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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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    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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    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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    The prospects of South Africa’s engagement with ASEAN countries

    Institute for Global Dialogue, South Africa, 2014
     According to the South African draft White Paper on Foreign Policy "Building a better world: the diplomacy of ubuntu", the Asian continent is of increasing importance to South Africa and Africa.
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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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    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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    South Africa in Southern Africa: seminar report

    Centre for Conflict Resolution, University of Cape Town (UCT), 2012
    The Southern African Development Coordination Conference (SADCC) was launched in 1980 to reduce the sub-region’s economic dependence on South Africa and to support the struggle against the apartheid state.
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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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