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    Trade in high technology products trends and policy imperatives for BRICS

    Research and Information System for Developing Countries, 2017
    The rise and relevance of BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) cannot be overstated. BRICS constitutes  the  most  prominent  emerging economies with substantial influence on world affairs – both political and economic.
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    The BRICS in an age of multipolarity: sustaining strategic partnerships under difficult economic conditions

    Institute for Global Dialogue, South Africa, 2017
    Culminating in the formation of the New Development Bank (NDB), which was inaugurated at the Ufa Summit in 2015, the influence of the BRICS countries has now clearly gone beyond the economic arena, with the grouping evolving into a vital multilateral cooperation mechanism including Europe, Asia, Africa and Latin America,with the potential to bring new vitality and momentum for global growth.
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    Foreign investment promotion and domestic protection: a balancing act

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2016
    South Africa has experienced sluggish economic growth over the last four years. Real gross domestic product (GDP) growth has fallen steadily since 2011, and was down to 1.4% in 2015 and was predicted to drop by another 0.1% in 2016.
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    Deepening trade and investment relations post-AGOA: three options for South Africa

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2016
    As the US and Africa look to engage at the 2016 annual African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) Forum under the theme of ‘Maximizing AGOA Now While Preparing for the Future beyond AGOA’, two pertinent issues come to the fore: leveraging AGOA until this programme of trade benefits expires in 2025, and considering the nature of trade relations post-AGOA.
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    Chinese presence in real estate in South Africa and Mauritius

    Centre for Chinese Studies, University of Stellenbosch, 2016
    ­­­China has recently taken the global community by surprise with a surging interest in overseas real estate investment.
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    Drivers of regional integration: value chains, investment and new forms of co-operation

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2015
    This collection of papers is a combined initiative of Economic Policy Forum (EPF) member think tanks and is the result of two round-table discussions under the Regional Integration research stream.
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    Penetrating the Asian market: a case study of trade barriers for South African exporters into Indonesia

    Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies, South Africa, 2015
    Since 2007, Asia has been the main trading partner for South Africa, in terms of total merchandised trade. Asia has been an important export market for South Africa’s trade-induced industrialisation strategy.
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    Social programmes and job promotion for the BRICS Youth

    International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2014
    Besides scaling up and improving the operationalisation of the initiatives designed to offer credit, work opportunities and vocational training to the youth, the BRICS nations, like all the nations of the globe, are faced with the pressing duty of finding means of including the youth productively in the labour market, in ways that genuinely represent the ambitions of this stage in the lifecycle
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    Shifting power reader: critical perspectives on emerging economies

    Transnational Institute, 2014
    Does the emergence of a multipolar global order open up policy space for alternative economic visions and pose a necessary challenge to a US and Northern-dominated global order? Or might it instead reinvigorate capitalism and exploitation by a new constellation of corporate elites?
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    BRICS: a global trade power in a multi-polar world

    Transnational Institute, 2014
    Central to the narrative of emerging powers, and particularly the BRICS, is the issue of trade, as both the driver of their economic surge, the factor behind their growing economies and the platform it has given them to assert influence in global governance.

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