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Payment
Systems in the Southern African Development Community prepared by the SADC Committee of Central
Bank Governors and the Committee on Payment and Settlement Systems of the
Central Banks of the Group of Ten Countries (G-10). Available from the Bank
for International Settlements Information, Press and Library Services,
CH-4002 Basel, Switzerland.
How payment systems in different countries work is a
fairly intricate subject to many including those who work in the banking
industry. Generally defined as a system that facilitates the process of making
payments, consisting of instruments, banking procedures and interbank
transfer systems that enable the circulation of money, payment systems
affect all players in any economy one way or the other.
The book, Payments Systems in the Southern African Development
Community, is an attempt to increase the understanding of the way payment
systems work in 12 of the 14 SADC countries.
1999 SADC Summit Communique
-SADC.-1999.
Available from SADC Secretariat, P Bag 0095, Gaborone,
Botswana
Africa Works: Disorder as Political Instrument;
African Issues
-Chabal, Patrick and Daloz, Jean-Pascal.- 1999
Available from James Currey Ltd., 73 Botley Rd, Oxford
OX2 OBS
Amnesty International Report 1999
-Amnesty International.- 1999
Available from Amnesty International Publications, 1
Easton street, London WC1X 8DJ, United Kingdom
The Crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo
-Baregu, Mwesiga (ed).- 1999
Available from SAPES Books, Box MP111 Mount Pleasant,
Harare, Zimbabwe
Directory of Non-governmental Organisations in
Seychelles
-Liason Unit of Non-Governmental Organisations of
Seychelles (LUNGOS).- 1999
Available from PO Box 885, Victoria, Mahe, Seychelles
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(Not included are the Democratic Republic of Congo and
Seychelles, which joined SADC in 1997 after the project
had started).
Recognising
the need for an efficient and secure financial infrastructure, the SADC
countries have set themselves the ambitious task of modernising their
existing payment and settlement systems. To speed the process, says the
book, they have chosen to adopt a cooperative, regional approach.
The SADC
Committee of Central Bank Governors, co-publishers of the book, says the
publication is part of its broad strategy based on the premise that a sound
financial basis must first be laid within each of the participating
countries before it can be extended to the region as a whole.
"The
main objective is therefore to learn from each other and to help each other
to create appropriate structures for the central bank, the private banking
sector and the financial markets in each of the members of SADC.
Global
Environment Outlook 2000: UNEP's Millennium Report on the Environment
-United Nations
Environment Programme (UNEP).-1999
Available
form SARDC IMERCSA
Landmine
Monitor Report 1999: Toward a Mine-Free World
-International
Campaign to Ban Landmines.- 1999
Available
from Human Rights Watch, 350 Fifth Avenue, 34th floor, New York, NY10118-3299,
USA
The Life
and Times of Thabo Mbeki
-Hadland,
Adrian and Rantao Jovial.- 1999
Available
from PO Box 5563, Rivonia, 2128, South Africa
New
African Year Book 1999/2000
-Rake, Alan.-
1999
Available from
IC Publications Ltd., 7 Coldbath Square London ECIR 4LQ, United Kingdom
Regionalisation
in Africa's Integration and Disintegration
-Bach, Daniel
C..- 1999
Available
from James Currey Ltd.
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"The
domestic financial sector reforms introduced in each country must, however,
even at this early stage, take
cognisance of
the development needs of the region and the longer term objective of a more
coordinated and regional financial sector," recommends the book.
The publication is seen as a joint effort, involving all
SADC central banks, to lay the foundation for the development of a
compatible and inter-linkable national payment, clearing and settlement
systems for financial transactions.
Having successfully completed the first stage of the
project - analysing the state of domestic payment systems - the publishers
hope to do a second edition that will look more closely at
cross-border settlements. Regular updates of the payment
systems in SADC will also appear in future editions of this series dubbed the
"Green Book", according to the publishers.
Reporting Gender in Southern Africa: a Media Guide
-Lopi, B (compiler).- 1999
Available from SARDC,
or Zambia Institute of Mass Communication Education Trust, PO Box
50386, Lusaka, Zambia
SADC Fifth Parliamentary Intra-Regional Workshop on
Human Resources [Collected Papers], Zimbabwe, Harare, 1-3 September,1999
-.- 1999
Available from Parliament of Zimbabwe, Box CY 298,
Causeway, Harare
Urban Safety, Safety for all: Report of the International
Conference for Crime and Prevention Partnerships to Build Community Safety
-Meek, Sarah (ed.).- 1999
Available from Institute for Security Studies, PO Box
1787, Brooklyn Square 0075, Pretoria, South Africa
Zimbabwe's Public Eye: Political Essays (October 1997 - October
1998)
-Sithole, Masipula.- 1999
Available from Rujeko Publishers (Pvt) Ltd.
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