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    Imagining South Africa’s Foreign Investment Regulatory Regime in a Global Context

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2015
    International trade and investment have been around for a long time. The quest for resources has manifested itself through trade and, as time evolved, has been realised through wars of conquest, friendship, commerce and navigation treaties, colonialism, gunboat diplomacy
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    The Contingent Reserve Arrangement: a redesign of the International Monetary System

    Research and Information System for Developing Countries, 2015
    The BRICS countries established the New Development Bank (NDB) and the Contingent Reserve (CRA) Arrangement at their sixth Summit at Fortaleza, Brazil on 15 July 2014. This policy brief examines the implications of the CRA both for the international monetary system (IMS) and how far it meets the needs of the individual BRICS countries. It looks at:
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    Reconfiguring international financial institutions: the BRICS Initiative

    Research and Information System for Developing Countries, 2015
    This paper examines the implications of the establishment of the New Development Bank (NDB) and the Contingent Reserve Arrangement (CRA) for the international financial system and for the BRICS countries.
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    Policy framework for Foreign Direct Investment promotion in South Africa: operations, effectiveness and Sustainability

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2015
    Foreign direct investment promotion in South Africa has expanded considerably in the two decades from 1995 to 2015. The investment promotion system is quite decentralised, with much of the work being carried out by provincial governments, albeit with support from Trade and Investment South Africa (TISA), a division of the Department of Trade and Industry.
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    Anticipating the South African tenure in the Chair of the G77: the context and contours

    Institute for Global Dialogue, South Africa, 2014
    South Africa has a precious opportunity to use the chairpersonship of the G77 to help transform the agency of the global south from making lofty undertakings to taking concrete measures to implement what has been agreed. It has the opportunity to strengthen the G77 secretariat by attracting more financial resources and ensuring sound and efficient management systems are in place.
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    Multilateral development cooperation: what does it mean for South Africa’s foreign policy?

    Institute for Global Dialogue, South Africa, 2013
    As South Africa looks to consolidate its approach towards international development cooperation, decision makers will be faced with new challenges in reconciling policy implementation with identified principles. In March 2013, the Institute for Global Dialogue (IGD) hosted a working roundtable focusing on multilateral development cooperation and South Africa’s foreign policy.
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    The Durban BRICS Summit: partnership for development and integration proceedings report

    Institute for Global Dialogue, South Africa, 2013
    The media hype and international attention that centered on Durban during the fifth BRICS Summit (26–27 March 2013) has faded.
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    Korea and South Africa: building a strategic partnership

    Institute for Global Dialogue, South Africa, 2009
    In an era of global financial crisis and shrinking economies, it has become more urgent and more important for South Africa’s foreign policy to focus on international engagements that produce clearly defined commercial advantage in the national interest.
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    South Africa in the transitioning multilateral development cooperation landscape

    Institute for Global Dialogue, South Africa, 2014
    Between 2006 and 2010, South Africa received an estimated R 200 million (US$ 22 million) from various Western governments and agencies through the United Nations Development Fund (UNDP). Yet about one fifth of the total sum of this Development Fund came from the government of South Africa itself. This scenario problematizes South Africa‟s dual identity.
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    South Africa and opportunities for trilateral development cooperation

    Institute for Global Dialogue, South Africa, 2014
    International development cooperation has traditionally been channeled from the geo-political North to the South, but developments in South-South cooperation and the appreciation of shared developmental experiences among developing countries is beginning to change the development cooperation landscape.

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