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    Working for development in Southern Africa: bridging the gap between government and business

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2011
    Since 1994 Southern Africa in particular has witnessed an expansion of South African corporate activity.
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    Dreaming out loud: implications of a Doha end-game for South Africa

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2011
    In November 2011, the Doha Round will be in its tenth year. Efforts continue in Geneva to conclude the negotiations but with no sign of agreement anytime soon. The talks have essentially been stuck since the last draft modalities of 2008, and no agreement seems close in the three key negotiating areas of agriculture, non-agricultural market access (NAMA) and services.
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    Services trade liberalisation and the role of the services sector in South African development

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2011
    South Africa’s 2010 Trade Policy and Strategy Framework (TPSF) document envisages a ‘strategic tariff policy’ in line with government’s major development objectives, key among which are employment creation and industrial development and restructuring.
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    Southern and Eastern Africa, the Doha agenda and aid for trade

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2008
    For many years, the link between trade and development has been recognised in a number of different contexts, including the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and the World Trade Organisation (WTO), as well as in some bilateral co-operation agreements such as that between the European Union (EU) and African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries. The exact nature of
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    South Africa's current account deficit: are proposed cures worse than the disease?

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2008
    Each time the domestic trade balance shows a deficit, the policy discussion becomes very emotional. Normally discussions are driven by a strong mercantilist bias: trade surpluses are seen as a benefit to the country and they are claimed to be caused by own competitiveness.
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    The non-tariff barrier monitoring mechanism

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2013
    The persistence of non-tariff barriers (NTBs) has been the subject of much of the recent discourse on regional integration in Southern and East Africa. In this context, there has been a lot of recommended approaches to dealing with the regional NTB challenge, a recent one is the NTB Monitoring Mechanism (NTB Mechanism).
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    The Southern African sugar sector

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2013
    The sugar industry has the potential to play a key developmental role in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region. The current paper illustrates that the sugar industry in Southern Africa is extensive, making up slightly more than half of the continent’s sugar production.
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    South Africa as Africa’s gateway: a perspective from business

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2012
    Recently, investors from emerging markets have joined companies from developed countries in establishing offices in South Africa with a
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    The BRICS fallacy

    Center for Strategic and International Studies, 2013
    Focus on the BRICS began in 2001. Back then, the group only included Brazil, Russia, India, and China (South Africa was added in 2010). It all started with a November 2001 Goldman Sachs research paper titled ‘‘Building Better Global Economic BRICs,’’ written by Jim O’Neill.
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    The India-Brazil-South Africa Forum a decade on: mismatched partners or the rise of the South?

    Global Economic Governance Programme, University College Oxford, 2013
    Gridlock in the Doha round of international trade negotiations in the WTO since 2001 has led developing countries to pursue different strategies to boost trade and investment among various partners.

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