Badri Narayanan Gopalakrishnan Chandni Dawani & Edmund Nxumalo
This study delves into the profound impact of digital imports on Micro, Small, and Medium-sized Enterprises (MSMEs) in South Africa, particularly highlighting the positive influence of the World Trade Organization’s (WTO) e-commerce moratorium. Utilizing the time-series data on South Africa’s MSME macro indicators such as employment, productivity and size variables and digital product imports from OECD Input-Output tables, our data-driven approach precisely identifies the contribution of digital imports.