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Showing 1 to 20 of 102 for “"Southern African Development Community"”.
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Regional integration in the Southern African Development Community (SADC)
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An analysis of maize trade in the Southern African Development Community
… the dominant staple food particularly throughout southern Africa to the extent that maize shortages lead to food security emergencies. These emergencies are compounded by SADC’s limited ability to respond to production and supply shocks. In response to these shocks, SADC countries supplement local …
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Competitiveness of the banking industry in the Southern African development community
… of economic growth and identifies financial development as one of the important drivers of growth. Financial development is viewed as a process through which financial intermediaries such as banks lubricate the economy by creating a conduit for resources to flow from surplus sectors to …
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Gender equality in employment in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region
… in employment is being combated in the Southern African ~ Development Community (SADC) · region. My original intention was to simply examine what measures were being taken in the SADC to attain gender equality at work, and analyse these in light of the various models of equality and …
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Developing a regional competition regulatory framework in the Southern African Development Community (SADC)
This study aims to evaluate the prospective benefits and challenges of developing a regional competition regulatory framework in SADC. Further, the study seeks to identify important lessons from the EU and COMESA that are crucial for the pursuance of a regional competition regulatory framework.
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The Southern African Development Community (SADC) intervention in the Lesotho conflict in 1998
… of 1998 have been written, the intervention by Southern African Development Community does not answer the question if the intervention was carried out in compliance with the SADC Treaty and Protocols on Peace and Security. The effectiveness of a regional organisation in resolving conflicts, …
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The role of the Southern African Development Community Organ on Politics, Defence and Security
The Southern African countries colonial struggles and South African apartheid destabilization policies in the mid-1960s to 1980s compelled Southern African states to establish a Security Organ. This was to assist them to formulate the common defence policy. This Organ became known as the Front Line …
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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 the determinants of the banking crises in the Southern African Development Community (SADC)
This study analysed the determinants of banking crises in the SADC region for the period 1985-2011. The probability of a banking crisis was estimated using a multinomial logit model on real GDP growth level, terms of trade, the ratio of private domestic credit to GDP and the ratio of M2 to foreign …
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Assessing socio-economic inequalities in the use of antenatal care in the Southern African Development community
Introduction Despite the unprecedented efforts of national governments along with various NGOs to achieve the third SDG, which is to reduce global maternal mortality to less than 70 per 100 000 live births by 2030, developing countries seem to be lagging far behind in reaching this goal (UNDP, …
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Regional supremacy or coalition? evaluating South Africa’s regional integration efforts within the Southern African Development Community (SADC)
… same year, it was inaugurated as a member of the Southern African Development Community (SADC), where its membership came with a lot of positive and negative reactions in regard to the role it was to play in southern Africa. This was while other SADC states viewed South Africa (because of its …
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The impact of foreign direct investment on productivity and growth in the Southern African Development Community (SADC)
… investment on productivity and growth in the Southern African Development Community (SADC), which is dealt with in three related studies. The first study undertakes an investigation of the existence and nature of technology and productivity spillovers from foreign direct investment to domestic …
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A security complex in transformation: The case of Southern African Development Community (SADC) as a nascent security community
The key argument of this thesis is that the southern African region is historically a security complex that is undergoing meaningful transformation however, towards a security community. The study harnesses a social constructivist perspective to draw on the works of the Copenhagen School of …
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The impact of public agriculture expenditure on food security and nutrition in the Southern African Development Community (SADC)
… have worsened despite numerous commitments by African governments and their leaders to end hunger and all forms of malnutrition as captured in the Sustainable Development Goals and Africa's Agenda 2063. Africa's 2014 Malabo Declaration on Accelerated Agricultural Growth and Transformation for …
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A viable supranational court born from the experiences of the demise of the Southern African Development Community Tribunal
… land redistribution program and the recent developments surrounding the SADC Tribunal following the redrafting of the Protocol ("the New Protocol") by the Ministers of Justice of each Member State. The disbandment in essence being as a result of the land reform program adopted by the …
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Legal considerations for adopting central bank digital currencies for cross-border payments in the Southern African development community region
… bank digital currency (CBDC) project for the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region. It addresses three central lines of inquiry. The first concerns the necessity of introducing a cross-border CBDC in the region, especially given that SADC already operates the SADC Real Time …
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Opportunities for short-sea shipping in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region: evidence based on discrete choice modelling
The thesis investigates the development of short-sea shipping (SSS) in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region by studying the determinants of SSS, the stated choice preference of shippers and freight forwarders and the stated intentions of maritime carriers for SSS. It is …
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The incorporation of web technologies by university libraries in the Southern African Development Community to implement user-centred services
… to deliver quality services to their user community. The aim of this study was to investigate the incorporation of web technologies into the services of university libraries in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region in order to develop a user-centred model for the …
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Trade facilitation in the Southern African development community: the potential contribution of the world trade organization's trade facilitation agreement
… thesis studies the facilitation of trade in the Southern African Development Community (SADC). It considers the fact that there have been several regional and international agreements that the SADC countries have entered into with the objective of alleviating trade facilitation obstacles in their …
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South Africa In Southern Africa: A Comparative Analysis of Economic Integration In the Southern African Development Community Using Hegemonic Stability Theory
… forces of regional integration fostered by the Southern African Development Community (SADC) after the admission of South Africa to membership in 1994. The extensive political, economic, and social changes that accompanied the end of apartheid created a new regional environment friendlier to …
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