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    Mega-regional trade agreements and South Africa’s trade strategy: implications for the Tripartite Free Trade Area negotiations

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2014
    In a world where the World Trade Organization (WTO) has lost much of its momentum, attention has been focused on regional and bilateral trade agreements. Two of these agreements are considered to be ‘mega-regional’ whereby groupings of the largest developed economies make declarations of co-operation and possible integration.
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    Building relationships in development cooperation: traditional donors and the rising powers

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2013
    Staff working in development agencies from traditional donor countries in the North need to be aware of the ways in which their actions are understood by their counterparts in the rising powers. Research reveals concerns amongst the rising powers over the historical baggage associated with Northern donor states.
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    The BRICS and the international development system: challenge and cnvergence

    2014
    The sustained growth of rising powers, including the grouping known as the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) is reshaping global governance arrangements. Annual BRICS summits and inter-ministerial meetings seek to reform existing international financial and economic institutions and promote a multipolar system of global order.
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    Brazil’s international development cooperation at a crossroads

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2014
    Brazil’s historic experience as an aid recipient, combined with the country’s relative lack of dependency on Northern funds to support its own development trajectory, has contributed to creating and sustaining a critical approach towards traditional aid.
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    Building mutual understanding for effective development

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2014
    In recent years a number of countries, referred to collectively as the rising powers, have achieved rapid economic growth and increased political influence. In many cases their experience challenges received wisdom on inclusive development. Research funded by traditional development donors has tended to focus on their own aid recipients.
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    Learning from India’s development cooperation

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2014
    In recent years, India has substantially increased the levels of its development cooperation. It has streamlined its development cooperation activities and put the principles of South-South Cooperation, including respect for national sovereignty, national ownership and independence, non-conditionality and
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    Will the BRICS provide the global public goods the world needs?

    Overseas Development Institute, 2014
    The demand for global economic governance is increasing in a globalising and increasingly interlinked economy. Yet global governance, a global public good, is currently undersupplied – and this (e.g. lack of global rules on trade, finance and emissions) is harming development.
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    Ethiopia and BRICS: a bilateral trade analysis

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2014
    Ethiopia is currently the 70th largest economy in the world. With an average gross domestic product (GDP) growth of about 9.9% between 2004 and 2011, it is one of the fastest growing economies in the world.
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    BRICS, mega-regional FTAs and South Africa’s trade strategy

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2014
    Global trade strategy does not seem to be an overriding imperative motivating the Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa (BRICS) grouping. More attention is paid to issues of local currency internationalisation interacting with accessing natural resource
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    BRICS in the World Trade Organization: comparative trade policies - Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2014
    In the light of the great uncertainties surrounding the current global political and economic situation, the role of emerging countries has been the focus of growing academic interest.

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