Tag: BRICS
Xi chairs summit to set course for next golden decade of BRICS
05 Sep 17 NewsChinese President Xi Jinping on Monday chaired the ninth BRICS summit, calling on the group of five emerging economies to intensify cooperation and contribute more to a world troub...
Africa hopes to become new growth pole through cooperation with BRICS
05 Sep 17 NewsAfrican leaders said at the BRICS Business Forum that ended in Xiamen on Monday that the continent hopes to become a new growth pole through cooperation with BRICS countries, namel...
Ninth BRICS Leaders’ Summit: Xiamen Declaration
05 Sep 17 NewsExtract from the Xiamen Declaration
Adopted at the Ninth BRICS Leaders’ Summit on 4 September 2017
We, the Leaders of the Federative Republic of Brazil, the Russian Federat...
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30 Aug 17 NewsInternational trade statistics: Continued, albeit slower, G20 merchandise trade growth in Q2 2017 (OECD)
G20 international merchandise trade (seasonally adjusted and expressed in ...
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24 Aug 17 NewsToday’s trade policy tweets:
(i) Nigeria’s chief trade negotiator, Ambassador Chiedu Osakwe, @ChieduOsakwe1: Tough negotiations at the CFTA, but the gains when concluded wi...
7th Meeting of BRICS Trade Ministers: Annexes to the Joint Statement
23 Aug 17 NewsThe 7th meeting of BRICS Trade Ministers under the Chinese presidency was held in Shanghai on 1-2 August 2017. The Ministers reviewed the progress made in BRICS economic, trad...
7th Meeting of the BRICS Trade Ministers: Joint Statement
23 Aug 17 NewsThe seventh meeting of the BRICS Ministers of Trade was held in Shanghai, People’s Republic of China, on the 1-2 August 2017.
The establishment of the BRICS e-port network, e-co...
“A historic day”, says Zuma at launch of BRICS Bank African unit
21 Aug 17 NewsThe African Regional Centre of the New Development Bank (NDB) was launched by South African President Jacob Zuma on Thursday in Johannesburg.
The African Regional Center will allo...
Trade, investment tops BRICS Ministers’ meeting
03 Aug 17 NewsIssues related to trade and investment promotion were discussed at the 7th meeting of the BRICS Ministers of Trade in China.
“The Trade Ministers established collaborative mecha...
Protectionism threat to global trade: BRICS
02 Aug 17 NewsTrade ministers from the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) discussed trade facilitation, economic and technological cooperation, and the multilateral trade syst...
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31 Jul 17 NewsUganda Bureau of Statistics: Imports exports by region and country of origin, 2011 – 2016
South Africa: June 2017 trade surplus (SARS)
The R10.67bn trade balance surplus for Ju...
BRICS countries: Emerging players in global services trade
31 Jul 17 NewsBRICS countries – Brazil, the Russian Federation, India, China, and South Africa – have emerged as important players in global services trade in the past decade. BRICS services...
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26 Jul 17 NewsConcluding today, in Addis: AU Specialized Technical Committee on Transport, Trans-Regional and Interregional Infrastructure, Energy and Tourism
Next week, in Shanghai: BRICS trad...
Monitoring Regional Integration in Southern Africa Yearbook 2015/2016
03 Jul 17 PublicationsRegional integration continues to enjoy strong political support in Africa. But the winds of change blowing in the global economy are being felt on the continent too. It is clear t...
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26 Jun 17 NewsKenya: Draft Investment Policy (GoK)
Up to now, Kenya has not had a single and clearly defined policy solely focusing on investment generation and retention. The Government of Ken...
African Development Bank calls for investment in Africa’s future at 52nd Annual Meetings
23 May 17 NewsThe 52nd African Development Bank (AfDB) Annual Meetings open today in Ahmedabad, India, calling on the need for increased investment in the development of African continent a...
BRIC-Africa trade – is it all about China’s trade with South Africa?
18 May 17 PublicationsIn the past two decades, Brazil, Russia, India and China (BRIC) have had growing trade and political relations with Africa and South Africa (SA) culminating in the formalisation of...
Brics bank at advanced stage
05 May 17 NewsPlans to set up the Africa Regional Centre of the New Development Bank (NDB), formerly referred to as the Brics Bank, are at an advanced stage, Minister of International Relations ...
‘Brics Plus’ can be new model of integration
18 Apr 17 NewsThe expansion of Brics, known as “Brics Plus”, could become a new model of integration in the global economy, chief economist of the Eurasian Development Bank Yaroslav Lissovol...
S&P sees ‘better’ growth in BRICS in 2017
20 Mar 17 NewsRatings agency S&P Global Ratings (S&P) expects better economic growth in BRICS countries this year as Brazil and Russia recover from recessions, India and South Africa imp...