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This is a call for papers for a session at the 13th World Congress of the International Economic History Association, Buenos Aires, 22-26 July 2002, on:
The Economic History of Southern Africa: Economic change in the Southern African Development Community (SADC), 1980-2000.
It is requested that all interested economic historians on Southern Africa send proposals for papers in this particular session to the organiser Professor R.W.Vivian, President of the Economic History Society of Southern Africa, at the following address:
Address: Department of Business Economics, University of the Witwatersrand, Private Bag X3, WITS, 2050, South Africa .
email : 100rob@mentor.edcm.wits.ac.za
Telephone : +27 11 717 8088
Fax : +27 11 339 7385
Or to:
Prof. Grietjie Verhoef, Department of Historical Studies, RAU, P.O.Box 524, Auckland Park 2006, South Africa.
email : gv@lw.rau.ac.za
Telephone : +27 11 489 2001
Fax : +27 11 489 2617
BACKGROUND:
Economic History of Southern Africa : Economic change in the Southern African Development Community (SADC), 1980-2000.
The Southern African Development Community is the regional organisation aimed at the strengthening of economic development initiatives in the region. This organisation was established in 1980 by the nine majority rule states in Southern Africa to coordinate development and reduce the dependence of those countries on South Africa. The aim of this organisation was to develop a balanced economic development plan for the region through improved cooperation and mutual self interest. It was established at a time when Africa was severely affected by the weakening competitiveness of African economies in the global environment and the growing debt position of African states. The states that joined SADC were Zambia, Tanzania, Botswana, Zimbabwe and Mozambique.
The session on the history of SADC would reflect on the following issues pertaining to SADC and regional development :
* History of economic development of the member states as the background to the prospects for successful economic integration and development.
* Agricultural development and regional integration : the relationship between south African agriculture and agriculture in the region of Southern Africa.
* The economics of electricity supply and regional integration in historical perspective, with specific reference to the manifestation of electricity as infrastructure in the region.
* Financial markets in the region and the interaction with the South African markets.
* Transport and communications developments in the region as prerequisite for reduced dependence on South Africa.
* Labour mobility and regional integration : the changing structure of the labour markets in the region within the context of SADC.
* International responses to SADC : international trade and capital/investment flows in the context of globalisation.
* The mining industry in Southern Africa : the development of the relationship between mining and industry and the dominant South Africa industrial complex.
* SADC and ECOWAS in comparative perspective.
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