Ahead of the Brics summit, the two countries are expected to fortify trade co-operation agreements.
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The World Bank has welcomed the proposal by Brics nations – inclusing South Africa – to explore establishing a Brics development bank.
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The rising profile of the Brics has reshaped the geopolitical economy and this has given rise to the idea of setting up a development bank.
The department of trade and industry launched the industrial policy action plan, saying the manufacturing sector needs to grow and create jobs.
South Africa’s inclusion into Brics has been a political triumph, but the real challenges are about to start.
Brics members — Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa — are expected to begin cross-listing financial products.
Leaders of the emerging world will discuss the creation of a new development bank at a summit shadowed by protests against the Chinese president.
President Jacob Zuma has landed in India for the fourth Brics summit and has held talks urging Russia and Brazil to invest more in the country.
President Jacob Zuma intends to position SA as a global force representing emerging African economies in international platforms at the Brics summit.
SA business needs to take advantage of the commercial opportunithe Brics, Business Unity SA said (Busa) on Sunday.
A leading investment banker says South Africa’s gate-crashing of the political bloc defies logic because of the country’s lack of economic clout.
The selection of a new president for the World Bank is an opportunity to promote the continent.
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/ 25 February 2012
Brazil plans to impose strict quality control on imports from China and other Asian nations to prevent the influx of cheap goods.
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/ 14 December 2011
Trade and Industry Minister Rob Davies says the developmental mandate will be fundamental at the World Trade Organisation’s ministerial conference.
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/ 30 November 2011
India’s economic growth has slumped to a two-year low of 6.9% as it was hit by a string of rate hikes and the stumbling global economy.
SA is backing plans for a single currency unit within the exclusive Brics grouping that the emerging giants could use to trade among themselves.
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/ 17 November 2011
Debt ceilings, double dips, currency volatility and Walmart — the <em>Mail & Guardian</em> rounds up the business highlights of 2011.
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/ 13 October 2011
Stock exchanges from Brazil, Russia, India, Hong Kong and SA have unveiled a cross-listing agreement to increase economic partnerships.
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/ 10 October 2011
Gwede Mantashe is to lead a high-level delegation to China in a visit the ANC insists has nothing to do with the Dalai Lama visa debacle.
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/ 25 September 2011
A group of five leading emerging economies that has banded together to increase their global clout is again struggling to find common ground.