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    BRICS: a global trade power in a multi-polar world

    Transnational Institute, 2014
    Central to the narrative of emerging powers, and particularly the BRICS, is the issue of trade, as both the driver of their economic surge, the factor behind their growing economies and the platform it has given them to assert influence in global governance.
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    SAARC: the way ahead

    Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi, 2015
    The South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC)—comprising India, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Sri Lanka, Maldives, Nepal, Afghanistan and Pakistan—has been in existence as a regional grouping for almost 30 years (with Afghanistan joining in 2007). It has yet, however, to succeed in bringing about closer integration between the member countries.
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    Policy framework for Foreign Direct Investment promotion in South Africa: operations, effectiveness and Sustainability

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2015
    Foreign direct investment promotion in South Africa has expanded considerably in the two decades from 1995 to 2015. The investment promotion system is quite decentralised, with much of the work being carried out by provincial governments, albeit with support from Trade and Investment South Africa (TISA), a division of the Department of Trade and Industry.
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    Deepening India’s engagement with Africa through better market access

    Knowledge Partnership Programme, 2015
    In order to provide ‘trade’ stimulus to Least Developed Countries (LDCs), India launched a Duty-Free Tariff Preferences (DFTP) scheme in 2008. DFTP scheme provides duty free treatment to about 98 per cent of tariff lines and 48 LDCs are beneficiary of this scheme. Preliminary evidence indicates the effect of the scheme has been limited and varies from country to country.
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    Korea and South Africa: building a strategic partnership

    Institute for Global Dialogue, South Africa, 2009
    In an era of global financial crisis and shrinking economies, it has become more urgent and more important for South Africa’s foreign policy to focus on international engagements that produce clearly defined commercial advantage in the national interest.
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    Increased Chinese engagement in South Africa’s economy – strategies, opportunities and future implications

    Centre for Chinese Studies, University of Stellenbosch, 2015
    China and South Africa’s relationship has deepened in recent years. Extensive political structures, such as South Africa’s Comprehensive Strategic Partnership agreement with China, provide opportunities for bettering local development.
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    SAIS China Africa Research Initiative

    The China Africa Research Initiative (CARI) is based at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies.
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    India-Japan economic partnership agreement: gains and future prospects

    Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi, 2014
    Economic relations between India and Japan have improved in recent years. The signing in February 2011 of the India-Japan Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) Ehas further enhanced bilateral trade and investment relations between the two Asian giants.
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    Crouching tiger, hidden dragon? China and Africa: engaging the world's next superpower

    Centre for Conflict Resolution, University of Cape Town (UCT), 2007
    Chinese trade and assistance to Africa resumed markedly at the end of the Cold War and has grown exponentially since. China’s pragmatic policy focus on economic issues in Africa has been met with rising concern by other powers, notably the United States and European countries such as France, which have had to reassess their relations with the continent as a result.
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    Development Banks from the BRICS

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2015
    The BRIC acronym was created at the beginning of the 2000s to represent a group of four fast-growing economies –Brazil, Russia, India and China – and was changed to BRICS in December 2010 with the inclusion of South Africa.

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