ABSTRACT
Regional policy in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) could influence the supranational and subnational locational decisions of government and industry by offering inducements to investors through tax incentives, grants, subsidies, regional employment premiums, and so on. Therefore, developing and implementing a supranational regional policy could be considered a step towards modernising and restructuring the economic foundation of this peripheral region by encouraging a shift towards a more sustainable and efficient production model, while also ensuring that it remains consistent with the underlying subnational objectives. A threefold regional policy analysis was relevant throughout this book, i.e., (i) analysing policies that currently follow a silo approach in an integrated manner, (ii) the investigation of said policy guidelines through the determination of functional planning instruments in the form of physical infrastructure, and iii) evaluating existing and potential trade and economic interactions among the member states of the SADC.
