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    No credit due: World Bank and IMF in Africa

    Institute for Global Dialogue, South Africa, 2008
    This 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.
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    Korea and South Africa: building a strategic partnership

    Institute for Global Dialogue, South Africa, 2009
    In 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.
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    BRICS partnership: a case of South- South cooperation? Exploring the roles of South Africa and Africa

    Institute for Global Dialogue, South Africa, 2013
    The 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.
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    South Africa in the transitioning multilateral development cooperation landscape

    Institute for Global Dialogue, South Africa, 2014
    Between 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.
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    South Africa and opportunities for trilateral development cooperation

    Institute for Global Dialogue, South Africa, 2014
    International 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.
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    The prospects of South Africa’s engagement with ASEAN countries

    Institute for Global Dialogue, South Africa, 2014
     According 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.
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    Africa-Brazil relations in the context of global changes

    Institute for Global Dialogue, South Africa, 2014
    Relations 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.
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    Africa and South-South development partnerships

    Institute for Global Dialogue, South Africa, 2013
    The 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.
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    Brazil and Africa: cooperation for endogenous development?

    Institute for Global Dialogue, South Africa, 2013
    Hardly 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.
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    A foreign policy handbook: an overview of South African foreign policy in context

    Institute for Global Dialogue, South Africa, 2014
    The 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.

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