Were boycotts, divestment, and sanctions effective against apartheid?
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BDS itself had limited economic effects, according to a study of South African financial markets:
Abstract: We study the most important legislative and shareholder boycott to date, the boycott of South Africa's apartheid regime, and find that corporate involvement with South Africa was so small that the announcement of legislative/shareholder pressure or voluntary corporate divestment from South Africa had little discernible effect either on the valuation of banks and corporations with South African operations or on the South African financial markets. There is weak evidence that institutional shareholdings increased when corporations divested. In sum, despite the publicity of the boycott and the multitude of divesting companies, political pressure had little visible effect on the financial markets.
That might lead us to think that the effects of BDS were largely non-economic. However, let me pull a line out of that abstract:
corporate involvement with South Africa was so small that [shareholder activism] had little discernible effect either on the valuation of banks and corporations with South African operations or on the South African financial markets
BDS couldn't have much of an effect on South Africa because South Africa was already pretty isolated from the world economy. After apartheid, foreign direct investment increased dramatically (though erratically):
The intensity of BDS could still have helped some South Africans to realize that their economic isolation was (in part) due to global perceptions of their social policies, and that ending apartheid would allow them to integrate more fully into the world economy. If so, BDS was strangely more effective as an economic carrot than stick.
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