIPS Annual Forum, Johannesburg South Africa, September 9-11, 2002. pdf file |
initial discussion of strategic issues and pitfalls in SADC regional integration. pdf file |
WTO and Country Issues |
Multilateral, Regional and Unilateral Options for Africa | Nepal: Porous Borders, Revenue Targets and Rent-Seeking | |||
review of strategic options for Africa's global integration, prepared as chapter for UNECA Report on Regional Integration in Africa (ARIA), 2003. pdf file |
in Glenn Jenkins et al Re-Engineering of Tax Systems in Low Income Countries: A Case Study of Nepal Boston, Dordrecht and London: Kluwer Academic Publishers 2002. |
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The WTO in the Millennium | Ghana's Trade Policies: Tariff Rate Structures and Revenues | |||
for the MIER National Economic Outlook Conference on Managing Economic Change Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, November 2001. pdf file |
USAID-funded research report prepared for Government of Ghana, 1999. pdf file | |||
Ghana's Trade Policies: Exemptions from Import Duty | Vietnam and AFTA: By Choice or Obligation? | |||
USAID-funded research report prepared for Government of Ghana, 1999. pdf file |
UNDP-Funded Research Report No. 4, Bureau of the National Committee for ASEAN, Office of the Government of Vietnam, Hanoi, September 1997. pdf file |
The Asian Crisis |
Thailand and the Crisis: Roots, Recovery and LR Competitiveness | Thailand, the IMF and the Economic Crisis: First In, Fast Out? | |||
in Asia Competiveness Report 1999 Geneva: World Economic Forum; revised later for Jeffrey Sachs, Klaus Schwab and Wing Thye Woo (eds.) The Asian Financial Crisis: Lessons for a Resilient Asia Cambridge MA: MIT Press, 2000. pdf file |
in Peter Chow and Brendan Gill (eds.) Weathering the Storm: The Asian Financial Crisis and Taiwan's Role in the Region Washington DC: The Brookings Institution, 2000. pdf file | |||
Comparative Social Impacts of the Asian Economic Crisis | ASEAN and the Crisis: Lessons for Vietnam | |||
in TDRI Social Impacts of the Asian Economic Crisis in Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines Bangkok: Thailand Development Research Institute, 1999 (with Sauwalak Kittiprapas and Chalongphob Sussangkarn). |
UNDP-Funded Research Report no. 7, Department of International Economic Organizations, Office of the Government of Vietnam, Hanoi, October 1998. pdf file | |||
Thailand: Recovery Prospects and Opportunities | Lao PDR: Macroeconomic Strategy | |||
Canberra: Commonwealth of Australia, 2000; principal author of three chapters of publication by East Asia Analytical Unit, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. |
UNDP-funded research report prepared for Ministry of Planning and Investment, 2000. pdf file |
Corruption |
Administrative Corruption and Taxation | Corruption and the Media in Thailand (in Thai) | |||
in International Tax and Public Finance 2, 1995 (397-417); reprinted in Gianluca Fiorentini and Stefano Zamagni (eds.) The Economics of Illegal Markets Cheltenham UK: Edward Elgar Publishing Company, 1999 (with W. Bentley MacLeod). pdf file |
for Thailand Development Research Institute Year-End Conference Transparency and Uncorrupt Society November 2000 (with Duangkamol Chotana). |
Fiscal Issues |
Fiscal Challenges of Regional Integration | Tax Incentives: Lessons for Malaysia | |||
presentation at IMF conference on Revenue Mobilization in Africa, Nairobi, March 2011. pdf file |
presentation to National Tax Conference of the Malaysia Institute of Taxation, Kuala Lumpur, August 2005. pdf file | |||
Are Investment Incentives Biased Against Small Firms in Thailand? | Tax Holidays: Give Them a Vacation | |||
in Journal of Developing Areas, October 1996 (with Robin Boadway and J-F Wen). |
in TDRI Quarterly Review, vol. 11, no. 3, September 1996, reprinted in The Nation (Bangkok) September 1996. | Investment Incentives and the Corporate Tax System in Malaysia | Indirect Taxes and Investment Incentives in Malaysia | |
in Anwar Shah (ed.) Fiscal Incentives for Investment in Developing Countries New York: Oxford University Press, 1995 (with Robin Boadway and Dale Chua). |
in Anwar Shah (ed.) Fiscal Incentives for Investment in Developing Countries New York: Oxford University Press, 1995 (with Robin Boadway and Dale Chua). | |||
Principles of Natural Resource Taxation | Equalization in a Federal State: An Economic Analysis | |||
a practical policy guide to principles of and lessons from international experience in resource taxation, with special reference to low and middle income countries, for the World Bank, 1993 (with Robin Boadway). pdf file |
research report for the Economic Council of Canada, 1982 (with Robin Boadway). | |||
The Efficiency Basis for Regional Employment Policies | Public Goods, Efficiency and Regional Fiscal Equalization | |||
first published in the Canadian Journal of Economics in 1981, and reprinted in Arnold Harberger and Glenn Jenkins (eds.) Cost-Benefit Analysis Cheltenham UK: Edward Elgar Publishing Company (with Robin Boadway). |
originally published in the Journal of Public Economics in 1974, this piece has been reprinted many times, most recently in Dennis C. Mueller (ed.) The Economics of Politics Cheltenham UK: Edward Elgar Publishing Company (with Peter Mieszkowski and Vern Henderson). |
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