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No credit due: World Bank and IMF in Africa
Institute for Global Dialogue, South Africa, 2008This paper seeks to explain the policy-based lending progamme of the World Bank (WB), and the significance of its engagement with developing economies. The paper concludes with a clarion call, for a political approach to economics.DocumentKorea and South Africa: building a strategic partnership
Institute for Global Dialogue, South Africa, 2009In 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.DocumentBRICS partnership: a case of South- South cooperation? Exploring the roles of South Africa and Africa
Institute for Global Dialogue, South Africa, 2013The BRICS partnership is developing rapidly. Current global events, such as the economic crisis in the advanced industrialised economies, and hand-wringing over the crisis in Syria, have brought the group, and its individual members, to the forefront of international decision-making.DocumentSouth Africa in the transitioning multilateral development cooperation landscape
Institute for Global Dialogue, South Africa, 2014Between 2006 and 2010, South Africa received an estimated R 200 million (US$ 22 million) from various Western governments and agencies through the United Nations Development Fund (UNDP). Yet about one fifth of the total sum of this Development Fund came from the government of South Africa itself. This scenario problematizes South Africa‟s dual identity.DocumentSouth Africa and opportunities for trilateral development cooperation
Institute for Global Dialogue, South Africa, 2014International development cooperation has traditionally been channeled from the geo-political North to the South, but developments in South-South cooperation and the appreciation of shared developmental experiences among developing countries is beginning to change the development cooperation landscape.DocumentThe prospects of South Africa’s engagement with ASEAN countries
Institute for Global Dialogue, South Africa, 2014According 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.DocumentAfrica-Brazil relations in the context of global changes
Institute for Global Dialogue, South Africa, 2014Relations between Africa and Brazil date back to the era of slave trade in which many African slaves were settled in Brazil and other parts of Latin America and the Caribbean Island. Due to the historical experience of slave trade, the African dimension remains very robust and apparent in Brazil, through genetic, cultural and linguistic legacy.DocumentAfrica and South-South development partnerships
Institute for Global Dialogue, South Africa, 2013The emergence of new economic powers in Asia, Latin America and Africa has been accompanied by an upsurge in cooperation among developing countries, breathing new life and significance into the concept of South-South cooperation.DocumentBrazil and Africa: cooperation for endogenous development?
Institute for Global Dialogue, South Africa, 2013Hardly a year since the first BRICS Summit hosted in Africa, Brazil has announced bold plans to emasculate its development cooperation with Africa, with a strong focus on debt write-off, targeted aid in productive areas of the economy and technology transfer.DocumentA foreign policy handbook: an overview of South African foreign policy in context
Institute for Global Dialogue, South Africa, 2014The Parliament of South Africa has a proud tradition of engagement in South Africa’s foreign policy. The Portfolio Committee on International Relations and Cooperation (the Committee) has been engaged in debate on numerous issues, from human rights to economic diplomacy, in shaping South Africa’s approach towards international relations.Pages
