REGIONAL INDIC ATIVE STRATEGIC DEVELOPMENT PL AN 1 4 1 Glossary Adult literacy rate is the percentage of people aged 15 Chronic diseases means diseases having a long course. and above who can, with understanding, both read and write a short, simple statement on their everyday life. Common market is a form of economic integration in which there is free internal trade, a common tariff, and free Affirmative action refers to programmes designed to movement of labour and capital among partner states. remedy effects of past and continuing discriminatory practices in the recruiting, selecting, developing and Community means the organisation for economic inte- promoting of women or other disadvantaged groups. gration established by Article 2 of the SADC Treaty. Affirmative action programmes seek to create systems and procedures to prevent future discrimination by ensuring an Community based wildlife management means the equality of outcomes, such as quota percentages, management of wildlife by a community or group of timetables, and affirmative action training programmes. communities, which has the right to manage the wildlife and to receive the benefits from that management. Aid refers to flows that qualify as official development assistance (ODA) or official aid. Also known as foreign aid. Comparative advantage. A country has a comparative advantage over another if in producing a commodity it can Aquaculture means all activities aimed at producing in do so at a relatively lower opportunity cost in terms of the restricted areas, processing and marketing aquatic plants forgone alternative commodities that could be produced. and animals from fresh, brackish or salt waters. Conservation means the protection, maintenance, Balance of payments is a summary statement of a rehabilitation, restoration and enhancement of natural nation's financial transactions with the outside world. resources and includes the management of the use of natural resources to ensure the sustainability of such use. Budget deficit or surplus refers to central government current and capital revenue and official grants received, Corridor means a major regional transportation route less total expenditure and lending minus repayments. along which a significant proportion of Member States' or