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    Co-operation in the South Atlantic Zone: amplifying the African agenda

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2015
    South Africa’s foreign policy prioritises peaceful and sustainable growth in Africa by maximising its external engagements in increasingly strategic ways.
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    The chimera of global convergence

    Transnational Institute, 2014
    It has become a staple of conventional wisdom that global economic power is shifting inexorably towards the East and the South. Many insist that we are on the brink of a world-­historic rebalancing that will result in the end of Western domination and the rise of a new hegemony.
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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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    South Africa and the BRICS alliance: challenges and opportunities for South Africa and Africa

    Transnational Institute, 2014
    South Africa under the ANC and its alliance with the BRICS promised a more moral, democratic vision of global governance, but in practice its foreign policy has been too often swayed by narrow commercial interests and short-term growth. For the past decade, Africa has experienced the longest continuous growth spurt since independence from colonialism.
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    China and India, “rising powers” and African development : challenges and opportunities

    Nordic Africa Institute / Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, Uppsala, 2014
    In this report, the challenges and opportunities arising from the growing ties between two key “Rising Powers,” China and India, and Africa are more fully explored. This trend has given rise to speculative, exaggerated and ideological responses and a mixture of anxiety and hope.
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    Mining value chains and green growth in South Africa: A conflictual but intertwined relationship

    Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies, South Africa, 2015
    The development of mining value chains is conflictual but deeply intertwined with the goal of sustainable development.  The response of mining value chains to the shift to a green economy cannot be business-as-usual and requires a proactive answer by business, Government, labour, non-governmental organisations and the research community in support of sustainable development.
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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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    Anticipating the South African tenure in the Chair of the G77: the context and contours

    Institute for Global Dialogue, South Africa, 2014
    South Africa has a precious opportunity to use the chairpersonship of the G77 to help transform the agency of the global south from making lofty undertakings to taking concrete measures to implement what has been agreed. It has the opportunity to strengthen the G77 secretariat by attracting more financial resources and ensuring sound and efficient management systems are in place.
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    The Durban BRICS Summit: partnership for development and integration proceedings report

    Institute for Global Dialogue, South Africa, 2013
    The media hype and international attention that centered on Durban during the fifth BRICS Summit (26–27 March 2013) has faded.
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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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