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    China's economic rise: history, trends, challenges, and implications for the United States

    Federation of American Scientists, 2014
    Some economists forecast that China will overtake the United States as the world’s largest economy within a few years. China’s economic rise has significant implications for the United States and hence is of major interest to Congress. On the one hand, China is a large (and potentially huge) export market for the United States. Many U.S.
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    South Africa and China: the making of a partnership

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2014
    South Africa–China relations are developing at a steady pace, from the onset of formal diplomatic ties in 1998 to the multi-faceted partnership we see today. Its various elements include historical links, diplomatic relations, multilateral co-operation, trade and investment, and public media engagement.
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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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    China's engagement in Africa: responding to growing tensions and contradictions

    BRICS Policy Center / Centro de Estudos e Pesquisas BRICS, 2013
    China’s involvement in Africa goes back more than fifty years. However, over the past decade or so its presence on the continent has been growing at a remarkable rate. Since 2000, China-Africa trade has increased twenty-fold, and Chinese direct investment in Africa more than thirty-fold.
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    Solidarity among brothers? Brazil in Africa: trade, investment and cooperation

    BRICS Policy Center / Centro de Estudos e Pesquisas BRICS, 2014
    South-South cooperation (SSC) emerged as a key Brazilian foreign policy instrument in the beginning of Lula’s presidency in 2003 and has generally been sustained by the government of President Dilma Rousseff. From the beginning, Brazil has emphasized SSC in Africa despite not having articulated an explicit foreign policy towards the region.
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    The development implications of the fracking revolution

    Overseas Development Institute, 2014
    A larger number of countries are exposed to a potential trade shock emerging from a change in US oil imports including Angola, Congo, and Nigeria. An increase in fracking in China with the same size in the trade shock would double the effect. The total estimated effects from a reduction in US oil imports from African countries amount to US$32 billion.
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    Connecting Brazil to the world: a path to inclusive growth

    McKinsey Global Institute, 2014
    As Brazil steps into the international spotlight as host of the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Olympics, it is also celebrating a quarter century of democracy and political stability. The nation’s official poverty rate has been cut by half since 2003.
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    Challenging development cooperation? A literature review of the approaches of the emerging powers

    Research Institute for Work and Society, KU Leuven, 2013
    Looking at existing literature, this paper discusses the major ways in which the emerging powers, in this isnstance Brazil, India, China and South Africa (the BICS) are challenging the development cooperation policies and practices of the ‘tradition’ development actors. The author highlights ten ways in which the BICS are are challenging development cooperation:

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