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    Promoting fnancial inclusion for inclusive growth in Africa

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2015
    Financial inclusion is central to economic empowerment in rural communities, as it forms the foundation for the sustainable economic development of the less privileged in society. By engaging in economic activities where goods and services are traded for cash, people become part of economic clusters.
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    India-Japan economic partnership agreement: gains and future prospects

    Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi, 2014
    Economic relations between India and Japan have improved in recent years. The signing in February 2011 of the India-Japan Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) Ehas further enhanced bilateral trade and investment relations between the two Asian giants.
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    The impact of export processing zones on employment, wages and labour conditions in developing countries

    International Initiative for Impact Evaluation, 2014
    Export processing zones (EPZs), also called free trade zones, are one of the most common instruments of industrial policy in developed and developing countries. Despite their proliferation and spread across all countries in the world, there is little evidence about the impact that EPZs have on employment and wages.
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    Economic challenges for the new government: suggestions for policy formulation

    Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi, 2009
    This paper discusses economic opportunities for India in the context of the new government taking power in May 2009. An important imperative for the new government would be to revive business confidence and optimism. The key to economic revival is as much in restoring public and corporate confidence as it is in targeted fiscal stimulus.
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    EurAfrique? Africa and Europe in a new century: seminar report

    Centre for Conflict Resolution, University of Cape Town (UCT), 2008
    This report examines the relationship between Africa and Europe in the 21st Century, and investigates whether this relationship is one of habit or is of real strategic importance to both parties.
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    Crouching tiger, hidden dragon? China and Africa: engaging the world's next superpower

    Centre for Conflict Resolution, University of Cape Town (UCT), 2007
    Chinese trade and assistance to Africa resumed markedly at the end of the Cold War and has grown exponentially since. China’s pragmatic policy focus on economic issues in Africa has been met with rising concern by other powers, notably the United States and European countries such as France, which have had to reassess their relations with the continent as a result.
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    Development Banks from the BRICS

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2015
    The BRIC acronym was created at the beginning of the 2000s to represent a group of four fast-growing economies –Brazil, Russia, India and China – and was changed to BRICS in December 2010 with the inclusion of South Africa.
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    Making AGOA Work for Africa

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2015
    The African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) offers duty-free access to the largest market in the world, and has the potential to be a major driving force in African development. Thus far, however, it has failed to live up to its potential.
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    EurAfrique? Africa and Europe in a new century: policy brief

    Centre for Conflict Resolution, University of Cape Town (UCT), 2007
    The Centre for Conflict Resolution (CCR), Cape Town, South Africa, and the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (FES) office in Maputo, Mozambique, held a policy advisory group meeting in Cape Town on 31 October and 1 November 2007 on the theme, “EurAfrique? Africa and Europe in a New Century”.
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    Taming the dragon? Defining Africa's interests at the Forum on China-Africa Co-operation (FOCAC): policy brief

    Centre for Conflict Resolution, University of Cape Town (UCT), 2009
    China is already an increasingly influential actor in future international relations, as its economy and geo-political interests continue to expand. African countries will continue to be important to Beijing, as China’s phenomenal economic growth is likely to increase its demand for Africa’s strategic resources, notwithstanding the global financial crisis of 2008/2009.

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