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    The policy case for a tailor-made indicator of sustainable development for South Africa

    Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies, South Africa, 2012
    South Africa reflects many of the world’s sustainability problems. Gains from the rise in commodity prices and debt-fueled, consumption-led growth have masked issues such as rising costs and declining competitiveness of the economy.
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    An alternative perspective on the emigration of highly skilled people from South Africa

    Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies, South Africa, 2012
    Emigra¤tion of highly skilled people has become an increasing concern in South Africa in recent years. While it is uncontested that there has been skilled emigrati¤on from South Africa, reliable and up-to-date figures on the extent of this emigra¤on are not available.
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    Rape and other forms of sexual violence in South Africa

    Institute for Security Studies, 2014
    The high rate of rape and other forms of sexual violence in South Africa has sparked concern and outrage, leading to law reform, parliamentary debates, marches and campaigns. It has also led to a range of policy interventions intended to reduce the number of people who fall victim to these crimes.
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    Rape and other forms of sexual violence in South Africa

    Institute for Security Studies, 2014
    The high rate of rape and other forms of sexual violence in South Africa has sparked concern and outrage, leading to law reform, parliamentary debates, marches and campaigns. It has also led to a range of policy interventions intended to reduce the number of people who fall victim to these crimes.
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    The G-20 and development: ensuring greater African participation

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2014
    Although South Africa is the only African permanent member of the G-20 group of major economies, the G-20 regularly invites the chair of the African Union (AU) and a representative of the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) – usually the chair of the Heads of State and Government Orientation Committee – to attend its meetings.
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    Too poor to care?: the salience of aids in Africa

    Afrobarometer, 2011
    Sub-Saharan Africa is the part of the world that is most severely affected by HIV/AIDS, yet surveys of attitudes to AIDS across African countries show that most people do not attach great importance to the issue. The current paper argues that the salience of AIDS is low in Africa because many people are too poor to consider the disease important.
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    Information for a developmental approach to mitigation: Linking sectoral and economy wide models for Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Peru and South Africa

    Mitigation Action Plans and Scenarios, 2014
    This paper examines approaches for integrating sector- and economy-wide models, including socioeconomic factors, in five developing countries.
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    Sources of state legitimacy in contemporary South Africa: a theory of political goods

    Afrobarometer, 2011
    The question of the sources of state legitimacy is particularly pertinent in emerging democracies where trust in institutions is often shallow and the authority of the state remains contested. The current paper suggests that those who rate the state positively in providing personal security, political rights and a rule of law, are to be more likely to see the state as legitimate.
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    BRICS and South-South cooperation in medicine: emerging trends in research and entrepreneurial collaborations

    Research and Information System for Developing Countries, 2012
    Though there is huge spectrum of South-South collaboration, led by the economies from the BRICS countries in the medical field there is a lack of studies examining the extent and characteristics of these collaborations and evaluating their benefits.
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    The political participation of Africa’s youth: turnout, partisanship and protest

    Afrobarometer, 2011
    The youth have long represented an important constituency for electoral mobilisation in Africa, but very little is known about the political participation of Africa’s youth. The current paper focuses on different modes of political participation among the youth living in Africa’s more democratic regimes.

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