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Friday, March 30th, 2012
By Ravi Kanth Devarakonda GENEVA, Mar 30 (IPS) – Brazil and South Africa have experienced a widespread contraction of their manufacturing industries, with the latter suffering massive unemployment as well, thanks to the rampant volatility and misalignment of dominant global currencies like the dollar, trade experts from the two countries say.
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Wednesday, March 28th, 2012
By Servaas van den Bosch JOHANNESBURG, Mar 29 (IPS) – South Africa’s membership of the bloc of leading emerging economies and its unique position in Africa heralded the country’s role as a gateway into the African continent. However, trade experts question whether it can live up to this position as investors begin to increasingly look [...]
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Saturday, March 24th, 2012
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.
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Saturday, March 24th, 2012
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.
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Monday, March 19th, 2012
By Ranjit Devraj NEW DELHI, Mar. 19 (IPS) – By allowing a generic manufacturer to produce a patented cancer drug at a fraction of its current cost, India has declared that it is not about to abandon its role as the ‘pharmacy of the world’s poor’.
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Tuesday, February 14th, 2012
By Bari Bates BRUSSELS, Feb 14 (IPS) – Behind closed doors, a trade deal affecting a fifth of the world’s population has been quietly in the works for years.
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Thursday, November 17th, 2011
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 [...]
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Wednesday, November 16th, 2011
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.
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Friday, November 4th, 2011
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. [...]
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Tuesday, November 1st, 2011
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 [...]
