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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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    Emerging solutions to drive private investment in climate resilience

    Climate Policy Initiative, 2015
    With climate change and extreme weather expected to increase risks to businesses, including their supply chains, productivity, revenues, and credit-ratings, climate resilience is a topic that should be a high priority to the private sector.
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    Re-examining India's nuclear doctrine

    Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi, 2015
    The Indian Government announced its formal nuclear doctrine on 4 January 2003, almost five years after testing its nuclear weapons capability in May 1998. While the one-page document was vague and subject to interpretation, what was clear was that it reiterated India's 'No First Use' policy.
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    Nuclear safety and regulation in India: the way forward

    Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi, 2015
    On 27 March 2015, the Integrated Regulatory Review Service (IRRS) submitted a draft report to India's Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB) reviewing the country's legal and regulatory regime for safety of Nuclear Power Plants (NPPs) and safety practices Oand policies at plants across the country.
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    Turkey says 'No' to presidential government

    Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi, 2015
    The ruling party in Turkey for 13 years, the AKP (Justice and Development Party) failed to secure the 276 seats required to form a majority government in the last general election held on June 7 this year.
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    Mining value chains and green growth in South Africa: A conflictual but intertwined relationship

    Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies, South Africa, 2015
    The development of mining value chains is conflictual but deeply intertwined with the goal of sustainable development.  The response of mining value chains to the shift to a green economy cannot be business-as-usual and requires a proactive answer by business, Government, labour, non-governmental organisations and the research community in support of sustainable development.
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    Internationalization of regional clusters: theoretical and empirical issues

    State University Higher School of Economics,, Russian Federation, 2015
    Today regions are becoming independent actors able to compete globally as globalization of competition is consistent with the localization of competitive advantage. In many ways regional competitiveness is based on the clustering concept. Changes in the global economic environment are making cluster linkages more important, too.
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    The United Nations Post-2015 Agenda for Global Development: perspectives from China and Europe

    Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik / German Development Institute (GDI), 2014
    This publication focuses on scholarly discourses and policy challenges in China and Germany. Articles from The German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE), also cover European perspectives while chapters from the Shanghai Institutes for International Studies (SIIS) extend to the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa).
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    Post 2015: how emerging economies shape the relevance of a new agenda

    Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik / German Development Institute (GDI), 2013
    The rise of emerging economies has fundamentally changed the context in which negotiations on a post-2015 agreement take place. The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) were an agenda driven by traditional donors and North-South relations – a model of global relations that is outdated today.
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    India and its Eastern neighbours: prospects for sub-regional cooperation

    Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi, 2015
    South Asia is the fastest growing region in the world. The combined economy of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) is the third largest in the world in terms of GDP (PPP), with US and China ahead. SAARC countries make up around 21 percent of the total world population with around 1.7 billion people.

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