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  South Africa and the BRICS alliance: challenges and opportunities for South Africa and Africa

  Transnational Institute, 2014

  South Africa under the ANC and its alliance with the BRICS promised a more moral, democratic vision of global governance, but in practice its foreign policy has been too often swayed by narrow commercial interests and short-term growth. For the past decade, Africa has experienced the longest continuous growth spurt since independence from colonialism.
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  China and India, “rising powers” and African development : challenges and opportunities

  Nordic Africa Institute / Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, Uppsala, 2014

  In this report, the challenges and opportunities arising from the growing ties between two key “Rising Powers,” China and India, and Africa are more fully explored. This trend has given rise to speculative, exaggerated and ideological responses and a mixture of anxiety and hope.
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  The Brics and global capitalism

  Transnational Institute, 2014

  Does the emergence of a multipolar global order open up policy space for alternative economic visions and pose a necessary challenge to a US and Northern-dominated global order? Or might it instead reinvigorate capitalism and exploitation by a new constellation of corporate elites?
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  South and Southern Africa and the Indian Ocean-South Atlantic nexus: strategic and blue economy dimensions

  Institute for Global Dialogue, South Africa, 2015

  This policy brief summarises and updates the outcome of the very first symposium devoted to exploring Indian Ocean-South Atlantic sea lanes of convergence around South Africa’s Cape of Good Hope.
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  South African Futures 2035: Can Bafana Bafana still score?

  Institute for Security Studies, 2015

  It is evident that, as much as the country has made progress, South Africa has made an incomplete transition to inclusive politics and an incomplete transition towards inclusive economics.
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  Recalibrating South Africa’s role in global economic governance: a Nigerian perspective on some strategic challenges

  Global Economic Governance Africa, 2015

  A Nigerian perspective on South Africa’s position in global economic governance, particularly in relation to its role in the BRICS grouping and the G-20, provides critical insights into the potential benefits of a reinvigorated Nigerian–South African partnership.
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  Imagining South Africa’s Foreign Investment Regulatory Regime in a Global Context

  South African Institute of International Affairs, 2015

  International trade and investment have been around for a long time. The quest for resources has manifested itself through trade and, as time evolved, has been realised through wars of conquest, friendship, commerce and navigation treaties, colonialism, gunboat diplomacy
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  Reconfiguring international financial institutions: the BRICS Initiative

  Research and Information System for Developing Countries, 2015

  This paper examines the implications of the establishment of the New Development Bank (NDB) and the Contingent Reserve Arrangement (CRA) for the international financial system and for the BRICS countries.
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  Policy framework for Foreign Direct Investment promotion in South Africa: operations, effectiveness and Sustainability

  South African Institute of International Affairs, 2015

  Foreign direct investment promotion in South Africa has expanded considerably in the two decades from 1995 to 2015. The investment promotion system is quite decentralised, with much of the work being carried out by provincial governments, albeit with support from Trade and Investment South Africa (TISA), a division of the Department of Trade and Industry.
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  Anticipating the South African tenure in the Chair of the G77: the context and contours

  Institute for Global Dialogue, South Africa, 2014

  South Africa has a precious opportunity to use the chairpersonship of the G77 to help transform the agency of the global south from making lofty undertakings to taking concrete measures to implement what has been agreed. It has the opportunity to strengthen the G77 secretariat by attracting more financial resources and ensuring sound and efficient management systems are in place.

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