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This handbook provides basic information on the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), its organization and the various co-operation activities associated with it. The emphasis here is on economic co-operation. Although such information is available in many forms, it is mostly scattered in official documents and various literature on ASEAN. There is, thus, a need to provide the basic information in a handy volume, and this handbook fills that need

The essay examines the economic co-operation between Ghana and all Arab countries in the decade 1975-1984. Aid, trade and investment are the three broad areas of co-operation considered, although technical assistance is also briefly discussed. The co-operation is still at a very low level. (DÜI-Ott)

A RJE conference paper on economic co-operation in Southern Africa despite the then existing political and ideological differences and hostilities within Southern African governments in the late 1960's. Paper presented at the Symposium For Industry in Rhodesia, 11-12th June, 1969. ; The purpose of this paper is no more than to put forward some basic concepts which, to my mind, would have to underlie the economic policies of the various states on the sub-continent of Southern Africa if we all wish to obtain the greatest possible economic benefit from our respective resources without having to sacrifice our respective socio-political ideals as independent national communities. South of the sixth parallel, i.e. including Angola, Zambia, Malawi and Mocambique, one finds a total population of close to 50 million people, producing an output of perhaps £5,000 million. I mention these aggregates merely to establish a very rough impression of the demographic and economic orders of magnitude involved. The figures have very little further significance and could in fact lead to serious misconceptions. Thus the conclusion that the income per head of the population in the sub-continent amounts to £100 is obviously meaningless, because the income base and the population base of this ratio is functionally very tenuously related to each other. The incomes actually received by the set of people living, say around Lake Bangweulu, in Zambia, are at present not even remotely influenced by the productive capacity of the community living say in Paarl, South Africa.

This article explores the prospects for co-ordinated co-operative economic advance in East Africa. Its frame of reference reaches wider than simply an analysis of the 1967 Treaty.1 This broader viewpoint is important for two major reasons. In the first place, there are a number of aspects of economic interdependence which are not covered at all in the Treaty; the implication is that these will be of no direct concern to the institutions of the new East African Community (Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania). For example, the level of the external tariffs of the three countries is obviously crucial to the operation of the Common Market; among other reasons, this is because the maximum permissible transfer tax is defined in terms of the external tariff. Yet the committee responsible for setting external tariffs is not linked in any direct way with the institutional set-up in Arusha; it seems likely that decisions of the tariff committee will not be subject to discussion or appeal through these community institutions.