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- What next for the BRICS Bank?
- N. Watson; M. Younis; S. Spratt / Institute of Development Studies UK, 2013
- A new development bank to be created by the ‘Rising Powers’ of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS) is intended to promote greater cooperation between developing countries, and address what is seen by many...
- Mobilizing climate investment: the role of international climate finance in creating scaled-up low-carbon energy
- C. Polycarp; L. Brown; X. Fu-Bertaux 2013
- It is estimated that developing countries need US$ 531 billion per year additional investment in energy supply and demand technologies, between now and 2050, in order to limit global temperature rise to two degrees above pre-industria...
- Rising Powers in International Development: an annotated bibliography
- M. Younis; J. Constantine; E. Wach; L. Navas-Alemán; A. Shankland; A. Yadav / Institute of Development Studies UK, 2013
- The Rising Powers – a category that includes the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) as well as other key countries such as Mexico, Turkey and Indonesia – are establishing themselves as an influential pre...
- Unravelling the impact of the global financial crisis on the South African labour market
- S. Verick / International Labour Organization, 2010
- South Africa, Africa’s largest economy, fell into recession half way through 2008, with job losses numbering almost 900,000. Real GDP growth in the third quarter of 2009 suggested that the South African economy was exiting recess...
- Bargaining with grandma: the impact of the South African pension on household decision making
- K Ambler / Population Studies Center, University of Michigan, 2011
- The expansion of the South African old age pension is interesting to economists firstly because extent to which this money effectively increases the well-being of those who receive it is an important question for a policymaking, but a...
- Have households with older people in South Africa and Brazil managed to reduce their poverty gaps?
- A. Barrientos; J. Mase / Brooks World Poverty Institute, University of Manchester, 2011
- The knowledge gap relating to the dynamics of wellbeing and poverty among older households in developing countries has direct implications for policy. In general, South Africa and Brazil lack official poverty lines. The main obje...
- Using stratification of propensity for information technology and income
- L. Munyakazi; V. Dutton; J. May / School of Development Studies, University of Kwazulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa, 2010
- How can we derive the relationship between “ownership of information and communication technology” (ICT) on the one hand, and income defined as a multiple of the poverty line on the other hand? This study provides evidence...
- The rise of pensions as a development issue
- id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
- The 1990s could well qualify as the decade of global pension reform. A number of countries in Latin America and some transition economies radically transformed their pension provision and moved swiftly towards privately provided indiv...
- Appreciating the differences between chronic and transient poverty is important for policy
- id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003
- The past few years have seen remarkable consensus on and commitment to poverty reduction from governments around the world. This has resulted in the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) which seek to reduce global absolute poverty by 5...
- Emerging economies are providing workable development strategies and creating new multilateral south-south institutions
- J. Scott; M. vom Hau; D. Hulme / Brooks World Poverty Institute, University of Manchester, 2010
- Much attention has been focused on the BICs (Brazil, India and China) and how they are changing global politics and economics. However, there is also a further tier of emerging middle powers ‘beyond the BICs’ that are play...
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