Regional Integration in Southern Africa
Author | : Christopher S. Clapham |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Africa, Southern |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Christopher S. Clapham |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Africa, Southern |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Henry Kyambalesa |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 354 |
Release | : 2016-04-29 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1317146190 |
The debates over what African economic integration and development actually entails continue across international economic organizations, national governments and NGOs. Despite the glare of media attention and the position this issue has on international political agendas, few comprehensive accounts exist that fully examine why this process will be inevitable in the 21st century and how integration of national economies can be attuned to attaining the socio-economic goals and aspirations of member-countries. This book addresses this problem. It combines theory with application, enumerating the imperatives and initiatives governments will be forced to confront; providing insights for educators and students in African development, for policy makers in African governments, and for inter-governmental organizations.
Author | : African Development Bank |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 424 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Africa, Southern |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Bertil Odén |
Publisher | : Nordic Africa Institute |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9789171063328 |
Author | : Margaret Carol Lee |
Publisher | : Juta and Company Ltd |
Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9781588262240 |
In the face of increasing economic globalization, the countries of southern Africa have made commitments to enhanced regional development and the integration of their economies. Margaret Lee examines the challenges to regionalism in southern Africa, providing a critical assessment of the prospects for successful implementation. Lee's detailed study of the processes driving (or inhibiting) regional integration is firmly grounded in the history of the Southern African Development Community (SADC). Her analysis of the evolution of the SADC regional economy, as well as its political, social, and economic contexts, is a major contribution to debates about the merits and pitfalls of regionalism and options for African integration.
Author | : Leon Mwamba Tshimpaka |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 263 |
Release | : 2021-05-07 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9811593884 |
This book examines regional integration in Africa, with a particular focus on the Southern African Development Community (SADC). It argues that the SADC’s pursuit of a rationalist and state-centric form of integration for Southern Africa is limited, as it overlooks the contributory role and efficacy of non-state actors, who are relegated to the periphery. The book demonstrates that civil society networks in Southern Africa constitute well-governed, self-organised entities that function just like formal regional arrangements driven by state actors and technocrats. The book amplifies this point by deploying New Institutionalism and the New Regionalism Approach to examine the role and efficacy of non-state actors in building regions from below. The book develops a unique typology that shows how Southern African regional civil society networks adopt strategies, norms and rules to establish an efficient form of alternative integration in the region. Based on a critical analysis of this self-organised regionalism, the book projects the reality that alternative regionalism driven by non-state actors is possible. This book expands the study of regionalism in the SADC, and makes a significant and innovative contribution to the study of contemporary regionalism.
Author | : Samuel Ojo Oloruntoba |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 335 |
Release | : 2018-07-26 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 3319921800 |
This edited volume discusses the role of innovation and regional integration in economic development in Africa. Over the past five decades, post-colonial African countries have struggled to break loose from the trap of poverty and underdevelopment through the adoption of various development strategies at regional, national, and continental levels. However, the results of both national and regional efforts at advancing development on the continent have been mixed. Although the importance of agglomeration and fusion of institutions have long been recognized as possible path to achieving economic development in Africa, the approach to regionalism has been unduly focused on market integration, while neglecting other dimensions such as social policy, mobility of labor, educational policy, biotechnology, regional legislation, manufacturing, innovation, and science and technology. This volume investigates the link between innovation, regional integration, and development in Africa, arguing that the immediate and long term development of Africa lies not just in the structural transformation of its economies but in the advancement of scientific and innovation capacities. The book is divided into four parts. Part I addresses the theoretical and conceptual underpinnings of innovation and regional integration in Africa. Part II presents case studies which examine how regional economic institutions are fostering innovation in Africa. Part III of the book deals with sectoral issues on innovation and integrated development in Africa. Part IV sets the future research on innovation, regional integration, and development in Africa. Combining theoretical analysis and a comparative, interdisciplinary approach, this volume is appropriate for researchers and students interested in economic development, political economy, African studies, international relations, agricultural science, and geography, as well as policymakers in regional economic communities and the African Union.
Author | : Wolff-Christian Peters |
Publisher | : Peter Lang |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Africa |
ISBN | : 9783631610329 |
The African Union (AU) aims at creating an African Economic Community (AEC) by 2034. Eight recognized Regional Economic Communities (REC) are supposed to form the building blocs of the AEC. The book shows that the Southern African Development Community (SADC) is currently the most advanced and promising REC but still behind schedule in reaching its own integration objectives. If the currently most successful of the African RECs may not achieve sufficiently deep regional integration in time then the chances to establish the AEC by 2034 are slim indeed. Combining economic and political analysis the author examines SADC, its achievements and potential in detail. Special reference is given to the impact of the Zimbabwe crisis on regional integration.
Author | : Sipho Buthelezi |
Publisher | : Ikhwezi Afrika Pub |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Africa |
ISBN | : |
This study outlines the challenges to mutual linkages at a regional level - to social and economic development across the continent. Organised topically and covering all regional groupings in Africa, the study provides a historical overview of integration and common markets of COMESA and ECOWAS, discussion of Africa in the global economy, the question of regionalism in North Africa and the Arab-Maghreb union, the case of the Southern African Development Community, and a survey of the political economy of the Horn of Africa.
Author | : Vusi Gumede |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 206 |
Release | : 2020-06-02 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9004411224 |
This comparative book debates migration and regional integration in the two regional economic blocs, namely the Southern African Development Community (SADC) and the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). The book takes a historical and nuanced citizenship approach to integration by analysing regional integration from the perspective of non-state actors and how they negotiate various structures and institutions in their pursuit for life and livelihood in a contemporary context marked by mobility and economic fragmentation.