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23rd Apr 2012

BRICS Development Bank gets Green Light

In a first step to set up a development bank as counterweight to the US/EU-led World Bank and the IMF, the Finance Ministers of the BRICS member countries have met up this weekend on sidelines of the annual Spring Meeting of the World Bank and the IMF to discuss this important step.

In their consultations South Africa and other members of BRICS grouping have agreed on Sunday 22 April 2012 to establish a task force to come up with recommendations to set up a developmental bank, a move ...[MORE]

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Date: 17.05.2012
Time: 23:04

Capetown:

Temp.: 16 °C / 61 °F
Wind: NNW / 10 kn
Sunrise: 07:05
Sunset: 18:19

Johannesburg:

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Wind: NWW / 5 kn
Sunrise: 06:14
Sunset: 17:52
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Dr. Chang-Hwan Kim (김창환), Ph.D (Oxford), MA (Columbia)
Seoul, Korea

Dr. Chang-Hwan Kim (김창환)After finishing foreign studies in Korea, Dr. Kim continued his university education at the Institute of African Studies at the Columbia University in New York, USA, and gained his Master of Arts degree in Comparative Politics in 1984. Thereafter he moved to Oxford University, UK, and completed his Doctorate Degree of Philosophy in the field of Politics, specialized in Political Economy and Development Studies in 1987.

From 1987 until 1989 he held the position as Head of Subject Specialist in the National Assembly of Korea and is since then the chairman of the Afro-Asia Investment and Management Services as well as since 2011 the Korean Representative of IBN and the COMESA representative in Asia.

Dr. Kim's areas of expertise comprise but are not limited to advisory and consulting services for setting up development and investment plans through Public Private Partnerships (PPP) as well as providing market information to potential investors and to attract investments from Korea into Southern Africa.

He is also a member of the Kenya Institute of Management, the Korea Institute of African Studies as well as the Korea Africa Friendship Society and a director of the ArabAfrican Institute. Since 2011 he finally heads the Korean-South African Knowledge Sharing program (KSP).