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Economic Development
Economic Development Budget: Committee Report
8 May 2018
The Committee considered its Report on Budget Vote 25: Economic Development Department. No substantive changes were made to the Report. Grammatical and minor technical changes were made to the Report where necessary. The Committee did agree to include in the Report if it was not already covered in existing recommendations, ...
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Economic Development Department (continued) & ITAC Annual Performance Plan; with Minister
24 Apr 2018
The Portfolio Committee on Economic Development was briefed by the International Trade Administration Commission (ITAC) and the Department of Economic Development (EDD) on their Annual Performance Plans (APPs) for the 2018/19 financial year, in the presence of the Minister. ITAC presented its APP to the Committee wherein clarity was provided ...
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Competition Commission & Competition Tribunal & IDC 2018/19 Annual Performance Plan
17 Apr 2018
The Industrial Development Corporation, the Competition Commission and the Competition Tribunal presented their Annual Performance Plans for the 2018/19 financial year.
The Industrial Development Corporation had developed many focus areas for the period 2018/19 to 2022/23. Those included increasing industrial development, maintaining the corporation’s financial sustainability, capitalising on the Rest ...
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Department Economic Development & ITAC 2018/19 Annual Performance Plan; with Minister
27 Mar 2018
The Minister of Economic Development outlined the mandate of the Department, which was to align the plans of all the national departments to the National Development Plan and National Growth Path to ensure that the country experienced growth in both the economy and the number of jobs created. He described ...
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Economic Development Department Annual Performance Plan: DPME input
20 Mar 2018
The Department of Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation (DPME) appeared before the Committee to give a briefing on the progress being made by the Economic Development Department (EDD) and its entities with its strategic plans for the period 2015 to 2020, and the annual performance plans.
The Department monitored and assisted ...
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Economic Development Department on Quarter 3 performance; with Minister and Deputy Minister
14 Mar 2018
The Minister of Economic Development provided the Committee with an overview of the economy from the Department’s perspective, before providing details of its performance during the third quarter of the current financial year.
The gross domestic product (GDP) in the quarter had shown an increase of 3.1% compared to the ...
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Impact of industrial strategy on SMME development: Industrial Development Corporation briefing
13 Mar 2018
The Industrial Development Corporation briefed the Portfolio Committee on Economic Development on the impact of its programmes on the Small Medium and Micro and Enterprises, while the Committee, on the other hand, is to assess if the policies in place are directed to where they are needed most.
The entity ...
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Competition Act: workshop with Competition Commission
13 Feb 2018
With a Competition Amendment Bill on the cards for Parliament, the Committee Researcher gave a background to the Competition Act. Competition legislation originated in the US and Canada in the 1890s to limit the political and market power of trusts. Trusts and cartels increased prices and forced small businesses out ...
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Economic Development Department on Quarter 1 performance, with Minister and Deputy
5 Sep 2017
The Economic Development Department (EDD) presented its reports for the fourth quarter of 2016/17 and the first quarter of 2017/18. However, as the fourth quarter report had not yet been audited, the Minister focused on only some of the key areas, and then dealt with the first quarter in great ...
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Committee minutes
27 Jun 2017
The Portfolio Committee considered and adopted eight sets of minutes. Members voiced concerns about one of the minutes pointing out grammatical and spelling mistakes, and inaccuracies. The Committee minutes 3 May 2017 was accordingly withdrawn.