An EU-South African free trade agreement : how will South Africa benefit?

This paper will attempt to answer the over-arching question: Will South Africa benefit from a free trade agreement with the EU? It will not attempt thorough empirical analysis of this question. Instead, it will offer theoretical insight to certain of the policy questions raised about the proposed EU-South Africa FTA. The relevant body of theoretical literature is one which will facilitate an economic assessment of the impact of the proposed EU-South Africa FTA by considering short-term benefits and losses, in addition to longer term dynamic gains, of trading agreements between two countries. Regional integration, appropriately modified, can deliver this body of theory. That is, it does raise the key issues in assessing the necessary costs and benefits of further integration on both trading partners.

Grantor dc:publisher.institution

School of Economics

Year dc:date.issued

1996

Author dc:creator

• Robinson, Shirley Margaret Alice

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Cassim, Rashad

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/11427/16114

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/16114