Malefa Rose Malefane
University of South Africa
12 Papers
12 Citations
Malefa Rose Malefane is an academic researcher from University of South Africa. The author has contributed to research in topics: Openness to experience & Commercial policy. The author has an hindex of 4, co-authored 9 publications.
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Impact of trade openness on economic growth: Empirical evidence from South Africa
TL;DR: This article employed the autoregressive distributed lag bound testing approach to investigate the dynamic impact of trade openness on economic growth in South Africa and found that trade openness has a positive and significant impact on economic development when the ratio of total trade to GDP is used as a proxy, but not when the three other proxies are employed.
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Investigating the Core–Periphery Relationship in the Southern African Customs Union:
TL;DR: In this article, the relevance of the core-periphery relationship in the Southern African Customs Union (SACU), a union comprising five highly unequal economies, is explored.
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The Evolution of Trade Policy in Botswana
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors assess the developments in Botswana's trade sector, starting from the period after its independence in 1966, and show that while Botswana had initially adopted import substitution industrialization as the key strategy for its economy, the country now functions under the export-led strategy.
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Determinants of foreign direct investment in Lesotho : evidence from co-integration and error correction modeling : economics
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provided an empirical analysis of determinants of FDI in Lesotho, including macroeconomic stability, regulatory frameworks, political stability, and market size.
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Does trade openness spur economic growth in Botswana? An empirical investigation
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the dynamic relationship between trade openness and economic growth in Botswana using the Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) bounds testing approach. And the results showed that in both the short run and the long run, trade openness has a significant positive impact on economic growth.
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