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Title:Designing the Framework for a Southern African Development Community
Author:Leistner, ErichISNI
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.
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