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)