DAY ONE: 28 JULY 2020 OPENING SESSION 10:00 – 10:15
Welcome
Saul Levin (TIPS)
10:15- 11:15
Key note address
Prof Arkebe Oqubay Moderator: Prof Fiona Tregenna (SARChI, UJ)
11:30-12:45
SESSION 1: TRADE AND REFORM IN AFRICA Africa’s trade in services: Trade potentials, negotiations and challenges in the context of the African Continental Free Trade Area Agreement
Nicolette Cattaneo
Building Malls or Metros? South Africa’s Exports of Tradable Urban Services to the Rest of Africa
Prof Ivan Turok
Regional value chains and industrialisation in Southern Africa
Dr Neva Makgetla Moderator: Dr Zhuqing Mao (SARChI, UJ)
DAY TWO: TWO: 29 JULY 2020
10:00-11:15
SESSION 2: INCLUSIVE INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT Embedding protection of vulnerable consumers in regional industrial development policies and initiatives in SADC
Nedson Pophiwa
The nexus between industrial policies and small business development in Botswana
Kolawole I. Oladeji
The promotion of SADC’s Economic Transformation and Industrialisation within a developmental regionalism paradigm
Dr Gabila Nubong Moderator: Zukiswa Kimani (the dtic)
11:30– 12:45
SESSION 3: STRENGTHENING AND BUILDING REGIONAL VALUE CHAINS Assessment of Demand in Agro - Processing Machinery in the SADC region and a Case Study of the Maize Milling Machinery Value Chain in South Africa and Zambia
Gillian Chigumira
The dried grape processing industry in Northern Cape, South Africa: Are there opportunities for market growth internationally?
Cabanga Moyo
Medium- and High-technology Manufacturing, Economic Growth and CO2 Emissions in Developing Economies
Elvis Avenyo Moderator: Themba Khumalo (the dtic)
DAY THREE: THREE: 4 AUGUST 2020
10:00-11:15
SESSION 4: SUSTAINABLE REGIONAL INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT Carbon Dioxide Emissions, Energy Consumption and Industrial Transformation in Southern African Development Community
Mamadou Bah
Prospects for a regional value chain in the wind energy sector: The role of South Africa’s industrial policy.
Glen Robbins
Strategy formulation and implementation in Africa: The case of the Leather value chain in selected COMESA, EAC, and SADC countries
Ronett Atukunda Moderator: Khodani Mulaudzi (WWF)
11:30-12:45
SESSION 5: LOW-CARBON AND INCLUSIVE INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT The Atlantis Green Tech SEZ: Lessons and experiments for resilient, low carbon, socially inclusive industrialisation
Matthew Cullinan
High Technology Exports as a Pathway to Industrial Development & Growth: Evidence from SADC countries
Rexford K. Asiama
Regional Integration, the gateway and an inclusive framework for the economic development and growth of the African Continent
Mokom Marcel Young
Moderator: Gaylor Montmasson-Clair (TIPS)
DAY FOUR : 5 AUGUST 2020
10:00– 11:15
SESSION 6: FINANCING INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT, THEORY, POLICY AND PRACTICE Roadmap for Implementation of the SADC Protocol on Finance and Investment (FIP) to Facilitate Regional Industrial Development
Rodney Dan-Ao !Hoaeb
The role of foreign direct investment in accelerating regional industrial development in Sub-Saharan African (SSA) Countries
Bertha Chipo Bangara
The role of Development Finance Institutions in facilitating regional economic integration: A gravity model analysis of SADC
Thabiso Poswa
Domestic Industry Protection. Lessons from a Multiple Currency and a Cash Budget Economic System Zimbabwe (1996-2014)
Everisto Mugocha Moderator: Garth Strachan (TIPS)