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    Towards a new partnership: China in the SADC banking sector

    Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies, South Africa, 2008
    Sino-African relations have long been defined by projects and infrastructure development in sectors that are of strategic importance to the growth of the Chinese economy. These are projects that have typically ensured a steady supply of much needed resources and raw materials to Chinese industries. Chinese banks have, in turn, been involved in the financing of such projects.
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    China's evolving industrial policy strategies and instruments: lessons for development

    Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies, South Africa, 2010
    This paper argues that perspectives characterising the trajectory of China’s economic reforms as “reversing course” are misleading by not recognising the current stage of Chinese industrial development and the policy initiatives adopted to steer the country towards widely-stated national objectives.
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    South Africa’s developmental state makeover

    Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies, South Africa, 2010
    This paper highlights ten key features of the Developmental State (DS) growth model by contrasting economic and institutional trends between China (and East Asia more generally) and South Africa.
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    Can the Bali package resolve the Doha impasse and secure the future of the WTO?

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2015
    Much of recent commentary on the World Trade Organization (WTO) has focused on the stalled Doha Development Round, the reasons for the impasse and proposals for its resolution. In the lead-up to the Bali
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    Withdrawal of regulatory duties: a step taken by the government

    Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Pakistan, 2012
    Pakistan is a developing country and has registered a very low growth rate (2.4%) according to the economic survey of Pakistan 2010-11. At present the country suffers from natural and manmade as well as external pressures. To cope with the crises, the revenue generation side of the country has proved to be very weak.
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    Dual banking and financial contagion

    Economic Research Forum, Egypt, 2013
    In the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region the banking system is becoming dual in many countries where there is a presence of both conventional banks (CBs) and Islamic banks (IBs). This duality has generated a new challenge for central banks in designing their regulatory and supervisory frameworks.
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    Sino-American rivalry in the context of Asia-Pacific economic regionalism

    State University Higher School of Economics,, Russian Federation, 2014
    The rise of Asian regionalism and Sino-American rivalry are determining trends in the Asia-Pacific region. Asian economic indicators remain stable and growing even during the severe global crisis of 2008 and have become more and more comparable to those of developed countries.
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    Do global shocks drive investor herds in oil-rich frontier markets?

    Economic Research Forum, Egypt, 2013
    This paper examines the dynamic relationship between global fundamentals and market factors and herding behavior in the five oil rich, frontier stock markets of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) - Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Kuwait, Qatar and Saud Arabia - using a time-varying transition probability Markov-switching model (TVTP-MS).
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    China - Mali relationship: finding mutual benefit between unequal partners

    Centre for Chinese Studies, University of Stellenbosch, 2014
    Since 2000, China-Africa co-operation has seen a rapid increase in scope and size. The West African nation of Mali is one of the 50 African states with diplomatic relations with China; its experience allows for possible parallels with other African states in their engagement with a much more potent partner.
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    The services sector in Africa

    Trade Law Centre for Southern Africa, 2014
    Services are playing an increasingly important role in the modern economy, but while economists and policy makers focus on trade in merchandise goods they tend to spend significantly less time examining the services trade.

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