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Africa must boost commodity-based industrialization to grow economy, end poverty, says ERA 2013
28 Mar 2013African countries have an opportunity to transform their economies through a commodity-based industrialization strategy that leverages the continent’s abundant resources, current...
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BRICS membership opens opportunities
26 Mar 2013This week the heads of state of four of the largest economies in the world – collectively representing a fifth of global gross domestic product (GDP) – arrive in Durban for the...
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SA in BRICS – Are we making the most of it?
15 Mar 2013The BRICS bloc wants deeper trade and investment ties to underpin its alliance. Troye Lund assesses whether the five members have moved beyond being a loose political gro...
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EAC states not ready for TRIPS, ask for extension
07 Mar 2013The East African Community (EAC) partner states should ask the World Trade Organisation to unconditionally accord the Least Developed Group (LDC) an extension of the transition per...
read moreEU backs new transparency standards for investor-state dispute settlement
15 Feb 2013The European Union supported new United Nations rules for greater transparency in disputes between investors and host countries.
On Friday 8 February a United Nations Working Grou...
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State of the EAC: Bureaucratic delays, missed targets hurt integration
10 Dec 2012The decision by East African presidents on Friday, 30 November 2012 to postpone key issues – mainly the Monetary Union and admission of South Sudan and Somalia to the bloc – ha...
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Africa can feed itself, earn billions, and avoid food crises by unblocking regional food trade
26 Oct 2012A new World Bank report says that Africa’s farmers can potentially grow enough food to feed the continent and avert future food crises if countries remove cross-border restrictio...
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