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    Rising Powers in International Development: an annotated bibliography

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2013
    The Rising Powers – a category that includes the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) as well as other key countries such as Mexico, Turkey and Indonesia – are establishing themselves as an influential presence in the global development landscape, and playing an increasingly important role in shaping prospects for poverty reduction in lowincome countries.
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    India-east Africa ties: mapping new frontiers

    India-Africa Connect, 2009
    This edition of ‘Africa Quarterly – Indian Journal of African Affairs’ delves into India’s engagement with east Africa in all its myriad dimensions. The contributions to the journal take a critical look at areas and issues that need to be addressed, if the India-Africa relationship is to flourish to its full potential.
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    Rising regional powers and international institutions: the foreign policy orientations of India, Brazil and South Africa

    International Studies Association, 2011
    Whilst rising powers from the South emerge as key players in international politics, they confront a highly institutionalised world order established and maintained by and for the United States and its allies. Traditional perspectives identify three major patterns of behaviour for rising powers in international institutions: balancing, spoiling, and being co-opted.
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    Africa’s Silk Road: China and India’s new economics frontier

    World Bank, 2007
    This report finds that Asian trade and investment in Africa hold great promise for Africa’s economic growth and development – provided certain policy reforms on both continents are implemented. It provides systematic empirical evidence on how the two emerging economic giants of Asia – China and India – now stand at the crossroads of the explosion of African-Asian trade and investment.
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    The ICT Landscape in BRICS Countries: Brazil, India, China

    Directorate-General for Research - European Commission, 2012
    BRIC countires are becoming major players as producers of ICT goods and services.The aim of this report is to take a closer look at the ICTs landscape in BRICS countries Brazil, India and China. It documents the size of the ICT sector for each of the three countries covered and assesses their R&D expenditures.
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    Trade and climate change: policy and economic implications for South Africa

    Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies, South Africa, 2011
    This paper is a scoping assessment of the inter-relationship between international trade and climate change negotiations as it affects policy development in South Africa. The paper highlights two key variants of measures that pose a challenge to both these negotiations, specifically border carbon adjustments and the liberalisation of trade in environmental goods and services.
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    Globalisation and employment: working for the poor?: id21 insights, issue 47

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003
    Globalisation is one of the most controversial development issues of the day. ‘Globaphobes’ attribute most of the ills of the world to globalisation. The anti-globalisation movement has focused attention on the extent to which decisions affecting the lives of millions of the world’s poorest people are made in international fora – at which the poor have no voice.
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    Using TRIPS flexibilities to improve access to HIV treatment

    Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, 2011
    This policy brief describes how the flexibilities contained in the Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) Agreement and reaffirmed by the Doha Declaration provide important opportunities for World Trade Organization (WTO) Members to reduce prices and expand access to HIV medicines.
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    South Africa and Chile - agricultural trade relationship

    National Agricultural Marketing Council, South Africa, 2010
    The objective of this paper is to uncover areas where South Africa could potentially increase its trade with Chile and what policy lessons can be taken from the Chilean experience. The paper indicates that South Africa and Chile followed similar paths in terms of the evolution of their agricultural policy, where both countries underwent significant liberalisation in their agricultural sectors.
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    South Africa’s way ahead: shall we samba?

    Trade Law Centre for Southern Africa, 2010
    This publication examines the trading implications of extending the current preferential trading agreement (PTA) between the Southern African Custom Union (SACU) and MERCOSUR to a full free trade agreement (FTA).

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