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    Aligning Africa’s maritime ambitions with broader Indian Ocean regionalism

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2015
    As Blue Economy initiatives increase there is a risk that efforts will be duplicated and inefficiencies will creep into co-operation efforts.
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    China–Africa co-operation: capacity building and social responsibility of investments

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2015
    Over the past decade, African economies have enjoyed a sustained period of growth, and this has made the continent an attractive destination for international investors. This paper reviews the contours of Chinese investment and aid programmes on the African continent, focusing on the issues of capacity building and social responsibility of investments.
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    Corporate social responsibility in South Africa’s mining industry: an assessment

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2015
    The corporate social responsibility (CSR) agenda has been a part of the global debate on socio-economic development for many decades. Countless claims have been made that CSR can contribute towards more
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    Gridlocked: a long-term look at South Africa’s electricity sector

    Institute for Security Studies, 2015
    Electricity generation in South Africa is changing, but whether the electricity grid will be able to adapt to these changes is uncertain. This paper presents an alternative frame for the current electricity challenges by focusing on the electricity grid.
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    The new Development Bank: identifying strategic and operational priorities

    Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi, 2015
    At the 2014 BRICS1 Summit held in July 2014 in Fortaleza, Brazil, the heads of the Amember states signed an agreement establishing a New Development Bank (NDB) that will finance infrastructure and sustainable development projects.
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    Social programmes and job promotion for the BRICS Youth

    International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2014
    Besides scaling up and improving the operationalisation of the initiatives designed to offer credit, work opportunities and vocational training to the youth, the BRICS nations, like all the nations of the globe, are faced with the pressing duty of finding means of including the youth productively in the labour market, in ways that genuinely represent the ambitions of this stage in the lifecycle
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    Preliminary observations on social security and health care systems of the BRICS

    International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2015
    This summary provides some preliminary findings of research on social security and health care policies in the BRICS countries. Thus far, our research demonstrates some basic institutional information about the social security and health care policies of the BRICS countries, as well as about their complementary policy aims. Social security (old-age pensions):
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    Researching the politics of service provision: a new conceptual and methodological approach

    Effective States and Inclusive Development Research Centre, 2014
    Although politics is seen as critical in shaping the quality of service provision in developing countries, this recognition has yet to be integrated within a conceptual frameworks that shape research.
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    Governance and inequality: benchmarking and interpreting South Africa’s evolving political settlement

    Effective States and Inclusive Development Research Centre, 2015
    Has South Africa’s political settlement provided a constructive platform for successfully addressing the country’s deep-seated economic challenges in an inclusive way? The current paper addresses this questions, and re-examines the foundations of the South African democracy.
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    The temptations and promotion of “China Dream”: calling for Africa’s home-grown rhetoric

    Centre for Chinese Studies, University of Stellenbosch, 2015
    Scholars have raised concerns that political rhetoric manifest in China-Africa relations tend to replicate China’s domestic ideals on the African continent. The exercise is witnessed in the coupling of the “Chinese Dream” and the “African Dream” in the rhetoric of China-Africa relations.

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