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Evaluating the impact of Africa Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) in South Africa's economy

Several studies have examined the relationship between trade liberalisation policies, economic growth and development. These existing studies have in many ways overlooked the role played by Africa Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) since its inception as early as 2000. This study attempts to highligh...

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Main Author: Ndlovu, Simphiwe
Other Authors: Rogers, Steven Nabieu
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Language:English
Published: Research of GSB 2018
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description Several studies have examined the relationship between trade liberalisation policies, economic growth and development. These existing studies have in many ways overlooked the role played by Africa Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) since its inception as early as 2000. This study attempts to highlight and evaluate the role of AGOA within a South African economy context through the use of inductive quantitative research technique. The auto-regressive distributed lag (ARDL) framework was used in the bound testing cointegration process, which enabled the researcher to obtain the current impact on trade liberalisation and economic growth under AGOA in South Africa. Since the study used ARDL to test AGOA benefits in human capital, capital investment, unemployment rate and trade liberation means of finding interchanging of ideas between South Africa and United State of America and importantly the improved economic growth. The results showed no improvement in human capital, stagnant unemployment rate, no evidence of South Africa economy transformed into knowledge based economy; the transfer of investment in South Africa through AGOA legislation does not show an improving economy and this could be coursed by the tertiary sector growing faster relative to other sectors. The study concludes that the AGOA deals must at least ensure the USA firms are opening new branches in South Africa which will create new jobs and with the outcome of the production of goods and services which will directly increase the demand of highly skilled work force.
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spelling oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/27440 Evaluating the impact of Africa Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) in South Africa's economy Ndlovu, Simphiwe Rogers, Steven Nabieu Development Finance Several studies have examined the relationship between trade liberalisation policies, economic growth and development. These existing studies have in many ways overlooked the role played by Africa Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) since its inception as early as 2000. This study attempts to highlight and evaluate the role of AGOA within a South African economy context through the use of inductive quantitative research technique. The auto-regressive distributed lag (ARDL) framework was used in the bound testing cointegration process, which enabled the researcher to obtain the current impact on trade liberalisation and economic growth under AGOA in South Africa. Since the study used ARDL to test AGOA benefits in human capital, capital investment, unemployment rate and trade liberation means of finding interchanging of ideas between South Africa and United State of America and importantly the improved economic growth. The results showed no improvement in human capital, stagnant unemployment rate, no evidence of South Africa economy transformed into knowledge based economy; the transfer of investment in South Africa through AGOA legislation does not show an improving economy and this could be coursed by the tertiary sector growing faster relative to other sectors. The study concludes that the AGOA deals must at least ensure the USA firms are opening new branches in South Africa which will create new jobs and with the outcome of the production of goods and services which will directly increase the demand of highly skilled work force. 2018-02-09T10:49:10Z 2018-02-09T10:49:10Z 2017 Master Thesis Masters MCom http://hdl.handle.net/11427/27440 eng application/pdf Research of GSB Faculty of Commerce University of Cape Town
spellingShingle Development Finance
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Evaluating the impact of Africa Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) in South Africa's economy
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title Evaluating the impact of Africa Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) in South Africa's economy
title_full Evaluating the impact of Africa Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) in South Africa's economy
title_fullStr Evaluating the impact of Africa Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) in South Africa's economy
title_full_unstemmed Evaluating the impact of Africa Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) in South Africa's economy
title_short Evaluating the impact of Africa Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) in South Africa's economy
title_sort evaluating the impact of africa growth and opportunity act agoa in south africa s economy
topic Development Finance
url http://hdl.handle.net/11427/27440
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