New Economic Partnership for Africa`s Development (NEPAD) and Africa`s quest for regional economic integration. The case of Southern African Development Community (SADC).

dc.contributor.authorChigombe, Courage
dc.date.accessioned2016-09-15T07:55:22Z
dc.date.available2016-09-15T07:55:22Z
dc.date.issued2014
dc.description.abstractDespite according high priority to regional economic integration and being clustered by regional economic schemes, Africa’s regional economic integration record is not inspiring. With the transformation of the OAU to the African Union (AU), the New Partnership for Africa`s Development (NEPAD) was adopted as the development program of the continent to drive the impetus of economic integration through trade. At the time NEPAD was adopted, regional integration schemes in Africa were facing problems of low intra-regional trade levels despite trade being identified as the engine of activity and economic growth for regional economic integration. The study was centered on Southern Africa with precise attention on SADC. Even though trade is accepted as a vital engine of economic growth and development, this is not the case with SADC. The study was looking at the contribution of NEPAD in intra-regional trade in Africa with special focus on SADC. This was prompted by the fact that regional integration is business as usual within the sub region while problems that have been confronting regional schemes are continuing unabated after the adoption of NEPAD. The study used the historical approach because it provides the study with an advantage of accessing existing literature with regards to what is really stalling intra-regional trade in SADC. The study findings noted that NEPAD has not fully addressed the problems of intra-regional trade within SADC and the continent at large. The study lastly concludes by giving a way forward for NEPAD to respond to the specific needs of SADC for the promotion of intra-regional and equitable trade.en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11837/484
dc.language.isoenen_ZA
dc.publisherUniversity of Fort Hareen_ZA
dc.titleNew Economic Partnership for Africa`s Development (NEPAD) and Africa`s quest for regional economic integration. The case of Southern African Development Community (SADC).en_ZA
dc.typeThesisen_ZA

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