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Key issues in regional growth and integration in Southern AfricaPart of Journal Special Issue Regional Growth Opportunities
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The southern African poultry value chainPart of Journal Special Issue Regional Growth Opportunities
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The causes of high intra-regional road freight rates for food and commodities in Southern AfricaPart of Journal Special Issue Regional Growth Opportunities
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Evaluating the impact of global oil prices on the SADC and the potential for increased trade in biofuels and natural gas within the regionThis paper investigates whether Southern African Development Community countries that are vulnerable to changes in oil prices could instead substitute oil and petroleum products with biofuels and gas from within the region. A pooled mean group...
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Motorcycle parts and aftermarket industry regional value chain in Southern AfricaThis paper provides an overview of the structure, key functions, and characteristics of the motorcycle parts and aftermarket industries in Southern Africa in order to identify challenges to and opportunities for growth in these industries. The...
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Black cat, white catThere is general agreement at present that the Southern African Development Community needs to re-imagine itself and breathe new life into its somewhat moribund structure. The European Union is often presented as the textbook example to be followed...
Research Brief
Tackling poverty and inequality in Southern AfricaComprehensive harmonization is crucial to eliminate inefficiencies that hamper free movement of goods and services in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region. Territorial collaboration between metropolitan clusters and rural areas...
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Agro-processing, value chains, and regional integration in Southern AfricaRegional integration in Africa is underway but ongoing progress requires that the gains are widely spread. South Africa’s huge regional trade surplus in manufactured goods is already leading to protectionist pressures in neighbouring countries. Agro...
Research Brief
How can agro-processing value chains be developed to strengthen regional integration in Southern Africa?Regional integration in Africa has potential for increasing regional trade and contribute towards industrialization and economic development. Agro-processing trade offers numerous opportunities for southern Africa countries and is a potential area of...
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COVID-19 and trade facilitation in Southern AfricaCOVID-19 has created a trade crisis in Southern Africa, with a dramatic slowdown in cross-border trade. The crisis, which exposed weaknesses and deficiencies in the trade facilitation regimes, presents an opportunity for the African Continental Free...
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Barriers to entry and the role of African multinational corporationsEffective competition in the Southern and East African regions requires independent rivals competing across borders and within domestic markets through innovation and effort, investment, product quality, and prices. To understand the constraints to...
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Charity begins at homeIncreased intra-regional trade in southern Africa will have a positive impact on economic growth. However, this requires a shifting of loyalties from the national to the regional. Tension between the goals of long-term regional development and...
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Linking Southern Africa into South Africa’s global value chainsThis study explores the potential for South Africa to become an engine for intra- regional trade and industrial development by linking other Southern African countries to its global value chains and, in the process, improving its global trade...
Research Brief
Strengthening SADC trade in alternative fuelsAnalysis of World Bank data ranging from 1990–2017 indicates that increases in global oil prices would have negative effects on the economic growth of SADC, especially Mozambique, Tanzania, Zambia, and Mauritius. Given the high reliance of Southern...
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Competition and inclusive regional economic growth in food productionThe growth of African multinational companies in Southern and East Africa in recent decades brings with it a great opportunity for development of productive capacity in the region and greater regional integration. This study identifies three emerging...
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Fast tracking the SADC integration agenda to unlock regional collaboration gains along growth corridors in Southern AfricaDespite more than two decades of economic integration efforts, levels of spatial development inequality remain high within the Southern African Development Community (SADC). Owing to persistent delays in the implementation of the SADC integration...
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