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    China's WTO entry: effects on its economy and implications for the Philippines

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2004
    The Philippines’ bilateral trade with China has increased steadily since China adopted the open door policy in late 1979. The growth has been particularly rapid in the nineties when Chinafocused its liberalisation on foreign trade.
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    The last golden land? Chinese private companies go to Africa

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2012
    A new dynamic presence is spreading rapidly and widely across Africa: that of Chinese private enterprises. For these firms, Africa is ‘the last golden land’ of economic opportunity.
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    Not beating around the Bush: understanding China and South Africa’s illegal wildlife trade

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2015
    A major threat to the survival of endangered wildlife species is the absence of consensus on the causes of and solutions to their illegal trade, with this expanding trade causing increasing devastation.
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    The dance of the elephant and the dragon: the promise and perils of Sino-Indian relations

    Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi, 2015
    India and China, two of the world's oldest civilisations, have had Ilittle historically relevant interactions with one other. Separated by the world's highest mountain range, the Himalayas, neither of these two nations has ever displayed expansionist tendencies vis-à-vis each other.
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    China-Egypt trade and investment ties – seeking a better balance

    Centre for Chinese Studies, University of Stellenbosch, 2015
    This policy brief examines Chinese investments in Egypt and the bi-lateral trading relationship between the two countries in order to better understand the extent of economic engagement. Since 2013, a spur in high-level diplomatic exchanges led to the signing of numerous agreements, including a Comprehensive Strategic Partnership agreement.
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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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    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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