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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Southern African Customs Union"”.
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Socioeconomics of tobacco use in the Southern African Customs Union
… for men and women from countries in the Southern African Customs Union, using data from the Demographic and Health Surveys for Namibia, Lesotho and Swaziland; and the National Income Dynamics Study for South Africa. This paper finds that among both men and women, cigarette use is higher …
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The decline of piston manufacturers in the Southern African Customs Union
… only two automotive piston manufacturers in the Southern African Customs Union (SACU). SACU is comprised of the following five member states; South Africa, Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia and Swaziland. Owing to the SACU agreement, these countries have enjoyed fairly good trade flows in goods and …
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Constraints oriented approaches in advancing spatial data infrastructure: case of Southern African Customs Union
… as a catalyst for this study, with the five Southern African Customs Union (SACU) countries forming the scope for the investigations. This study focussed on investigating SACU countries SDIs and the associated sub-region with the aim of fostering on-going improvement. To do that, the …
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Tackling Tax Evasion: Transfer Price Manipulation, Extractive Natural Resources and a Strategy for the Southern African Customs Union
… for combating TPM within the countries of the Southern African Customs Union. It does this by 1) defining the terrain of illicit flows, both generally and specifically to the abuse of transfer pricing through TPM, as well as the nature of corruption in the natural resources sector; 2) exploring …
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A comparative analysis of the protection of women's labour rights in the apparel industries of the Southern African Customs Union member states of South Africa and Lesotho, under the African Growth and Opportunity Act.
The introduction of the African Growth and Opportunity Act agreements between the Government of the United States of America and eligible Sub-Saharan countries has helped to highlight the shortcomings of labour laws in certain African states. These shortcomings are particularly evident in the …
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Harmonization of competition policy in Southern Africa
… WTO) in 1995, and the establishment of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) in 1992 and the Southern African Customs Union of 1969 (SACU), this research examines the approach (both internationally and regionally) towards one of the important disciplines, namely, competition …
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Integrating Lesotho economy into the regional automotive value chain : manufacturing of car-seat covers
… study was to analyse the Automotive Industry in Southern Africa, to assess how best Lesotho can contribute to this supply chain. This analysis was done to better understand the sector, to identify Lesotho's potential to produce car seat covers for South African automotive assembly plants, and …
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TDCA and SADC EPA : facilitation of market growth and integration or decline within SACU? : a critical analysis
Ever since African states gained their respective independences, regional integration has been at the highest realm of their goals. The states have since seen it as a solution to their slow growing economies and as a means of poverty reduction.1 It has been a very slow but enormous progression on …
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Product market price integration in developing countries
… and not in services. The dominance of South African retail chains in the Lesotho retail sector affects price setting behaviour in Lesotho. Product markets are more integrated, between Lesotho and South Africa, in the more tradable sectors. The differentia limpact of local, national and …
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The legality of Botswana's import bans under the SACU agreement of 2002: an analysis of the SACU agreement's trade liberalization framework
The Southern African Customs Union (SACU) is the world's oldest functioning customs union, founded in 1910. A key objective of SACU, evident through its 2002 Agreement (the Agreement), is to facilitate the cross-border movement of goods between the territories of the respective member countries, or …
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An analysis of the interdependence within the bilateral relationship between South Africa and Lesotho
… geopolitical dependence, labour migration, the Southern African Customs Union (SACU) and royalties accrued from the Lesotho Highlands Water Project (LHWP). The exhaustive amount of literature that explores these themes of Lesotho's dependence clearly reflects the dominance of South Africa during …
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Industrialization in a small open mineral-based economy : the case of Botswana
… the ability of industry to compete in the Southern African Customs Union market.
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The role of law in deepening regional integration in Southern Africa - a comparative analysis of SADC and COMESA
… It can be traced back to the creation of the Southern African Customs Union (SACU) in 1917, which was the world's first customs union. Upon gaining independence, states formed the Organization of African Unity (OAU). At that time, Heads of States viewed regional integration as a protectionist …
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La C.E.E : un modele juridique pour une plus grande integration economique en Afrique australe. Volume 1-2
… legal model for greater economic integration in Southern Africa? Part One of the thesis provides a description of the organization of the E.E.C After a brief historical introduction, Section One analyses the Community's main institutions : their composition, their function, and their …
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Dynamics of firm-level export diversification in Botswana
… with manufacturing firm’s exporting out of the Southern African Customs Union (SACU). To assess the relationship, the transaction data are merged with the manufacturing database. Given the high number of zero trade flows for many firms, the Zeroinflated Poisson regression model is used to …
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Investigating product market Integration in the southern African development community : a price-based approach
… and product market integration to the South ern African Development Community (SADC). The analysis draws on a unique integrated dataset of district-level monthly average retail product prices spanning a number of districts in Botswana, Malawi, South Africa and Zambia. The thesis is comprised of …
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An Analysis of Regional Economic and Political Organizations in Southern Africa
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Harmonization of SACU trade policies in the tourism & hospitality service sectors
The general objective of the proposed research is to do a needs analysis for the tourism and hospitality industries of South Africa, Botswana, Namibia, Lesotho and Swaziland. This will be followed by an alignment of these industries with the provisions of the General Agreement of Trade in Services, …