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Title: | Designing the Framework for a Southern African Development Community |
Author: | Leistner, Erich |
Year: | 1992 |
Periodical: | Africa Insight |
Volume: | 22 |
Issue: | 1 |
Pages: | 4-13 |
Language: | English |
Geographic terms: | Southern Africa South Africa |
Subjects: | future international economic relations Development and Technology Economics and Trade Inter-African Relations |
Abstract: | Once South Africa's relations with the rest of the world are normalized, it will probably be invited to join the SADCC. Despite its daunting problems, the South African economy has the potential to stimulate economic progress in southern Africa. At the same time, however, the vast 'economic distance' between South Africa and its neighbours makes it imperative that the pattern of future interaction be considered with the utmost care. The author argues that the interests of South Africa, no less than of the region as a whole, would be served best if South Africa would not join the SADCC as presently constituted. The type of regional organization that southern Africa needs at the present point in time, is a pragmatic, noninterventionist and open-ended organization (such as the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)) that will allow the countries of the region to proceed from economic cooperation to integration whenever this may be desired as well as feasible. Notes, ref. |