Browsing by Subject "Regional integration"
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An analysis of spatial development paradigm for enhancing regional integration within national and it’s supporting spatial systems in Africa
(North-West University, 2015)The global aim of this research is to postulate a spatial development paradigm for regional integration in developing countries - more specifically, the research prospects to conceptualize form-based spatial planning theory ... -
Assessment of the economic partnership agreement between South Africa and the European Union
(North-West University, 2012)Trade agreements play a big part in international trade and have existed for as long as countries have been trading internationally. Countries often agree to sign a trade agreement with their trading partners because trade ... -
Can decentralisation contribute to promoting rule-of-law structures? The democratic republic of Congo, Rwanda and Burundi as examples
(2012)Decentralisation can enable a country's population to exercise political influence at regional and local level. This presupposes a willingness to assume responsibility. It also presupposes that those in power are willing ... -
Challenges arising from ethnic internal boundary determination in Ethiopia since 1991
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2019)Like any other African country, Ethiopia has different ethnic groups with different languages. The Federal Constitution of Ethiopia guarantees all its ethnic groups including ethnic minority the right to self-determination. ... -
Climate change and Africa : the normative framework of the African Union
(2013)There is enough evidence on how climate change consequences will adversely affect Africa despite the fact that it is the continent that has least contributed to the problem. The international climate change regime ... -
Financial Services and Arrangements to Facilitate the (Ex)Portability of Social Security Benefits in the Southern African Development Community
(PER/PELJ, 2022)This contribution reviews the financial services and arrangements to facilitate the (ex)portability of social security benefits in the Southern African Development Community (the SADC). It commences by providing a general ... -
The idea of Southern Africa in humanities and social science disciplines
(2014)The role of the academy in the manufacture of individual and group identities remains least understood from theoretical and empirical perspectives. The legitimation and consumption of such identity discourses (by both ... -
The paradox of migration and the interest of the atomistic nation-states: the Southern African perspective
(2013)The "paradox of migration and the interests of the atomistic nation-states" interrogates the phenomenon of migration in general and in the Southern African Development Community in particular. The point of departure of ... -
The quest for a supranational entity in West Africa: can the economic community of West African states attain the status?
(2013)To reflect the growing trends in the international scene and in furtherance of the objective of its Revised 1993 Treaty, the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) summit in December 2006 revolutionised the ... -
Regional integration and pacta sunt servanda: reflections on South African trans-border higher education policies
(2016)The underpinning essence of being part of a regional organisation such as the Southern African Development Community (SADC) is to achieve development through integration. Regional integration thus becomes the bedrock from ...