Can India Deliver the Goods?
Earlier this year, The Economist asked whether or not India’s decade had at last arrived.
Earlier this year, The Economist asked whether or not India’s decade had at last arrived.
China and southern Africa have received growing international attention in recent years, but for very different reasons.
At a time when the international community is preoccupied with crises in Iraq, the Middle East, postwar reconstruction in Afghanistan and aid to countries hit by the Asian tsunami disaster, many commentators have justifiably concluded that Africa would be off the radar screens of donor countries save for limited military and humanitarian interventions in a few countries.
Developing Asia is moving up South Africa’s strategic agenda. In recent months China and India have dominated the headlines as we move to commence free trade negotiations with them.
IN THE modern world of just-in-time production and delivery, the efficient flow of goods is critical for a trader to remain competitive in international markets.
AGRICULTURAL goods accounts for less than 5% of our exports, while manufactured exports now occupy a central place.
If casual interactions over cocktails on the regional conference circuit are anything to go by, South Africa is the source of most of our region’s problems.
THERE is much discussion in South African government circles about formulating an African development strategy. Many elements are being implemented by a multitude of government departments and agencies.
The World Trade Organisation’s (WTO’s) biannual ministerial jamboree is just around the corner. This year it will take place in Hong Kong in December. What is it likely to deliver?
SENIOR South African government representatives argue that they are agents of a development state.