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Przestrzeń i granice a regionalozm w Afryce Subsaharyjskiej - afrykańska i europejska percepcja

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Zajączkowski K.
Forum Politologiczne
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2010
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vol. 10 - Przestrzeń i granice we współczesnej Afryce
189-224
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The author of this paper has aimed at featuring regionalisation processes on the African continent in the context of transformations taking place at the threshold of the 21st century throughout the world. Globalisation, virtualisation and trans-national processes have sparked-off national and international transformations and induced state-dominated systems. As a result of the concurrent regionalisation processes and the development of cohesive border regions, the existing state frontiers now serve as bridges rather than barriers. The emergence of a new economic geographic set up has positioned the present national states in between the space marked territorially by borders and that of the world market. The author analyses regionalisation processes in Africa in the African and European perspective as well as from the regional and global viewpoint. He dwells on the circumstantial conditions and premises determining these processes. He also attempts to answer whether the development of effective integration structures in Africa depends solely and exclusively on the inhabitants of this continent alone.
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Ekonomia nieformalna - czynnik wzmacniający czy osłabiający integrację regionalną w Afryce Subsaharyjskiej

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Plonowski M.
Forum Politologiczne
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2010
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vol. 10 - Przestrzeń i granice we współczesnej Afryce
143-188
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It is estimated that the informal sector represents around 43% of the official GDP in Africa - so it is almost the same as the formal sector. The problematic of the informality raises directly very important questions - how to judge the informality, as an example of "social capital" in motion, effectively helping millions to survive or predatory activity, based on policy discrepancies, undermining the possibility of sustainable development. As a last sheet-anchor or poison for the African economies? In the article I will try to answer the question of how the informal cross-border trade can be judged from the point of view of its influence on the official regional integration in Africa - that "spaghetti bowl" continent, full of regional institutions and agreements, where informal cross-border trade can be, according to some estimated, sometimes even more important than the formal regional trade. I will begin with a synthetic presentation of the regional integration problematic and informal economy in general and in Africa in particular. I will try then to come through the pros and the cons of informal cross-border trade in terms of regional integration to the reflections, encouraging to redefinition of the basic concepts of the article - informality and regional integration. Showing that they are not necessarily what the common sense approach would suggest.
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Regional Market Integration in the SADC region: a Comparative Case Study of Botswana and Zambia

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Teixeira E. A.
African Journal of Economics, Politics and Social Studies
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2022
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issue 1
41-55
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Regional market integration is crucial in increasing development for emerging economies. However, research has shown that, in the case of developing countries, the process of market integration faces various obstacles. This study aims to analyse the key determinants of successful market integration for developing countries, as well as to investigate under what conditions some countries may benefit more (or less) than others from market integration, particularly in the SADC region. Based on the existing literature on the main debates and theories on regional market integration of developing countries, this study has used the method of process-tracing to investigate the causal relationship between governance and institutions, market integration and development. The analysis based on this study has found that good and sound policies aimed at increasing domestic capabilities deriving from both public and private governance and institutions is vital in determining relative market integration success. The results indicate that the discrepancies found among SADC Member States hinder the process of regional market integration. On this basis, it is recommended that the linkages between the SADC Member States be strengthened through increased levels of coordination and integration.
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Efekty integracji regionalnej w krajach rozwijających się

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Piekutowska A.
Studia Ekonomiczne
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2014
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vol. 166
88-97
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Integration trends can be observed in all groups of countries, although these may arise due to various reasons. In developing countries, it is primarily the desire to speed up the process of economic development. Integration processes accompanying the elimination of trade barriers was to facilitate the realization of this goal through intensive development of trade. Unfortunately, despite attempts to cross-regional co-operation in developing countries, the creation of free trade areas or common market ended in many cases fail. Determined by both structural factors and political. Hence, regional integration in developing countries has not brought the expected results. Not all countries have benefited equally as other's major mutual trade. At the same time, the most vulnerable are countries in Africa where the barrier to integration is primarily a low level of development. This article aims to analyze the integration processes which previously took place in these countries and the impact of this integration. This article attempts to answer the question of whether regional integration among developing countries has led to the development of their trade?
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