Tag: BRICS
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19 Jul 18 NewsA preview: SADC Industrialisation Week (30 July - 1 August, Windhoek) on the theme of Promoting infrastructure and youth empowerment for sustainable development. Register her...
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05 Jul 18 NewsPromoting the AU Reform Agenda: An Extra-ordinary AU Summit has been called for 17-18 November
Released, today in Abuja: Independent analysis of the potential benefits of the AfCF...
8th Meeting of the BRICS Trade Ministers: Joint Communiqué
05 Jul 18 News Joint Communiqué
The 8th BRICS Trade Ministers met on 5 July 2018 in Magaliesburg, South Africa under the chairmanship of Dr Rob Davies, Minister of Trade and Industry ...
BRICS Trade Ministers commit to multilaterism
05 Jul 18 NewsBRICS Trade Ministers have affirmed their commitment to a multilateral trading system as a tool to promote greater inclusivity.
“Unilateralism is now placing the future of the m...
Fourth Industrial Revolution a step closer
04 Jul 18 NewsIndustry Ministers from BRICS countries on Wednesday, 4 July, 2018 signed a Declaration on the implementation of the Digital Industrial Revolution (DIR).
The Ministers met at the ...
Declaration of the BRICS Industry Ministers’ Meeting
04 Jul 18 NewsTrade Ministers resolve to establish BRICS partnership on New Industrial Revolution
the dti hosted the third BRICS Industry Ministers’ Meeting in Magaliesburg on Wednesday, 4 Ju...
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02 Jul 18 NewsBRICS Industry and Trade ministers meet this week in South Africa (4 and 5 July, respectively, pdf)
Diarise: Launch of the AUC’s inaugural African Development Dynamics Report (1...
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29 Jun 18 NewsA reminder that the SACU Heads of State Summit took place today in Gaborone. SA’s President Ramaphosa will be accompanied by the Minister of Trade and Industry, Dr Rob Davies, an...
BRICS in Africa: Working towards the realisation of the African aspirations
29 Jun 18 NewsSpeech by Deputy Minister of International Relations and Cooperation, Ms Reginah Mhaule, during the BRICS Stakeholder Engagement held on 27 June 2018 in partnership with ...
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26 Jun 18 NewsNext month’s BRICS Summit: preview by Standard Bank’s Jeremy Stevens
South Africa will host the 10th annual summit of the Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa group. ...
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22 Jun 18 NewsFeatured tweet, @SongweVera: Africa badly needs a common platform for intellectual property rights. In 2008, 10 million apps downloaded from the Apple Store; in 2018, 180 billion a...
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01 Jun 18 NewsAfrica, global passenger traffic data for April 2018 (IATA)
African airlines’ had a 5.1% traffic increase in April. Capacity rose 4.6%, and load factor edged up 0.4 percentage p...
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05 Feb 18 NewsFeatured infographic, @justchad_cga: Over half of oranges traded globally are sourced from Africa – who would have thought!! Extract from latest USDA Foreign Agriculture Services...
Africa’s greatest economic opportunity: trading with itself
22 Jan 18 NewsChanges in today’s global landscape mean emerging markets must consider how they shape their own futures.
Many countries in the developed world have focused their efforts and re...
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05 Sep 17 NewsProfiled African trade, regional integration, infrastructure events:
(i) Update on the outcome of third meeting of the CFTA Technical Working Groups (20 August – 1 September, Du...
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...
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...
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...
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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...