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Sep 2026
Trade integration and firm performance: Evidence from South Africa
This study examines the 2013 South Africa–China Strategic Trade Agreement (STA) and its implications on firms using a decade of microdata in South Africa. Exploiting the policy's quasi-exogenous nature, we show that the STA is associated with a reorientation toward Chinese capital goods, increasing firm-level capital-l...
Megan Shongwe, A. Gandy, Aimable Nsabimana et al.
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