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GRAHAM A. DAVIS is Assistant Professor in the Mineral Economics Department at the Colorado School of Mines. Dr. Davis has lived and taught in South Africa.

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Since 1925, import substitution programs have diverted South Africa's mineral revenues away from efficient investments and into the creation of an uncompetitive manufacturing sector. Protection has recently been augmented by a General Export Incentive Scheme that was designed to increase manufacturing exports. A multisector general equilibrium analysis shows the export scheme is highly complex with unusual and undesirable structural effects, seeming little more than a continuation of social engineering of the past. This work provides a definitive analysis of past and present South African trade policy, using a methodology of interest to other trade and development researchers operating in similarly spare informational environments.

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Acknowledgments
List of Illustrations
Introduction
A Brief Review of the Trade Policy Debate
The History of Managed Trade in South Africa
A New Trade Policy: Out of the Pan and into the Fire
The General Export Incentive Scheme
The Regional Effects of the GEIS
Delimiting the Theory of Comparative Advantage: South Africa's Heckscher-Ohlin Goods
A Search for Unexploited Comparative Advantage in South African H-O Manufactures
The Empty Economics in South Africa's Industrial Policy
Summary and Conclusions
Appendix A: The General Export Incentive Scheme (GEIS)
Works Cited
Index