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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"AGOA"”.
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Rules of origin and AGOA : the response of African clothing firms
… purposes to investigate the impact of the AGOA apparel provision on African apparel firms. The paper seeks three main objectives: (i) to investigate the importance of access to imports to African firms; (ii) to evaluate the statistical significance and magnitude of the export supply …
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An assessment of the implications of agoa on the South African poultry industry
… to the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) agreement, a preferential trade agreement (PTA) with the United States, South Africa derives several benefits. PTAs grant access to certain products from developing countries and, while the tariffs are sometimes not completely removed, the …
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Evaluating the impact of Africa Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) in South Africa's economy
… 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 …
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Trade development - the impact of trade preferences in facilitating competitive Industrial development : an Agoa Case Study
… study of the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) enacted by the United States (US) in 2000. The literature and empirical data show that exports do increase in certain cases under trade preference agreements, however what is missing to a large extent is the impact that these increased exports …
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Exploring the sub-national spatial and economic development impacts of the African growth and opportunity act (agoa) in Lesotho
… of the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) in 2000 by the 200th Congress of the United States of America. In this exploratory study, the experience of Lesotho with AGOA, with specific reference to the economic and spatial development outcomes of the Act in the country, is explored. The …
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An analysis of South Africa exports to the United States under the African Growth Opportunity Act
The African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) is a unilateral trade policy concession governing United States - Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) trade and investment relations. AGOA provides United States market access for 40 SSA countries, including South Africa. This piece of legislation has the …
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U.S Presidents in Africa After the Cold War: In Search of a Reason
… like the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) and military initiatives like the United States Africa Command (AFRICOM).</p> <p>In trying to understand the motivations for Bush’s policies in Africa and put it in a broader historical perspective, this work draws on official documents such …
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The places, power, and politics of Uganda’s secondhand clothing industry
… revoke Uganda’s preferential trade rates under AGOA. Underpinning these debates are questions around development, international influence, and national autonomy. Left out of these debates, however, are small-scale, entrepreneurs. Low-income women make up the majority of market vendors who are …
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Customized International Investment Decisions:An Exploration into the Textile and Apparel Decision-making Process
… regulations such as WTO, NAFTA, CBI, ANDEAN and AGOA. For example, several major US textile companies experienced investment failures in Mexico, while taking advantage of the NAFTA regulations. Although failures were experienced when investments were made outside of the home country, it is also …
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Linking entrepreneurial motivation, attitude, behaviour and sustainable supply chain performance measurement in South African manufacturing small and medium enterprises
… Bank and African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA), among others, may form partnerships with developing countries' governments specifically to address SSCM at manufacturing SMEs. For instance, AGOA may extend primary access to United States' (US) markets by adding sustainability support on …