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    From isolation to integration? A study of Chinese retailers in Dakar

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2010
    Starting from the late 1990s, more and more Chinese have migrated to Senegal, concentrating and opening small shops along the Boulevard Général de Gaulle, one of the major roads in Dakar.
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    Banking in Nigeria and Chinese economic diplomacy in Africa

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2010
    While Sino–Nigerian relations have grown significantly since the 1970s, several aspects of the relationship have been controversial and difficult. However, the special attraction the two countries hold for each other has made the relationship persist, even amid difficulties and challenges.
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    International trade and emerging markets since the crisis

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2011
    The global economic crisis has sparked the short-term divergence of economic performance between the West and emerging markets, thereby accelerating their convergence in the long-run, and is particularly evident in globalising Asia. Governments’ responses to the biggest deglobalisation since the Great Depression did not precipitate a descent into 1930s-style protectionism.
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    Is SACU ready for a monetary union?

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2013
    Attaining a monetary union is an ambition for most African regional economic communities. Although studies have been undertaken on the costs and benefits of monetary unions, there has been little focus on the viability of a Common Monetary Area for member states of the South African Customs Union (SACU).
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    Global governance and the KAS guidelines: the view from India

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2012
    The Konrad Adenauer Stiftung (KAS) guidelines are a framework for discussions on issues of global economic governance that could be relevant for all G-20 countries. This paper sets out to examine India’s approach to the guidelines against its internal and external policies and the general background of current changes and challenges in world economic governance.
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    The economic gateway to Africa? geography, strategy and South Africa's regional economic relations

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2012
    A closer look at economic interaction in sub-Saharan Africa confirms that South Africa interlinks many of its neighbouring countries globally. This paper argues that South Africa's role as an economic gateway primarily depends upon geography, i.e. upon naturally given and man-made structures in geographical space.
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    South Africa's investment landscape: mapping economic incentives

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2011
    For an economy to attract productive, sustainable local and foreign investment, a stable investment climate along with a supportive investment policy framework is necessary. Government-owned or -mandated investment promotion agencies (IPAs) have an important role to play in marketing the country and its particular investment opportunities to potential investors.
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    South Africa's current account deficit: are proposed cures worse than the disease?

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2008
    Each time the domestic trade balance shows a deficit, the policy discussion becomes very emotional. Normally discussions are driven by a strong mercantilist bias: trade surpluses are seen as a benefit to the country and they are claimed to be caused by own competitiveness.
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    Social gains in the balance: a fiscal policy challenge for Latin America and the Caribbean

    World Bank, 2014
    The proportion of the Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) region's 600 million people living in extreme poverty, defined in the region as life on less than $2.50 a day, was cut in half between 2003 and 2012 to 12.3 percent.
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    Left behind by the G20? How inequality and environmental degradation threaten to exclude poor people from the benefits of economic growth

    2012
    In 2010, the G20 committed themselves to promoting inclusive and sustainable economic growth. They argued that ‘for prosperity to be sustained it must be shared’ and also endorsed ‘green growth’, which

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