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  The SADC trade protocol & gender: What are the connections?

  Southern African Research and Documentation Centre, 1999

  Trade policies, have had a profound impact on social, economic and political life in the SADC region. Economic policies of trade liberalisation demand a greater flexibility in shifting resources from one sector to another. They are premised on a commensurate mobility of individuals. There is however, a strategic silence on the impact of trade liberalisation on gender.
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  Financial sector prepares for regional integration, harmonises policies

  Southern African Research and Documentation Centre, 1999

  A special report that looks at southern Africa as it moves closer and closer to a common market. The question of institutional reform is expanding from the usual issues concerning tariff reduction to include the need for harmonisation of payment systems.[author]
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  Strengthening Africa's participation in the global economy

  United Nations University, 1998

  This policy brief is intended to assist African governments in efforts to strengthen their participation in the global economy in ways that bring widespread and sustainable benefits to their peoples. It stems from two issuesthe forces of globalization are perhaps the most important factors that affect the current environment for economic developmentthere are lessons from Southeast A
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  The impact of the Maputo Development Corridor on freight flows: an initial investigation

  Development Policy Research Unit, University of Cape Town (UCT), South Africa, 2000

  This article discusses the Maputo Development Corridor.
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  Macroeconomic policy and trade integration in Southern Africa

  Development Policy Research Unit, University of Cape Town (UCT), South Africa, 2000

  The question underlying this paper is whether the South African Development Community (SADC) free trade area requires convergence.
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  Sources of growth in South Asian economies

  Global Development Network, 2000

  This paper extracts insights from cross-country analysis about the performance of individual South Asian countries and the region as a whole.
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  Import liberalization, industrialisation and technological capacity: a case study of the garment industry in Tanzania

  Economic and Social Research Foundation, Tanzania, 1998

  This article explores policy issues arising from recent policy reforms in Tanzania. These reforms known as the Economic Recovery Program (ERP), were adopted in 1986. The programme's reform package included the liberalization of internal and external trade, liberalization of the foreign exchange market and generally putting in place policies geared at promoting a market oriented economy.
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  The race to the bottom, from the bottom

  Department of Economics [Cornell University], 2000

  The dominant perspective in discussions of labor and environmental standards and globalization is that of North-South competition and its impact on Northern standards. This paper presents an alternative perspective, that of South-South competition to export to the North, and its impact on Southern standards.
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  Review of the impact of globalisation on the agricultural sectors and rural communities of ACP countries

  Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation, 1999

  This paper attempts to review relevant sections of this work from an ACP perspective and to identify and clarify some of the key issues raised. The paper makes a number of suggestions that might assist ACP countries to develop policies to cope with changes in international rules on agricultural trade.
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  Export platforms in Kenya

  Center for International Development, Harvard University, 2000

  In 1987, three export platforms were introduced to promote labour-intensive manufactures: they were Manufacturing under bond (MUB) and Export Processing Zones (EPZ) both targeting new investments, and a duty and VAT exemption scheme (EPPO) targeting existing manufacturers.

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