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The role of the new partnership for Africa’s development (NEPAD) in the creation of sustainable public and private technical infrastructure for trade facilitation
Thesis (PhD)--University of Pretoria, 2010.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/28195 The role of the new partnership for Africa’s development (NEPAD) in the creation of sustainable public and private technical infrastructure for trade facilitation Kuye, Jerry O. peetfamily@netcologne.de Peet, Michael Andrew Technical infrastructure Trade facilitation Nepad Technical barriers to trade UCTD Thesis (PhD)--University of Pretoria, 2010. Greater access to international markets is universally accepted as the solution for many of Africa’s problems. Such increased access would theoretically allow African countries the opportunity to develop strong economies. Sustainable growth through trade would then replace the current common dependence on aid and enable African citizens to enjoy a fuller share of the myriad benefits of globalisation. The gradual global reduction in historic methods to protect markets aspects, such as tariffs, is bringing technical requirements to the fore. These requirements often become Technical Barriers to Trade (TBTs) between Africa and its trading partners. Simultaneously, there are continuous global demands for greater access to African markets. Such demands occur even as ever more stringent technical requirements for granting reciprocal access in developed markets are set. Such technical access requirements are insidiously becoming an increasingly important part of the African trading landscape. African governments increasingly need therefore to ensure that domestic industry and agriculture have appropriate and affordable access to appropriate technical support infrastructure. The current African approaches to such generally unexpected technical challenges from elsewhere, are mostly reactive donor–driven projects managed as crises. In order to address such issues proactively, a vital first step is the formulation of a mutually supportive set of national, or preferably regional, polices and associated strategies to synergistically address African issues of trade, industrialisation, agriculture and the environment. The prevalent silo approach that exists both within and among African countries in these increasingly interlinking areas unfortunately simply exacerbates an already desperate situation. The predominant focus of NEPAD presently revolves around demonstrating appropriate governance. Rather than continuing to be victims of globalisation, African states working cooperatively through NEPAD have an opportunity to redress their past difficulties. In the area of African Standards, Quality assurance, Accreditation and Metrology (SQAM) capacitation, NEPAD has an important leadership role to play. It could provide a foundation through which solutions in SQAM be cooperatively sought and addressed. Aspects relating to proving compliance to the aforementioned agricultural, industrial and environmental policies need immediate attention. An African, public administration led approach to building SQAM technical capacity would then be possible. Complying with the various and technically challenging regulatory requirements of foreign markets cannot continue be the sole thrust of Africa’s trade facilitation efforts. Implementing foreign technical solutions that make sense in a limited and different context will not deliver large scale benefits for Africa. NEPAD fostered partnerships based on mutually beneficial and optimal solutions are preferable. Such a proposed role for NEPAD includes the creation of sound theoretical public administration underpinning and successful operational facilitation for African public administrators working in concert on mutually beneficial technical SQAM support strategies. School of Public Management and Administration (SPMA) Unrestricted 2013-09-07T13:01:32Z 2010-09-25 2013-09-07T13:01:32Z 2010-09-01 2010-09-25 2010-09-25 Thesis Peet, MA 2009, The role of the new partnership for Africa’s development (NEPAD) in the creation of sustainable public and private technical infrastructure for trade facilitation, PhD thesis, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd < http://hdl.handle.net/2263/28195 > D10/590/ag http://hdl.handle.net/2263/28195 http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-09252010-160354/ © 2009 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | Technical infrastructure Trade facilitation Nepad Technical barriers to trade UCTD The role of the new partnership for Africa’s development (NEPAD) in the creation of sustainable public and private technical infrastructure for trade facilitation |
| title | The role of the new partnership for Africa’s development (NEPAD) in the creation of sustainable public and private technical infrastructure for trade facilitation |
| title_full | The role of the new partnership for Africa’s development (NEPAD) in the creation of sustainable public and private technical infrastructure for trade facilitation |
| title_fullStr | The role of the new partnership for Africa’s development (NEPAD) in the creation of sustainable public and private technical infrastructure for trade facilitation |
| title_full_unstemmed | The role of the new partnership for Africa’s development (NEPAD) in the creation of sustainable public and private technical infrastructure for trade facilitation |
| title_short | The role of the new partnership for Africa’s development (NEPAD) in the creation of sustainable public and private technical infrastructure for trade facilitation |
| title_sort | role of the new partnership for africa s development nepad in the creation of sustainable public and private technical infrastructure for trade facilitation |
| topic | Technical infrastructure Trade facilitation Nepad Technical barriers to trade UCTD |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/28195 http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-09252010-160354/ |