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A SADCC Comparison: Regionalism and Industrial Development

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The Political Economy of the Southern African Periphery

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Having begun with an analysis of secondary industrialisation in South Africa to provide a context for women and textile industrialisation in Swaziland, it is only fitting to conclude with an analysis of the major alternative to South African economic hegemony in the southern African periphery. That alternative is the Southern African Development Coordination Conference (SADCC) founded in 1980. Since its formation, an ideology of regional economic integration has emerged that involves individual economies both detaching from South Africa and linking with each other.1

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Harris, B.J. (1993). A SADCC Comparison: Regionalism and Industrial Development. In: The Political Economy of the Southern African Periphery. International Political Economy Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-22461-6_8

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