Tag: BRICS

The 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...

In 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...

Plans 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 ...

The 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...

Ratings 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...

Single window for trade facilitation to be taken up BRICS nations will soon consider a proposal to frame ‘guiding principles’ for investment policymaking to boost investment...

Senior BRICS country diplomats voiced support on Friday for China’s call for boosting free trade and opposing protectionism as emerging markets work together to inject power into...

Underway in Walvis Bay: African Corridor Management Alliance launch (@snkaringi). Tweet by @heiniesuo: Inaugural meeting of #African #Corridor #Management #Alliance: "We need a con...

Ahead of the AU Summit later this month: commentaries by two candidates for the position of African Union Commission Chairperson Senegal’s Abdoulaye Bathily: ‘Africa has no fu...

International trade and the global economy have undergone significant changes in recent years as a result of improved technology, a shift towards trade in services, and increasing ...

This Trade Brief documents the trading relationship between South Africa and India from 2006 to 2015. The analysis uses UNCOMTRADE data sourced from the International Trade Ce...

Willemien Viljoen, tralac Researcher, discusses the potential implications of MoUs between India and South Africa on pigeon peas, persimmons, mangoes and pork products for local ex...

In today’s globalised world, production processes have been split up and different parts of production relocated around the world. Global value chains (GVCs) are now attributed t...

The main feature of global trade since at least 2000 has been the relentless rise of exports from the BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India and China) and, in particular, China. Mu...

Until mid-November 2013 it was not possible to accurately assess the profile of South Africa’s agricultural trade. It was only at that date that the South African Revenue Service...

The objective of this paper* is to examine the West and Central African (WCA) trade profile, with some reference to the trading relationship with China and the agricultural trade p...

DIRCO and ACCORD Public lecture delivered by the Deputy Minister of International Relations and Cooperation, Mr Luwellyn Landers, at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, Howard Co...

Recent tralac research has shown that since 2001 Africa’s overall trade with the old friends (the United States and the European Union in particular) has dramatically declined wh...