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  Traditional and emerging partners’ role in African regional economic integration: issues and recommendations

  South African Institute of International Affairs, 2013

  Regional integration in Africa is still an active agenda item for African nations and pan-African institutions such as the African Union. Regional integration is motivated by the need for larger markets in order to grow trade and investment.
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  The economic engagement footprint of rising powers in sub-Saharan Africa: an analysis of trade, foreign direct investment and aid flows

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2013

  Rising powers such as Brazil, China, India, South Africa, the Gulf states or Turkey have entered the development arena through their expanding relationships with low-income countries (LICs) . A widespread perception is that these countries are establishing new forms of engagement, mainly under a South–South cooperation framework.
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  What next for the BRICS Bank?

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2013

  A new development bank to be created by the ‘Rising Powers’ of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS) is intended to promote greater cooperation between developing countries, and address what is seen by many as a history of misguidance and underinvestment by the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
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  Mobilizing climate investment: the role of international climate finance in creating scaled-up low-carbon energy

  2013

  It is estimated that developing countries need US$ 531 billion per year additional investment in energy supply and demand technologies, between now and 2050, in order to limit global temperature rise to two degrees above pre-industrial levels.
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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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  Poverty transitions among older households in Brazil and South Africa

  Brooks World Poverty Institute, University of Manchester, 2011

  The knowledge gap relating to the dynamics of wellbeing and poverty among older households
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  Beyond the BICs: identifying the ‘emerging middle powers’ and understanding their role in global poverty reduction

  Brooks World Poverty Institute, University of Manchester, 2010

  Much attention has been focused on the BICs (Brazil, India and China) and how they are changing global politics and economics. However, there is also a further tier of emerging middle powers ‘beyond the BICs’ that are playing a more prominent role in regional and global arenas.
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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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  An analysis of inflation from a central banking perspective: the South African experience since 1921

  School of Development Studies, University of Kwazulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa, 2008

  This paper states that the problem of inflation in South Africa has occurred in different forms and has occupied the attention of monetary authorities over many years. The paper deems that inappropriate economic policy and monetary policy in particular, contributed to conditions conducive for the development of inflationary conditions.
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  Banking on Africa: Chinese financial institutions and Africa

  South African Institute of International Affairs, 2008

  The Chinese drive into the resource sector in Africa has already received much attention in the media and academic literature. What has not been well understood is the role of Chinese financial institutions in support of the country’s resource strategy and its entry into the previously unknown African market.

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