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    Deepening India’s engagement with Africa through better market access

    Knowledge Partnership Programme, 2015
    In order to provide ‘trade’ stimulus to Least Developed Countries (LDCs), India launched a Duty-Free Tariff Preferences (DFTP) scheme in 2008. DFTP scheme provides duty free treatment to about 98 per cent of tariff lines and 48 LDCs are beneficiary of this scheme. Preliminary evidence indicates the effect of the scheme has been limited and varies from country to country.
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    What role for natural resources in Botswana’s quest for economic diversification?

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2015
    Botswana is typically perceived as a development anomaly on the continent. With a stable democracy and strong economic growth since 1966, the country’s success is in danger of being taken for granted. Diamond revenues are likely to decline in the near future. The government has historically depended on these, through its partnership with De Beers, to fund its development plans.
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    The G77 + China’s role in trade multilateralism: advocating for South agency

    Institute for Global Dialogue, South Africa, 2014
    Developing countries have for several decades sought to align their aspirations and collectively express their interests in global fora. The largest intergovernmental organisation of developing countries, the Group of 77 and China (hereafter G77), marked its 50th jubilee in June 2014.
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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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    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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    G20, development and global governence: an assessment

    Institute for Global Dialogue, South Africa, 2012
    Since its founding at the end of the 1990s, the G20 has achieved progressively higher visibility in the evolving architecture of global governance, most recently taking a leading role in the management of the global financial crisis of 2008 and in managing policy coordination to mitigate the major recession that followed.
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    The prospects of South Africa’s engagement with ASEAN countries

    Institute for Global Dialogue, South Africa, 2014
     According to the South African draft White Paper on Foreign Policy "Building a better world: the diplomacy of ubuntu", the Asian continent is of increasing importance to South Africa and Africa.
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    Africa-Brazil relations in the context of global changes

    Institute for Global Dialogue, South Africa, 2014
    Relations between Africa and Brazil date back to the era of slave trade in which many African slaves were settled in Brazil and other parts of Latin America and the Caribbean Island. Due to the historical experience of slave trade, the African dimension remains very robust and apparent in Brazil, through genetic, cultural  and linguistic legacy.
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    Technical regulations and trade: implications for regional integration

    Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies, South Africa, 2015
    Technical regulations lay down compulsory requirements for product or service characteristics or their related processes and production methods. They have specific administrative provisions and conformity assessment requirements with which compliance is mandatory for safety, health, environmental control and consumer protection.

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