1 4 2 S O U T H E R N A F R I C A N D E V E L O P M E N T C O M M U N I T Y non-Member States' regional and international imports secondary and tertiary activities taken to reduce, and to and exports are carried by various transport modes, the deter the use of illicit drugs. development of which is deemed to be a regional priority. Development is the process of improving the quality of all Corruption means any act referred to in Article 3 of the human lives. Important aspects of development are Protocol Against Corruption and includes bribery or any raising people's living levels, creating conditions other behaviour in relation to persons entrusted with conducive to the growth of people's self-esteem and responsibilities in the public or private sectors which increasing people's freedom of choice. violates their duties as public officials, private employees, independent agents or other relationships of that kind Development integration is an approach to regional and aimed at obtaining undue advantage of any kind for integration that combines coordination of programmes/- themselves or others. projects with trade and factor market liberalisation. Council refers to the Council of Ministers of SADC Direct taxes are taxes levied directly on individuals or established by Article 9 of the SADC Treaty. businesses; e.g., income taxes. Culture means, as the totality of a people's way of life, Disability means any restriction or lack of ability to the whole complex of distinctive spiritual, material, intellectual and emotional features that characterise a perform an activity in the manner or within the range considered normal for a human being. society or social group, and includes not only arts and literature, but also modes of life, the fundamental rights of the human being, value systems, traditions and beliefs. Current account balance is the difference between exports of goods and services plus inflows of unrequited official and private transfers, and imports of goods and services plus unrequited transfers to the rest of the world. Included in this figure are all interest payments on external public and publicly guaranteed debt. Customs union is a form of economic integration in which Distance education means a system of learning and teaching that is grounded in the principles of open and resource-based learning and takes place in different contexts at a multiplicity of sites, through a variety of mechanisms and learning and teaching approaches. Dropout rate is the proportion of school-aged children who do not complete a particular school cycle. Drugs means any narcotic drug or psychotropic substance. two or more nations agree to free all internal trade while levying a common external tariff on all non-member Double taxation is the situation in which the same tax countries. base is taxed more than once. Debt burden is the sum of interest payments and Economic co-operation means two or more countries repayments of principal on external public and publicly working together to promote their common economic guaranteed debt expressed as percentage of export of interests through joint projects and programmes, physical goods and services. or otherwise. Deep integration refers to profound and far reaching Economic growth is the steady process by which the regional co-operation and integration in terms of the productive capacity of the economy is increased over time breadth and depth of the areas covered and in the to bring about rising levels of national output and income. mechanisms for reaching and enforcing common decisions. Economic integration is the merging to varying degrees Demand reduction, as used with respect to illicit drugs, of the economies and economic policies of two or more means those measures that encompass all primary, countries in a given region.