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Towards a new partnership: China in the SADC banking sector
Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies, South Africa, 2008Sino-African relations have long been defined by projects and infrastructure development in sectors that are of strategic importance to the growth of the Chinese economy. These are projects that have typically ensured a steady supply of much needed resources and raw materials to Chinese industries. Chinese banks have, in turn, been involved in the financing of such projects.DocumentChina's evolving industrial policy strategies and instruments: lessons for development
Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies, South Africa, 2010This paper argues that perspectives characterising the trajectory of China’s economic reforms as “reversing course” are misleading by not recognising the current stage of Chinese industrial development and the policy initiatives adopted to steer the country towards widely-stated national objectives.DocumentThe differential effects of oil demand and supply shocks on the global economy
Economic Research Forum, Egypt, 2013How do oil-price shocks affect real output, inflation, the real effective exchange rates, interest rates, and equity prices in different countries, including major oil exporters? The current paper investigates the macroeconomic effects of oil-supply and oil-demand shocks.DocumentThe limited promise of agricultural trade liberalization
Research and Information System for Developing Countries, 2009It has become an article of faith in international trade negotiations that farmers in developing countries have much to gain from agricultural trade liberalisation. This paper assesses the evidence for such claims. It concludes that the promise of agricultural trade liberalisation is overstated, while the costs to small-scale farmers in developing countries are often very high.DocumentPolicies for industrial learning in China and Mexico
Research and Information System for Developing Countries, 2009Previous work has shown that the results of both China and Mexico’s export-led market reforms over the past quarter century have been strikingly different. In contrast to China, Mexico has not managed to increase the value added of its exports of manufactured goods and has subsequently had a difficult time competing with China in world markets.DocumentIndia’s outward foreign direct investments in steel industry in a Chinese comparative perspective
Research and Information System for Developing Countries, 2009Indian and Chinese enterprises have emerged as important outward investors in recent times with their involvement in a number of prominent Greenfield investments and acquisitions.DocumentAccess to finance: microfinance innovations in the People's Republic of China
Asian Development Bank, 2015From the early 1990s to 2005, the People’s Republic of China (PRC) used a top–down approach to rural finance and microfinance reform and development. The top level policy issues were largely the focus and market issues at the micro level received little attention. This approach could not have sustainable results.DocumentWin win partnership? China, Southern Africa and extractive industries
Southern African Resource Watch, 2012The 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.DocumentGeographical indications at the WTO: an unfinished agenda
Research and Information System for Developing Countries, 2010Over the recent past, Geographical Indication (GI) has emerged as one of the most contentious categories of intellectual property (IP). Two among the three TRIPS issues presently under discussion at the WTO pertain to GIs, the third being the relationship between the TRIPS and the CBD.DocumentChina's position on the Sony attack
U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, 2015In late November 2014, Sony Pictures Entertainment confirmed it was the victim of a cyber attack that crippled its networks and stole large quantities of personal and commercial data. On December 19, the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) publicly identified North Korea as responsible for these crimes.Pages
