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The Textile and Clothing Sector in Botswana: Challenges and Opportunities

Botswana Journal of Economics

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Title The Textile and Clothing Sector in Botswana: Challenges and Opportunities
 
Creator Motswapong, M
Grynberg, R
 
Subject Textile and Clothing, Preferential Trade Regimes, AGOA, Botswana, SACU, SADC.
 
Description This paper considers the performance of the Textile and Clothing (TC) sector in Botswana and reviews various national and international incentive schemes aimed at developing TC exports. The analysis shows that  domestic policies and preferential trade regimes helped establish the sector and still play a central role in its continued operation. However, the sector has failed to take advantage of existing trade preferences and thus the situation worsened, between 2008 and 2010 due to the global economic crisis and phasing out of export incentive schemes, respectively. It is therefore fundamental that appropriate policies and interventions are put in place to secure the sector’s growth, development and  competitiveness. Once government has determined that the sector is commercially viable in the long term, the short term measures that have been put in place between 2010-11 need to be replaced with measures that address the long term profitability of the sector.Keywords: Textile and Clothing, Preferential Trade Regimes, AGOA, Botswana, SACU, SADC.
 
Publisher The Botswana Economics Association
 
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Date 2014-11-19
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Peer-reviewed Article
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier https://www.ajol.info/index.php/boje/article/view/109936
 
Source Botswana Journal of Economics; Vol 12, No 1 (2014); 11-26
1810-0163
1810-0163
 
Language eng
 
Relation https://www.ajol.info/index.php/boje/article/view/109936/99670
 
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