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Title: | Regional Economic Integration Schemes in Southern Africa: Options for Independent Namibia |
Author: | Mwase, Ngila |
Year: | 1991 |
Periodical: | Eastern Africa Economic Review |
Volume: | 7 |
Issue: | 1 |
Pages: | 51-68 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Namibia |
Subjects: | international economic relations Politics and Government Inter-African Relations Economics and Trade |
Abstract: | Independent Namibia is facing heavy trade, technological, financial, market and entrepreneurial dependency on South Africa, and consequently also on the metropoles, arising in part from a limited internal market, little industrialization and low bargaining power. The author explores the theoretical benefits of regional economic integration and looks at the actual and potential benefits for Namibia and the various policy options available, given Namibia's economic structure and factor endowment, particularly in the context of the regional cooperation schemes currently in existence in southern Africa: the Southern African Customs Union (SACU) and its offshoot, the Pretoria-dominated Common Monetary Area (CMA); the SADCC; and the Eastern and Southern African Preferential Trade Area (PTA). Bibliogr., notes, ref. |