By Ravi Kanth Devarakonda GENEVA, Mar 24 (IPS) – Trade envoys of India, Brazil, and South Africa have warned industrialised countries not to hijack the Doha multilateral trade negotiations by adopting the controversial plurilateral approach to liberalise trade in services.
By Ravi Kanth Devarakonda GENEVA, Mar 24 (IPS) – Trade envoys of India, Brazil, and South Africa have warned industrialised countries not to hijack the Doha multilateral trade negotiations by adopting the controversial plurilateral approach to liberalise trade in services.
By Ravi Kanth Devarakonda GENEVA, Mar 17 (IPS) – India, Brazil and South Africa, the international grouping for promoting international cooperation among the three countries known as IBSA, along with China and several other developing countries, have denounced the ongoing attempts to craft an exclusive, plurilateral agreement to liberalise trade in services without concluding the [...]
By Mantoe Phakathi MBABANE, Jan 17 (IPS) – The 146-kilometre railway line to be established between South Africa and Swaziland will help reduce the cost of doing business between the two countries.
By Kristin Palitza DURBAN, South Africa, Dec 5 (IPS) – Emerging economies China, South Africa and Brazil have indicated their openness to legally-binding carbon emission reduction targets from 2020 during the United Nations climate change summit in Durban, South Africa.
By Ravi Kanth Devarakonda GENEVA, Nov 17 (IPS) – The convergence of leading countries from the global South – China, India, Brazil and South Africa, among others – to assist the poorest countries in sub-Saharan Africa and elsewhere constitutes a new “dynamic” in the emerging global economic partnerships, says the United Nations Conference on Trade [...]
By Kristin Palitza CAPE TOWN, Nov 17 (IPS) – South African health experts are calling on governments to use legally available mechanisms to promote the production or import of generic drugs in their countries.
By Kristin Palitza CAPE TOWN, Nov 15 (IPS) – South Africa and the Democratic Republic of Congo have signed an agreement to build a major hydroelectric power project, which is said to bring electricity to more than half of the continent’s 900 million people. But economic analysts warn foreign investors will prevent the grid from [...]
By Kristin Palitza CAPE TOWN, Nov 4 (IPS) – African heads of state have ambitious plans to create a free trade zone, encompassing 26 countries and more than 600 million people on the continent. But economic experts warn the project is a bold step that comes with a plethora of legal, administrative and political hurdles. [...]
By Ravi Kanth Deverakonda GENEVA, Nov 1 (IPS) – When the G20 leaders meet for their fifth summit in Cannes, France, on Thursday, they will be confronted with several worsening global economic and trade issues. Among them is how to strengthen the international trading system and how to overcome the developmental deficit that continues to [...]
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