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    Increased Chinese engagement in South Africa’s economy – strategies, opportunities and future implications

    Centre for Chinese Studies, University of Stellenbosch, 2015
    China and South Africa’s relationship has deepened in recent years. Extensive political structures, such as South Africa’s Comprehensive Strategic Partnership agreement with China, provide opportunities for bettering local development.
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    Situating Tian Ze’s role in reviving Zimbabwe’s flue-cured tobacco sector in the wider discourse on Zimbabwe- China cooperation: will the scorecard remain win-win?

    Future Agricultures Consortium, 2015
    The milestone 1998 land reform conference convened by Zimbabwe and major donors ended in a stalemate on how the country was to proceed thereon. In the aftermath of that landmark event, Zimbabwe proceeded unilaterally in implementing a fairly radical land reform programme that saw land owned by almost all white large scale commercial farmers being redistributed among indigenous people.
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    Emerging seed markets: the role of Brazilian, Chinese and Indian seeds in African agriculture

    Future Agricultures Consortium, 2014
    In recent years, three of the largest emerging powers, Brazil, China and India, have all brought about incredible agricultural revolutions and seeds have played a big part in that story. Nowadays, their seed markets are all within the world’s top ten in terms of value and their companies are eager to expand into new markets, particularly in Africa.
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    SAIS China Africa Research Initiative

    The China Africa Research Initiative (CARI) is based at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies.
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    India’s growing dependence on imports in the area of bulk drugs

    Research and Information System for Developing Countries, 2015
    In the background of concerns being voiced by pharmaceutical industry and academics as well as policymakers, RIS organised a Colloquium on India’s Growing Dependence on Imports in the Area of Bulk Drugs in New Delhi on 23 December 2014 to provide inputs for government policymaking. The Colloquium observed that:
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    Oil supply routes in the Asia Pacific: China's strategic calculations

    Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi, 2011
    Energy security forms the backbone of most economic and political policies of nations around the world. China is no exception and is increasingly following a multi-pronged global strategy - one where its economic priorities do not necessarily overlap with its foreign policies.
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    India's electronics sector: policies, practices and lessons from China

    Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi, 2014
    The National Policy on Electronics (NPE) 2012 is primarily aimed at ramping up India's Electronic Design and Manufacturing (ESDM) capability. The policy comes on the back of a strong and sustained demand for consumer electronic goods that accounted for a hefty bill of US$125 billion last year.
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    Crouching tiger, hidden dragon? China and Africa: engaging the world's next superpower

    Centre for Conflict Resolution, University of Cape Town (UCT), 2007
    Chinese trade and assistance to Africa resumed markedly at the end of the Cold War and has grown exponentially since. China’s pragmatic policy focus on economic issues in Africa has been met with rising concern by other powers, notably the United States and European countries such as France, which have had to reassess their relations with the continent as a result.
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    Taming the Dragon? Defining Africa's Interests at the Forum on China-Africa Co-operation (FOCAC): seminar report

    Centre for Conflict Resolution, University of Cape Town (UCT), 2009
    China is an increasingly influential actor in international relations, as its economy and geo-political interests continue to expand. African countries will continue to be important to Beijing, as China’s phenomenal economic growth is likely to increase its demand for Africa’s strategic resources, notwithstanding the global financial crisis of 2008/2009.
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    Development Banks from the BRICS

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2015
    The BRIC acronym was created at the beginning of the 2000s to represent a group of four fast-growing economies –Brazil, Russia, India and China – and was changed to BRICS in December 2010 with the inclusion of South Africa.

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