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    How the state and private sector can partner to boost support to SMEs: Lessons from Chile & Malaysia

    Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies, South Africa, 2012
    For South Africa, the promotion of small businesses remains key to creating jobs and a more equitable economy. Evidence from Chile and Malaysia – both countries with similar emerging economies as South Africa - reveals that by partnering to provide finance and business support, the government and the private sector can boost support to small businesses.
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    Tracking climate finance inflows to South Africa

    2013
    As most part of the continent, South Africa is particularly vulnerable to global warming owing to the low resilience to extreme climate events of a significant part of the population, already low and variable rainfall in large parts of the country, a substantial share of surface water resources being already fully allocated, and the centrality of agriculture and fisheries for food security and
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    The geographic designation of Special Economic Zones

    Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies, South Africa, 2014
    Special economic zones (SEZs) emerged internationally as a policy to support industrial development in particular by providing for the introduction of targeted incentives and infrastructure. Internationally, despite their name, they are often effectively delinked from specific geographic areas in order to achieve these aims.
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    Regional trading arrangements (RTAs) in the world and Asia: options for India

    Research and Information System for Developing Countries, 2005
    Regional trading arrangements (RTAs) and bilateral free trade agreements (FTAs) have become an important aspect of a country’s trade policy. Over 300 RTAs or FTAs are currently in different stages of negotiations. An overwhelming proportion of world trade is now conducted on preferential basis within the FTAs.
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    Regional cooperation for poverty alleviation and food security in Asia

    Research and Information System for Developing Countries, 2005
    ASEAN has undertaken several initiatives to address the social impact of the recent economic and financial crisis and to deal with the problem of poverty. Regional cooperation in human capital development focuses on the sharing of best practices in and capacity building for employment promotion, manpower planning, skills training, social monitoring, and design of emergency social safety nets.
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    Towards a new partnership: China in the SADC banking sector

    Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies, South Africa, 2008
    Sino-African relations have long been defined by projects and infrastructure development in sectors that are of strategic importance to the growth of the Chinese economy. These are projects that have typically ensured a steady supply of much needed resources and raw materials to Chinese industries. Chinese banks have, in turn, been involved in the financing of such projects.
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    China's evolving industrial policy strategies and instruments: lessons for development

    Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies, South Africa, 2010
    This paper argues that perspectives characterising the trajectory of China’s economic reforms as “reversing course” are misleading by not recognising the current stage of Chinese industrial development and the policy initiatives adopted to steer the country towards widely-stated national objectives.
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    South Africa’s developmental state makeover

    Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies, South Africa, 2010
    This paper highlights ten key features of the Developmental State (DS) growth model by contrasting economic and institutional trends between China (and East Asia more generally) and South Africa.
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    Rediscovering the role of developing countries in GATT before the Doha Round

    Research and Information System for Developing Countries, 2008
    At the launch of the Doha Round, developing countries were sceptical that the Round would address the issues of concern to developing countries. Their scepticism was based on their experience of past 8 rounds of the GATT that failed to adequately address the interests and concerns of developing countries.
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    Background paper: research and development and extension services in agriculture and food security

    Asian Development Bank, 2014
    This paper explores the role of applied research for development and extension services through the two-pronged approach of boosting food production and preventing losses. Priority areas for research emphasize attention to smallholder farming systems, practical business models, the integration of gender, and multidisciplinary research that is sensitive to nutritional outcomes.

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