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    Policy framework for Foreign Direct Investment promotion in South Africa: operations, effectiveness and Sustainability

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2015
    Foreign direct investment promotion in South Africa has expanded considerably in the two decades from 1995 to 2015. The investment promotion system is quite decentralised, with much of the work being carried out by provincial governments, albeit with support from Trade and Investment South Africa (TISA), a division of the Department of Trade and Industry.
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    Anticipating the South African tenure in the Chair of the G77: the context and contours

    Institute for Global Dialogue, South Africa, 2014
    South Africa has a precious opportunity to use the chairpersonship of the G77 to help transform the agency of the global south from making lofty undertakings to taking concrete measures to implement what has been agreed. It has the opportunity to strengthen the G77 secretariat by attracting more financial resources and ensuring sound and efficient management systems are in place.
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    Multilateral development cooperation: what does it mean for South Africa’s foreign policy?

    Institute for Global Dialogue, South Africa, 2013
    As South Africa looks to consolidate its approach towards international development cooperation, decision makers will be faced with new challenges in reconciling policy implementation with identified principles. In March 2013, the Institute for Global Dialogue (IGD) hosted a working roundtable focusing on multilateral development cooperation and South Africa’s foreign policy.
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    The Durban BRICS Summit: partnership for development and integration proceedings report

    Institute for Global Dialogue, South Africa, 2013
    The media hype and international attention that centered on Durban during the fifth BRICS Summit (26–27 March 2013) has faded.
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    Korea and South Africa: building a strategic partnership

    Institute for Global Dialogue, South Africa, 2009
    In an era of global financial crisis and shrinking economies, it has become more urgent and more important for South Africa’s foreign policy to focus on international engagements that produce clearly defined commercial advantage in the national interest.
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    In the shadow of previous COPS: COP17’s mixed bag of outcomes

    Institute for Global Dialogue, South Africa, 2012
    Depending on perceptions, South Africa either had the enviable or the unpleasant task of organising, hosting and ensuring a credible outcome for the 17 th session of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Conference of the Parties (COP).
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    What future for BASIC? The emerging powers dimension in the international politics of climate change negotiations

    Institute for Global Dialogue, South Africa, 2012
    In Copenhagen 2009, the UNFCCC climate negotiations saw the rise of the emerging powers of Brazil, South Africa, India and China (BASIC) as they assumed a leading role in realizing the final outcome in the shape of the Copenhagen Accord.
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    BRICS partnership: a case of South- South cooperation? Exploring the roles of South Africa and Africa

    Institute for Global Dialogue, South Africa, 2013
    The BRICS partnership is developing rapidly. Current global events, such as the economic crisis in the advanced industrialised economies, and hand-wringing over the crisis in Syria, have brought the group, and its individual members, to the forefront of international decision-making.
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    South Africa in the transitioning multilateral development cooperation landscape

    Institute for Global Dialogue, South Africa, 2014
    Between 2006 and 2010, South Africa received an estimated R 200 million (US$ 22 million) from various Western governments and agencies through the United Nations Development Fund (UNDP). Yet about one fifth of the total sum of this Development Fund came from the government of South Africa itself. This scenario problematizes South Africa‟s dual identity.
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    South Africa and opportunities for trilateral development cooperation

    Institute for Global Dialogue, South Africa, 2014
    International development cooperation has traditionally been channeled from the geo-political North to the South, but developments in South-South cooperation and the appreciation of shared developmental experiences among developing countries is beginning to change the development cooperation landscape.

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