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    BRICS, mega-regional FTAs and South Africa’s trade strategy

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2014
    Global trade strategy does not seem to be an overriding imperative motivating the Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa (BRICS) grouping. More attention is paid to issues of local currency internationalisation interacting with accessing natural resource
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    BRICS in the World Trade Organization: comparative trade policies - Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2014
    In the light of the great uncertainties surrounding the current global political and economic situation, the role of emerging countries has been the focus of growing academic interest.
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    China's engagement in Africa: responding to growing tensions and contradictions

    BRICS Policy Center / Centro de Estudos e Pesquisas BRICS, 2013
    China’s involvement in Africa goes back more than fifty years. However, over the past decade or so its presence on the continent has been growing at a remarkable rate. Since 2000, China-Africa trade has increased twenty-fold, and Chinese direct investment in Africa more than thirty-fold.
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    Solidarity among brothers? Brazil in Africa: trade, investment and cooperation

    BRICS Policy Center / Centro de Estudos e Pesquisas BRICS, 2014
    South-South cooperation (SSC) emerged as a key Brazilian foreign policy instrument in the beginning of Lula’s presidency in 2003 and has generally been sustained by the government of President Dilma Rousseff. From the beginning, Brazil has emphasized SSC in Africa despite not having articulated an explicit foreign policy towards the region.
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    Five fingers or one hand? The BRICS in development cooperation

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2014
    The BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) are increasingly prominent in development cooperation activities in low-income countries in Africa and worldwide, presenting a potential alternative to the development aid model of traditional donors.
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    The development implications of the fracking revolution

    Overseas Development Institute, 2014
    A larger number of countries are exposed to a potential trade shock emerging from a change in US oil imports including Angola, Congo, and Nigeria. An increase in fracking in China with the same size in the trade shock would double the effect. The total estimated effects from a reduction in US oil imports from African countries amount to US$32 billion.
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    Building BRICs by building stadiums: preliminary reflections on recent and future sports mega-events in four emerging economies

    International Research Institute for Sport Studies, UK, 2014
    Research on sports mega-events throughout the world has demonstrated that the benefits of staging them tend to be overestimated and the costs underestimated.
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    The future of the World Trading System: Asian perspectives

    Centre for Economic Policy Research, London, 2013
    One important factor underlying the growth of trade and investment, and the resulting regional economic integration in Asia, is the formation of global production networks and supply chains, particularly the growth of vertical intra-industry trade in parts, components, other intermediate goods, and finished manufactured products.
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    Innovative Asia: advancing the knowledge-based economy - highlights of the forthcoming ADB study

    Asian Development Bank, 2014
    This paper provides highlights from an Asian Development Bank (ADB) study titled “Asia’s Knowledge Economies: Next Policy Agenda.” A suite of reports will be completed shortly under this study: a flagship report on knowledge-based economies in Asia; four country reports on the People’s Republic of China, India, Indonesia, and Kazakhstan; and a report on creative producti
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    ‘Oil for Housing’: Chinesebuilt new towns in Angola

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2014
    China has gained a foothold in the African construction sector through the provision of ‘resources for infrastructure’ loans. The dominance of Chinese companies is particularly evident in mega projects such as railways, major transportation arteries, public buildings, etc.

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