| Defence Offsets: Policy
vs. Pragmatism Abstract |
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Ron Matthews |
| Defence offsets have
grown in importance over the last 20 years. Increasingly, however, there
is a sense amongst informed observers that offset policy requirements have
outstripped the ability of industry to deliver. Over and above the perceived
difficulties faced by industry in achieving 'inflationary' offset targets,
a view is evolving that offsets do not represent the panacea that proponents
of offsets would have us believe for the ills of slothful development, diversification
and indigenous technological progress Against the ambitious offset policy
framework linked to the South African weapons procurement programme, the
purpose of this presentation is to screen contemporary offset practises
to reach an informed judgement as to the viability of current offset policy
initiatives.
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