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    Stabilising Sudan: domestic, sub-regional, and extra-regional challenges: seminar report

    Centre for Conflict Resolution, University of Cape Town (UCT), 2010
    The Centre for Conflict Resolution (CCR) in Cape Town, South Africa, hosted a two-day policy advisory group seminar on August 2010 in Somerset West, Western Cape, on the theme: “Stabilising Sudan: Domestic, Sub-Regional, and Extra-Regional Challenges”.
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    Assessing the global effect of trade facilitation: evidence from the MIRAGE model

    Economic Research Forum, Egypt, 2011
    This paper contributes to the empirical literature on trade facilitation by capturing the complexity of the trade facilitation by using ad-valorem equivalents (AVEs) of administrative barriers estimated from a gravity model. Furthermore, the paper introduces trade facilitation in the multiregional and multi-sectoral CGE model, MIRAGE.
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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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    Taming the dragon? Defining Africa's interests at the Forum on China-Africa Co-operation (FOCAC): policy brief

    Centre for Conflict Resolution, University of Cape Town (UCT), 2009
    China is already an increasingly influential actor in future 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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    Stabilising Sudan: domestic, sub-regional, and extra-regional challenges: policy brief

    Centre for Conflict Resolution, University of Cape Town (UCT), 2011
    The Centre for Conflict Resolution (CCR) in Cape Town, South Africa, hosted a two-day policy advisory group seminar August 2010 in Somerset West, Western Cape, on the theme: “Stabilising Sudan: Domestic, Sub-Regional and Extra-Regional Challenges”.
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    South Africa, Africa, and the BRICS: progress, problems, and prospects: policy brief

    Centre for Conflict Resolution, University of Cape Town (UCT), 2014
    The Centre for Conflict Resolution (CCR), Cape Town, South Africa, hosted a two-day policy advisory group seminar in Tshwane (Pretoria), South Africa, 2014.
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    A systematic review of effect of prenatal zinc supplementation on irthweight: meta-analysis of 17 randomized controlled trials

    Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition, 2011
    The effect of prenatal zinc supplementation on birth weight is controversial as randomised controlled trials (RCTs) report conflicting conclusions. A systematic review which includes meta-analysis was done on 17 RCTs conducted worldwide since 1984 to assess the effect of prenatal zinc supplementation on birth weight. The studies were identified through web-based search.
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    South Africa in Southern Africa: policy brief

    Centre for Conflict Resolution, University of Cape Town (UCT), 2012
    Angola has replaced Zimbabwe, which previously occupied a leadership role in the Southern African Development Community (SADC), as Southern Africa’s second largest economy, and its evolving strategic relationship with South Africa could drive sub-regional development.
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    The political economy of public sector employment in resource dependent countries

    Economic Research Forum, Egypt, 2012
    This paper proposes a political economic explanation for the well documented difference in labour market institutions between high natural resource per capita countries and those that are natural resource dependent but whose populations are large.
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    South Africa and the BRICS: progress, problems, and prospects

    Centre for Conflict Resolution, University of Cape Town (UCT), 2014
    The BRICS countries played a pivotal role in enabling other developing and emerging economies to weather the impact of the global financial crisis of 2008–2009. Participation in the BRICS grouping offers an opportunity for South Africa to deepen and broaden its bilateral engagement with Brazil, Russia, India, and China.

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