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    Making AGOA Work for Africa

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2015
    The African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) offers duty-free access to the largest market in the world, and has the potential to be a major driving force in African development. Thus far, however, it has failed to live up to its potential.
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    What drives the global land rush?

    Economic Research Forum, Egypt, 2011
    Recent increases in the level of agricultural commodity prices and the resulting demand for land has been accompanied by a rising interest in acquiring agricultural land by investors. This paper studies the determinants of foreign land acquisition for large-scale agriculture.
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    Regulating traffic to reduce air pollution in greater Cairo, Egypt

    Economic Research Forum, Egypt, 2011
    Automobile emissions in Greater Cairo are considered the main source of local air pollution. This paper examines transport mode choices and tries to evaluate the impact of traffic regulation on reducing suspended particulate matter (PM10).
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    EurAfrique? Africa and Europe in a new century: policy brief

    Centre for Conflict Resolution, University of Cape Town (UCT), 2007
    The Centre for Conflict Resolution (CCR), Cape Town, South Africa, and the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (FES) office in Maputo, Mozambique, held a policy advisory group meeting in Cape Town on 31 October and 1 November 2007 on the theme, “EurAfrique? Africa and Europe in a New Century”.
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    Taming the dragon? Defining Africa's interests at the Forum on China-Africa Co-operation (FOCAC): policy brief

    Centre for Conflict Resolution, University of Cape Town (UCT), 2009
    China is already an increasingly influential actor in future international relations, as its economy and geo-political interests continue to expand. African countries will continue to be important to Beijing, as China’s phenomenal economic growth is likely to increase its demand for Africa’s strategic resources, notwithstanding the global financial crisis of 2008/2009.
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    Peacebuilding in post-Cold War Africa: problems, progress, and prospects

    Centre for Conflict Resolution, University of Cape Town (UCT), 2011
    The Centre for Conflict Resolution (CCR), Cape Town; the Centre for Strategic Studies (CSS), University of Botswana; and the Centre of African Studies (CAS) at the University of Cambridge co-hosted a research and policy seminar in Gaborone, Botswana August 2009 on the theme “Peacebuilding in Africa”.
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    Adedeji at 80: moving Africa from rhetoric to Action: policy brief

    Centre for Conflict Resolution, University of Cape Town (UCT), 2011
    This CCR policy brief is based on a high-level Millennium Symposium held by the Nigeria-based African Centre for Development and Strategic Studies (ACDESS), in December 2010 in Ijebu-Ode, Nigeria.
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    HIV/AIDS and militaries in Africa: policy brief

    Centre for Conflict Resolution, University of Cape Town (UCT), 2011
    An estimated 22.5 million people in sub-Saharan Africa were living with the human immuno-virus (HIV) that leads to acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) in 2009.
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    South Africa, Africa, and the United Nations Security Council: policy brief

    Centre for Conflict Resolution, University of Cape Town (UCT), 2011
    Although Africa has no permanent representation on the UN Security Council (having three rotating two-year seats), more than 60 percent of the Council’s deliberations are concerned with the continent.
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    Willingness to pay for improving land and water conditions for agriculture in Damietta, Egypt

    Economic Research Forum, Egypt, 2012
    The purpose of this study is to analyse the welfare effects of interventions aimed at mitigating poor agricultural soil and irrigation water conditions which have traditionally reduced farmer incomes in rural Damietta, Egypt.

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