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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 and the Durban climate change negotiations: the role of business

    Institute for Global Dialogue, South Africa, 2012
    Business engagements in COP 17 were informed by past, present and future predictions with regard to movements in the climate negotiations space. The call to have business involved in climate change negotiations can be traced to the G8 Gleneagles Summit of 2005. The G8 Summit drew up the Gleneagles Plan of Action on Climate Change, Clean Energy and Sustainable Development.
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    G20, development and global governence: an assessment

    Institute for Global Dialogue, South Africa, 2012
    Since its founding at the end of the 1990s, the G20 has achieved progressively higher visibility in the evolving architecture of global governance, most recently taking a leading role in the management of the global financial crisis of 2008 and in managing policy coordination to mitigate the major recession that followed.
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    South Africa: between regional integration and trade multilateralism

    Institute for Global Dialogue, South Africa, 2014
    Global trade is conducted through engagements bilaterally, regionally and inter - regionally and multilaterally. The most widely inclusive process is multilateralism, defined by the World Trade Organisation (WTO) as a system „to help trade flow as freely as possible‟ and set out as its objective.
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    The prospects of South Africa’s engagement with ASEAN countries

    Institute for Global Dialogue, South Africa, 2014
     According to the South African draft White Paper on Foreign Policy "Building a better world: the diplomacy of ubuntu", the Asian continent is of increasing importance to South Africa and Africa.
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    Africa-Brazil relations in the context of global changes

    Institute for Global Dialogue, South Africa, 2014
    Relations between Africa and Brazil date back to the era of slave trade in which many African slaves were settled in Brazil and other parts of Latin America and the Caribbean Island. Due to the historical experience of slave trade, the African dimension remains very robust and apparent in Brazil, through genetic, cultural  and linguistic legacy.
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    Technical regulations and trade: implications for regional integration

    Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies, South Africa, 2015
    Technical regulations lay down compulsory requirements for product or service characteristics or their related processes and production methods. They have specific administrative provisions and conformity assessment requirements with which compliance is mandatory for safety, health, environmental control and consumer protection.
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    Making economic corridors work for the agricultural sector

    Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2014
    In times of economic crisis, development models that help create jobs, generate wealth, mobilise public and private resources and stimulate key economic sectors sustainably are more important than ever. While there are no universal solutions, a development tool that seems to be gaining ground is the so-called “economic corridor”.
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    Confronting the ‘oil curse’: state–civil society roles in managing Ghana’s oil find

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2015
    Ghana discovered large oil deposits at Cape Three Points, on its western coast, in 2007.With the discovery of additional oil it is anticipated that the oil sector will significantly boost the economy, which in turn will have a positive developmental impact.
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    Developing economic corridors in South Asia

    Asian Development Bank, 2015
    Unlike in East and South East Asia, the manufacturing sector has underperformed in South Asia due to various constraints, which, if addressed effectively, can unlock untapped economic potential of the young demographics of South Asia. This is one of the key policy thrusts of the governments in the region.

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