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    Libertés et Contraintes dans la Règlementation du Marché des Télécommunications en Afrique de l'Ouest exemple du Marché Sénégalais / Freedoms and Constraints in the Regulation of the Telecommunications Market in West Africa - Senegalese Market Example

    The United States have for years reserved the management pf their telecommunications sector for a single public company, but it later became a private company. The company operated within the framework of a regulation that defined its rights and o…

    Abdoulaye Sakho

    • Telecommunications
    • Déréglementation
    • Deregulation
    • Service industries
    • Technological innovations--Environmental aspects
    61 pages

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    Impact of Information Technology on the Nigerian Economy: A Study of Manufacturing and Services Sectors in the South Western and South Eastern Zones of Nigeria

    "In Nigeria preliminary investigations show that only a few organizations in the economy have adopted the ICTs, but there has not been formal study to determine the level of adoption and impact on the efficiency of the organizations and the conseque…

    David Ola Kajogbola

    • Information and Communication Technologies
    • Telecommunication Infrastructure
    • Employment
    • Information technology
    • Economic development--Social aspects
    • Manufacturing industries
    • Service industries
    59 pages

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    Trade in services from controlling to managing the movement of persons in SADC

    "Services cover a wide variety of economic and social activities. They embrace communications,transport, finance, energy distribution, construction and business services (intermediate services), as well as final-demand services such as tourism, re…

    Nkululeko Khumalo

    • Liberalisation
    • World Trade Organisation (WTO)
    • General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade in Services (GATS)
    • SADC
    • Service provider
    • International trade
    • Emigration and immigration
    • Service industries
    36 pages

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    A National Trade Policy for Botswana: Zero Draft and Consultations

    "Trade policy plays a key role in the flow of goods and services both within and between countries. The former is called domestic trade while the latter is called international trade. The focus of this study will be on international trade. Countries…

    Botswana Institute for Development Policy Analysis (BIDPA)

    • National Trade Policy
    • Domestic Trade
    • International trade
    • Economic policy
    • Intellectual property
    • Agriculture--Economic aspects
    • Service industries
    • Transportation
    276 pages

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    OSSREA Bulletin Vol 6 No 3

    In this bulletin several news items scheduled for October 2009 within OSSREA was discussed. The articles discussed amoung other: Training sessions, the 2009 research grant awards and development of new websites. New publications are also listed and …

    Emaculate Ingwani

    Tefera Darge

    Nyasha Kaseke

    Steven Jerie

    Migai Akech

    • Ethical Consideration
    • Confidentiality
    • Anonymity
    • Migrant Weavers
    • Wheat Production
    • Electricity Power Outages
    • Mashonaland Central
    • Spheres of Influence
    • Reilly’s Law of Retail Gravitation
    • Migration
    • Women's rights
    • Agriculture--Economic aspects
    • Service industries
    • Democracy
    98 pages

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    Transport Services in SACU: Accelerating Harmonisation and Liberalisation

    "Services are without doubt a key driver of economic growth and fundamentally influence (or determine) the trade capacity of countries. Like many other World Trade Organisation (WTO) member states, Southern African Customs Union (SACU) countries rec…

    Tsidiso Disenyana

    Nkululeko Khumalo

    • Trade in services
    • Southern African Customs Union
    • SACU
    • Global production processes
    • Trade liberalisation
    • Transportation
    • International economic relations
    • Regional economics
    • Service industries
    51 pages

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    Services trade in Southern Africa a literature survey and overview

    "While all services sectors are important, and deserve attention, this report focuses on core infrastructure services because they create an enabling environment in which other services develop and/or thrive. The tourism sector has been added becaus…

    Nkululeko Khumalo

    • Transport services
    • Energy
    • Telecommunication services
    • Negotiations
    • International trade
    • Economic development
    • Infrastructure (Economics)
    • Service industries
    45 pages

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    SADC Trade in Services: Negotiating the National Interest

    "The paper begins with a review of the role of the service industry in the SADC economy, focusing on its GDP, employment, trade and investment. It identifies three major sectors for illustrative evaluation, namely transportation, financial and tel…

    Matthew Stern

    Sarah Truen

    Yash Ramkolowan

    • Gross Domestic Product (GDP)
    • Employment
    • Economic development
    • SADC
    • International trade
    • Service industries
    • Investments
    • Regional economics
    31 pages

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    Services trade Liberalisation and the Role of the Services Sector in South African Development

    "The purpose of this paper is to explore the implications of services trade liberalisation for employment creation and industrial policy goals in South Africa. It begins by critically examining the debate surrounding the role of the services sector…

    Nicolette Cattaneo

    • Trade Liberalisation
    • Employment
    • International trade
    • International economic relations
    • Service industries
    25 pages

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    Perceptions of Employers about HIV/AIDS in Micro and Small Enterprises Employing Women Workers A Case Study of Harare

    "The study is on perceptions concerning HIV/AIDS amongst MSEs that employ women. It covers employers and employees in selected categories of the services sector. The conclusions are based on the opinions and views of respondents. The findings should…

    Trudie Kaniki

    • HIV/Aids and Productivity
    • Women Workers
    • Micro and Small Enterprises (MSE's)
    • HIV infections
    • AIDS (Disease)
    • Epidemics--Economic aspects
    • Health status indicators
    • Service industries
    53 pages

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    Determinants of Women's Participation in Industry and Service Sectors

    "This study analyses factors influencing women's participation in industrial services. Women face various constraints that affects their intersectional mobility in the labour market. These constraints include, discrimination in the labour market in …

    Grace Ongile

    • Women Employees
    • Industrial Services
    • Discrimination
    • Labour market
    • Structural adjustment (Economic policy)
    • Service industries
    • Wages
    34 pages

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    Accountability in the Provision of Social Services: A Framework for African Research

    "The three main forms of non-market provision have been government, charities, and self help groups. Although government provision is universal, in some societies charities are very substantial providers, and there have been major examples of se…

    Paul Collier

    • Service Providing Agencies
    • Intrinsic Motivation
    • Accountability
    • Service industries
    • Social security
    23 pages

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    Aid for Trade and Export Competitiveness: New Opportunities for Africa

    "This paper has argued that AFT can do much to support actions by governments and the private sector to improve the competitiveness of African products. Much of the national AFT agenda revolves around improving the performance of service industries…

    Bernard Hoekman

    Dominique Njinkeu

    • Regional Cooperation
    • Market Access
    • Aid for Trade
    • Export Competitiveness
    • International trade
    • Service industries
    32 pages

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    Determinants of Service Sector Growth in Botswana

    This study examines the factors affecting service sector growth and development in Botswana. Using annual time series data from 1980 to 2015, the study employs the auto regressive distributed lag (ARDL) estimation technique to identify the factors t…

    Mpho Raboloko

    • Auto Regressive Distributed Lag (ARDL)
    • Error Correction Model
    • Gross Domestic Product (GDP)
    • Service industries
    • International trade
    • Economic development
    22 pages

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    Understanding and Characterizing the Services Sector in South Africa: An Overview

    The South African services sector is large and growing. This coupled with declining employment shares in manufacturing and mining (i.e. deindustrialisation) suggests that South Africa is a de facto service-orientated economy. Employment patterns in …

    Haroon Bhorat

    Francois Steenkamp

    Christopher Rooney

    Nomsa Kachingwe

    Adrienne Lees

    • Economic Growth
    • Structural Change
    • Employment
    • Exports
    • Economic development
    • Service industries
    • Labour market
    81 pages

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    COVID-19 Lockdown in South Africa Highlights Unequal Access to Services

    The COVID-19 pandemic has placed unprecedented pressures on governments, economies, and families, posing what many observers consider the largest global peace-time challenge since the Great Depression a century ago. In South Africa, the government m…

    Thomas Isbell

    • COVID-19
    • Lockdown
    • Public Services
    • Access to Basic Resources
    • Public health
    • Service industries
    • Armed forces
    16 pages

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    Four Big Misconceptions About The Services Trade in Africa

    The Service sector is central to economic growth, trade and employment across the world. Trade in services has increased from 8.5 per cent of global GDP in 1995 to 13.1 per cent of GDP in 2017. However, Africa is taking less advantage of these oppor…

    Oumayma Bourhriba

    Uri Dadush

    • Service sector
    • Services Trade
    • Economic development
    • International trade
    • Labour
    • Service industries
    10 pages

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    Africa's Trade in Services and the African Continental Free Trade Area Agreement

    In recent years there has been growing interest in the role and position of the services sector and services trade in structural transformation and development. This is associated with the services sector’s significant share in domestic and global v…

    Nicolette Cattaneo

    • African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA)
    • Trade in services
    • Foreign Direct Investment (FDI)
    • International trade
    • Service industries
    60 pages

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