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The policy case for a tailor-made indicator of sustainable development for South Africa
Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies, South Africa, 2012South Africa reflects many of the world’s sustainability problems. Gains from the rise in commodity prices and debt-fueled, consumption-led growth have masked issues such as rising costs and declining competitiveness of the economy.DocumentAfrican regional economic communities’ engagement with China
Centre for Chinese Studies, University of Stellenbosch, 2014The development of effective African Regional Economic Communities (RECs) stands to benefit African countries immensely.DocumentChina - Mali relationship: finding mutual benefit between unequal partners
Centre for Chinese Studies, University of Stellenbosch, 2014Since 2000, China-Africa co-operation has seen a rapid increase in scope and size. The West African nation of Mali is one of the 50 African states with diplomatic relations with China; its experience allows for possible parallels with other African states in their engagement with a much more potent partner.DocumentChina-Africa Joint Research and Exchange Programme: Forum on China Africa Co-operation (FOCAC): Drawing lessons for African integration from accelerated development in China
Centre for Chinese Studies, University of Stellenbosch, 2014What lessons can be drawn from the development experience in China to accelerate the African integration agenda?DocumentPromoting peer review as a compliance mechanism for regional integration
South African Institute of International Affairs, 2014Multilateral organisations have long used peer review as a means to encourage compliance with commitments made in the pursuit of various socio-economic goals. Africa established the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) as an indigenous system to monitor the progress of member states in the realm of governance and to provide support for their national development priorities.DocumentChina's engagement in Africa: responding to growing tensions and contradictions
BRICS Policy Center / Centro de Estudos e Pesquisas BRICS, 2013China’s involvement in Africa goes back more than fifty years. However, over the past decade or so its presence on the continent has been growing at a remarkable rate. Since 2000, China-Africa trade has increased twenty-fold, and Chinese direct investment in Africa more than thirty-fold.DocumentSolidarity among brothers? Brazil in Africa: trade, investment and cooperation
BRICS Policy Center / Centro de Estudos e Pesquisas BRICS, 2014South-South cooperation (SSC) emerged as a key Brazilian foreign policy instrument in the beginning of Lula’s presidency in 2003 and has generally been sustained by the government of President Dilma Rousseff. From the beginning, Brazil has emphasized SSC in Africa despite not having articulated an explicit foreign policy towards the region.DocumentUnderstanding South Africa’s role in achieving regional and global development progress
Institute of Development Studies UK, 2014As Africa’s most diversified, developed and (until recently) largest economy, South Africa occupies a unique position in the international development debate. It is an active player in global governance and development fora, maintains an extensive development partnership with its region, and is a member of the BRICS Forum of emerging powers (along with Brazil, Russia, India and China).DocumentChallenging development cooperation? A literature review of the approaches of the emerging powers
Research Institute for Work and Society, KU Leuven, 2013Looking at existing literature, this paper discusses the major ways in which the emerging powers, in this isnstance Brazil, India, China and South Africa (the BICS) are challenging the development cooperation policies and practices of the ‘tradition’ development actors. The author highlights ten ways in which the BICS are are challenging development cooperation: