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    Towards a new partnership: China in the SADC banking sector

    Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies, South Africa, 2008
    Sino-African relations have long been defined by projects and infrastructure development in sectors that are of strategic importance to the growth of the Chinese economy. These are projects that have typically ensured a steady supply of much needed resources and raw materials to Chinese industries. Chinese banks have, in turn, been involved in the financing of such projects.
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    South Africa’s developmental state makeover

    Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies, South Africa, 2010
    This paper highlights ten key features of the Developmental State (DS) growth model by contrasting economic and institutional trends between China (and East Asia more generally) and South Africa.
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    China - Mali relationship: finding mutual benefit between unequal partners

    Centre for Chinese Studies, University of Stellenbosch, 2014
    Since 2000, China-Africa co-operation has seen a rapid increase in scope and size. The West African nation of Mali is one of the 50 African states with diplomatic relations with China; its experience allows for possible parallels with other African states in their engagement with a much more potent partner.
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    Navigating the US Congressional process of reauthorising AGOA

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2014
    The African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA), which provides eligible
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    Ethiopia and BRICS: a bilateral trade analysis

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2014
    Ethiopia is currently the 70th largest economy in the world. With an average gross domestic product (GDP) growth of about 9.9% between 2004 and 2011, it is one of the fastest growing economies in the world.
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    The way forward for the Southern African Development Community Economic Partnership Agreement

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2014
    Negotiations on economic partnership agreements (EPAs) between the European Union (EU) and African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries will end on 1 October 2014. After long and acrimonious talks, concessions must now be made. In the Southern African Development
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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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