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    Export diversification in Zambia and Botswana: little progress so far

    Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies, South Africa, 2011
    Botswana and Zambia are both heavily reliant on primary commodity exports. Both Zambia and Botswana have emphasised export diversification over a long time. Carefully guided sectoral interventions have yielded some small results in Zambia and sectoral interventions should be investigated in Botswana.
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    Southern African Development Community: reaping the benefits of regional economic integration

    Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies, South Africa, 2011
    Southern African Development Community (SADC) members signed the Trade Protocol in 1996, however progress in the region to reap the benefits purported to accompany regional economic integration appears limited. Although SADC has adopted a growth and development through trade strategy, indications are that more needs to be done to implement this in a way that yields more positive results.
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    Southern Africa Customs Union: getting ready for services negotiations

    Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies, South Africa, 2011
    For many African states, negotiations to liberalise trade in services is a relatively new experience.
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    The growth of turkey in world trade: opportunity or threat for MENA countries?

    Economic Research Forum, Egypt, 2013
    The growth of the Turkish economy is far from being a zero sum game for the MENA region. The aim of this paper is to study the impact of the emergence of the Turkish economy on the MENA countries. The paper focuses on two channels through which MENA states and Turkey interact, namely FDI and trade flows.
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    Win win partnership? China, Southern Africa and extractive industries

    Southern African Resource Watch, 2012
    The People’s Republic of China (PRC) has prioritised Africa as a strategic partner at both the political and economic levels. According to some observers, the evidence of China’s growing African involvement suggests a strategy devised to secure access to the continent’s abundant resources.
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    Revision of India-Nepal treaty of trade and its implications for strengthening bilateral trade and investment linkages

    Research and Information System for Developing Countries, 2010
    Relations between India and Nepal have been bound by long standing geographical, historical, cultural, social and economic ties that the peoples’ of the two countries have shared since time immemorial.
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    Rules of origin under regional trade agreements

    Research and Information System for Developing Countries, 2010
    Rules of origin (ROO) have emerged as an area in which consensus is hard to achieve among negotiating countries within an RTA. Disagreements over rules of origin have often deferred the implementation of several trade agreements. One of the reasons for this is because ROO are viewed as those obstructing trade.
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    Regional economic integration in South Asia: prospects and challenges

    Research and Information System for Developing Countries, 2009
    Realising its importance, the South Asian region has also embarked upon various processes of regional economic integration. However, the South Asian regional integration process is fraught with difficulties, especially due to a lack of understanding about the very economics of regional economic integration.
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    Regional cooperation for regional infrastructure development: challenges and policy options for South Asia

    Research and Information System for Developing Countries, 2009
    Regional infrastructure is one of the major determinants of economic integration process. It enhances international and regional connectivity through the free flow of goods and factors across borders, allowing countries to benefit from a better relocation of resources.
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    Towards an Asian regional mechanism for addressing excess foreign exchange reserves, infrastructure deficits and global imbalances

    Research and Information System for Developing Countries, 2007
    Foreign exchange reserves of Asia are now more than $3 trillion and increasing at more than 10 per cent per year. While such abundance of reserves is a cause for comfort in many Asian countries with recent memories of foreign exchange crisis, there are at least three major problems associated with it;

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