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South Africa and Globalisation

South Africa
  • Capital: Pretoria
  • Population: 49000000
  • Size: 1219912.0 Km2

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How Africa can get more from relations with China
Jing Gu; John Humphrey / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
China’s emergence is having a big impact on Africa. But the relationship presents challenges as well as opportunities. How can Africa influence Chinese policy in order to benefit more from its relations with this important partne...
Food industry restructuring at the national level: evidence from eight country case studies
T. Reardon; J. Huang / Sustainable Markets Group, IIED, 2008
Rapid changes are taking place in the structure and governance of national and regional agrifood markets in developing countries, affecting the agricultural sector's ability to contribute to economic growth, poverty reduction and sust...
Are South African media statutory bodies fulfilling their mandates?
K. Skinner (ed) / Open Society Foundation for South Africa, 2007
This paper presents a series of evaluations to analyse and assess the degree to which media statutory bodies in South Africa are fulfilling their mandates, to assess their contribution to media diversity and enhancing access to media ...
Political, economic and social trends in modern day South Africa
S. Buhlungu (ed); J. Daniel (ed); R. Southall (ed); J. Lutchman (ed) / Human Sciences Research Council, South Africa, 2007
Assembling academics, journalists, researchers and analysts, the State of the Nation: South Africa 2007 volume offers 23 diverse angles on contemporary South Africa in one comprehensive publication. The politics section foc...
Placing South Africa's agricultural trade with China in perspective
R. Sandrey; T. Fundira / Trade Law Centre for Southern Africa, 2008
A feature of world trade over the last ten years has been the dramatic growth of China's trade with the world.  This paper examines the agricultural component of Chinese trade with South Africa, which it aims to place in broader ...
The pitfalls and benefits of regional migration in Southern Africa
R. Leslie / Centre for Development and Enterprise, South Africa, 2008
According to the International Organisation for Migration (IOM), by July 2007 the number of Zimbabweans deported from South Africa to their home country had reached 17 000 each month. Cross-border movements on this scale inevitably fe...
How are conservation policies shaped by neoliberalism?: a collection of critical essays
J. Igoe (ed); D. Brockington (ed) / Conservation and Society, 2008
The growing body of work on the 'neoliberalisation of nature' has paid little attention to conservation policy and its impacts. Similarly, studies of conservation have generally overlooked the broader context of neoliberalism. This la...
Evaluating the seven African success stories
R.I. Rotberg / John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2007
This paper evaluates the seven presumed African success stories: Botswana, South Africa, Zambia, Ghana, Tanzania, Mozambique and Uganda. It gives a detailed analysis of the economic, political, governance and human development scenari...
Inflation targeting has helped stabilise the South African economy
Janine Aron; John Muellbauer / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
There have been important gains in the conduct and performance of monetary policy in South Africa over the last decade. Inflation targeting, introduced in 2000, and supported by fiscal restraint, has contributed to the much improved m...
Is the Ethical Trading Initiative improving labour standards?
Stephanie Barrientos; Sally Smith / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
The Ethical Trading Initiative (ETI) is an alliance of companies, trade union and non-government organisations committed to improving working conditions in global supply chains. ETI members commit to require their suppliers to comply ...
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