University of Cambridge

Global Security Fellows Initiative
Occasional Paper No. 8

Regional Economic Development: The Case of Southern Africa

by
Logan Rangasamy


ABSTRACT

Regional arrangements are transforming international trading relations through the formation of trading blocs amd the proliferation of free trade agreements. These include the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), the expansion of the European Union, Latin American integration efforts and moves by the members of the ASEAN coiuntries to create a regional free trade zone. The Southern Africa Development Community views economic integration of its region as a natural response to these (and other) economic developments in the international scene. This paper examines the view that regional economic integration will serve as a building block towards an African Economic Community.

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Dr. Kuzniarz holds the Ph.D. in biology. She is a principal co-founder and organizer of an independent environmental school, Zespol Szkol Spolecznych No. 1, in Wroclaw, Poland, and an active member of the Polish Ecological Club. Her commitment to environmental education has made her an expert in this field among the international movement of teachers of the environment. She works closely and cooperates with IUCN, the Technical Education Research Centers (TERC) in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, the Science Across Europe Project, the Association for Science Education and the International Centre for Conservation Education, UK.