Tag: SADC

At present, ongoing Southern African Development Community (SADC) initiatives are underway to construct a comprehensive Industrial Policy Framework for the region. The purpose of t...

During the final week of September 2012, the South African Supreme Court of Appeal handed down a judgment giving effect to aspects of an earlier ruling by the Southern African Deve...

Regional economic integration remains a viable development strategy for Africa, a continent characterised by small economies and markets. Integration of these markets can facilitat...

The Southern African Development Community (SADC) has set itself very ambitious regional integration goals. There is now general agreement that more realistic goals and a better un...

The objective of the inaugural SADC Think Tank Conference on Regional Integration was to provide a platform for dialogue and exchange amongst stakeholders, which would enhance the ...

This Policy Brief starts from the premise that regional economic integration makes sense for Africa; a continent characterised by small markets, small economies and small countries...

A number of important trade-related developments took place in southern Africa in 2011. Developments on the rest of the African continent as well as in the global economy had impor...

The Southern African Development Community (SADC) Secretariat conducted a desk review of the Regional Indicative Strategic Development Plan (RISDP) in 2011. This paper provides a b...

In June 2004, Professor Colin McCarthy presented a paper at a conference, entitled On the euro outside the euro-zone: the South African perspective. The paper addressed the le...

For about the last year and a half a vital aspect of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) legal regime, the ability to enforce the rights and obligations in the legal ...

Empowerment policies may give rise to discrimination when local suppliers are treated more favourably than foreign ones, and can even limit market access opportunities for foreign ...

The COMESA-EAC-SADC Tripartite was created in 2006 to assist in the process of harmonising programmes and policies within and between the three Regional Economic Communities of COM...

The Monitoring Regional Integration Yearbook 2010 marks the tenth edition of this publication. This monitoring exercise, ten years on, is no less relevant than it was at the projec...

 

Successive rounds of multilateral trade negotiations have led to a decrease in the use of tariffs as barriers to trade. However, the reduction in tariffs has been substituted by th...

 

During 2009 several important developments highlighted specific challenges for policy makers in Southern Africa. The global economic crisis continued to impact on the region in 200...

tralac Executive Director, Trudi Hartzenberg, and tralac Associate Professor Gerhard Erasmus were resource persons at a recent TradeCOM-funded training programme for the SADC Legal...

From 13 to 15 September 2010 in Cape Town, South Africa, the European Union (EU) and tralac jointly hosted an information seminar on the EU-SADC (Southern African Development Commu...

In June 2009, four members of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) negotiating group – Botswana, Lesotho, Mozambique and Swazila...