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    What does the future hold for SACU? From own goal to Laduma! Scenarios for the future of the Southern African Customs Union

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2010
    A group of Southern African Customs Union (SACU) experts and interested parties recently participated in a scenario-planning exercise on the future of SACU. This paper gives an account of the scenarios developed, which range from SACU collapsing to a scenario where it deepens into a common market.
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    Banking in Nigeria and Chinese economic diplomacy in Africa

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2010
    While Sino–Nigerian relations have grown significantly since the 1970s, several aspects of the relationship have been controversial and difficult. However, the special attraction the two countries hold for each other has made the relationship persist, even amid difficulties and challenges.
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    Trade, industrial policy and exchange rates in South Africa

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2010
    South Africa’s trade, industrial and exchange rate policies have been the subject of substantial public debate in recent months, not least owing to the impact of the 2008–10 global financial crisis.
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    SACU - one hundred not out: what future for the Customs Union?

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2010
    This paper is based on research conducted recently in South Africa (SA), Namibia, Angola and Botswana. Policy and decision makers were asked to complete a questionnaire about the future of the Southern African Customs Union (SACU). Although the responses to the questionnaire were low, the interaction with respondents was of a high quality.
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    An overview of the carbon trading landscape: possibilities and pitfalls for South Africa

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2010
    In order to meet its international and domestic carbon emissions requirements, South Africa needs to substantially rethink its current energy and industrial trajectories. This represents a massive challenge for any country with such a high dependence on coal as part of its energy mix – especially in light of retaining its global competitiveness and maintaining its economic growth.
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    Chinese debt, aid and trade: opportunity or threat for Zambia?

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2011
    The ripple effects of China’s economic ascendance over the past two decades have reached various aspects of the global economy. It cannot be ignored by countries such as Zambia, where this growing influence is strongly felt in the country’s social, economic and political economy.
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    China's overseas foreign direct investment risk: 2008–2009

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2011
    Since the implementation of its ‘going-out’ strategy, China’s outward foreign direct investment (FDI) has experienced a rapid development, which has already become an important part of its overseas interests.
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    Africa and the geopolitics of the Indian Ocean

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2011
    Throughout the history of the Indian Ocean, littoral, island and extra-regional states have vied to secure their trade routes, which in turn affects Africa. By reviewing the stakeholders’ dynamics in the Indian Ocean, the implications and challenges for Africa can be analysed.
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    Cumulative costs of trade protection in the South African economy

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2011
    Powerful theoretical reasoning and overwhelming empirical evidence demonstrate that protectionism, being selective and economically distortive, is to the disadvantage of the very country behaving in a protectionist fashion. Although the protected industries can gain from trade protection measures, other industries may suffer severely.
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    International trade and emerging markets since the crisis

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2011
    The global economic crisis has sparked the short-term divergence of economic performance between the West and emerging markets, thereby accelerating their convergence in the long-run, and is particularly evident in globalising Asia. Governments’ responses to the biggest deglobalisation since the Great Depression did not precipitate a descent into 1930s-style protectionism.

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