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Searching with a thematic focus on Rising powers in international development, Rising powers business and private sector in South Africa

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  The TDCA, EPAs and Southern African regionalism

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2004

  This paper looks at the potential problem that EPAs (Economic Partnership Agreements) may create a division in the Southern African region.
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  How did David prepare to talk to Goliath? South Africa's experience of trade negotiations with the EU

  European Centre for Development Policy Management, 2004

  This paper analyses the experience of South Africa in pursuing a development-focused trade strategy, and successfully mobilising its limited capacity to conduct negotiations on a free trade agreement with the EU. The paper argues that lessons from this experience are useful to many developing countries who struggle to negotiate development-friendly trade regimes.
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  E-commerce for exporting garments from South Africa: digital dividend or leap of faith?

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2003

  This paper attempts to understand whether leading export-oriented garment producers in South Africa are using business to business (B2B) e-commerce to expand their reach into new markets, and to prepare and complete transactions with overseas buyers.
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  Has the EU denied South Africa an equal place at the world trade table?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004

  The trading relationship between the European Union (EU) and South Africa is shaped by the Trade, Development and Cooperation Agreement (TDCA) signed in 1999. Far from giving preferential treatment to an ex-colony, the TDCA actually imposes harsher liberalisation standards on South Africa’s agricultural exports than it does on Europe’s.
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  South-South collaboration picks up steam

  SciDev.Net, 2003

  Nations such as Brazil, India, South Africa and China are increasingly acknowledging that they share not only common social and economic challenges, but also common goals in international trade negotiations.
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  TRIPS, pharmaceutical patents, and access to essential medicines: a long way from Seattle to Doha

  Médecins Sans Frontières, 2003

  Public health advocates welcomed the Doha Declaration as an important achievement because it gave primacy to public health over private intellectual property, and clarified World Trade Organization (WTO) Members' rights to use trade-related aspects of intellectual property rights (TRIPS) safeguards.
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  To liberalise or not to liberalise? a review of the South African government’s trade policy

  Southern African Regional Poverty Network, 2003

  This paper argues that trade liberalisation is appropriate in South Africa subject to the need to maintain social stability. The author recommends that the state must play an active role, in collaboration with business and key civil society institutions, in promoting South Africa’s integration into the global economy.
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  Efficiency or equality? Dilemmas of regulation and competition policy in South Africa

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  As vital sectors of the South African economy are restructured, can regulation and competition policies meet the post-apartheid challenges of redressing ingrained inequality and widening opportunities to participate in the economy? Is South Africa setting up too many regulatory bodies? Are regulators, rather than elected representatives, making policy?
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  Towards global social movement unionism?: trade union responses to globalization in South Africa

  International Labour Organization, 2000

  This case study surveys the response of the South African labour movement to globalisation.
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  Unlimited companies: the developmental impacts of an investment agreement at the WTO

  ActionAid International, 2003

  This paper presents Actionaids response to the issues surroundings the Cancun Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), to be held in September 2003.ActionAid is concerned that an investment agreement negotiated at the WTO could inflict lasting damage on the livelihoods of poor people in developing countries.

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