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    Imagining South Africa’s Foreign Investment Regulatory Regime in a Global Context

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2015
    International trade and investment have been around for a long time. The quest for resources has manifested itself through trade and, as time evolved, has been realised through wars of conquest, friendship, commerce and navigation treaties, colonialism, gunboat diplomacy
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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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    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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    South Africa: between regional integration and trade multilateralism

    Institute for Global Dialogue, South Africa, 2014
    Global trade is conducted through engagements bilaterally, regionally and inter - regionally and multilaterally. The most widely inclusive process is multilateralism, defined by the World Trade Organisation (WTO) as a system „to help trade flow as freely as possible‟ and set out as its objective.
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    Technical regulations and trade: implications for regional integration

    Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies, South Africa, 2015
    Technical regulations lay down compulsory requirements for product or service characteristics or their related processes and production methods. They have specific administrative provisions and conformity assessment requirements with which compliance is mandatory for safety, health, environmental control and consumer protection.
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    The India-Brazil-South Africa Trilateral Dialogue Forum at 10 years: reflections and looking ahead

    Institute for Global Dialogue, South Africa, 2013
    In 2003 India, Brazil and South Africa issued the Brasilia Declaration launching what has become known as IBSA, a trilateral initiative of multifaceted cooperation among three of the most influential regional powers on their respective continents.
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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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    South Africa, the Indian Ocean and the IBSA-BRICS equation: reflections on geopolitical and strategic dimension

    Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi, 2013
    South Africa's entry into the Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS) forum in 2011 alongside its membership in the trilateral forum of India-Brazil-South Africa (IBSA) raises a number of issues in the nature of trends analysis. These have to do with the relationships among the
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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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    The Eagle and the Springbok: strengthening the Nigeria/South Africa relationship: policy brief

    Centre for Conflict Resolution, University of Cape Town (UCT), 2012
    Nigeria and South Africa have led economic integration and development, as well as peacekeeping and peacebuilding efforts, in their respective sub-regions, and other parts of Africa. Their partnership represents the continent’s most strategic bilateral relationship.

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