- Charting new directions: Brazil's role in a multi-polar world
- Policy Network, 2011
- Brazil has successfully and peacefully managed the transition to a democratic polity, a stable economy and an increasingly middle class society. These transitions have been based on gradual and hybrid economic, and social and internat...
- Brazil as a development actor: South-South cooperation and the IBSA initiative
- S-L. John de Sousa / Fride, 2008
- This report looks at Brazil as a development partner, its external perception as an important and crucial country for regional stability, and projection of its global identity as a ‘voice’ for the developing world in crucial...
- Rising powers, reforming challenges: negotiating agriculture in the WTO Doha Round from a Brazilian perspective
- B. Baracuhy / Centre for Rising Powers, University of Cambridge, 2011
- This article examines the history of the WTO Doha Round agriculture negotiations from 2001 to 2011 in light of the shifting global balance of economic power. It shows that the rise of China, Brazil and India, among other developing co...
- Addressing cycles of conflict generated indirectly by globalisation
- A.T. Duval; E.V. Veen / Stability: International Journal of Security & Development, 2012
- It is repeatedly thought that globalisation has not made the world a more stable or equitable place. This brief explores two specific critical risks posed by globalisation for conflict-affected and fragile countries. The pa...
- Stability: International Journal of Security & Development
- Stability: International Journal of Security & Development is an open-access journal. It publishes research quickly and free of charge aiming to have a maximal impact upon policy and practice communities. Despite the allocation of significant policy attention and financial resources to a perceived relationship between development assistance, security and stability, a solid evidence...
- Planning Dhaka as a Global City: A Critical Discourse
- A Kalam 2009
- Cities and city regions are practically observed to be the engines of economic growth in the age of globalization. Cities and their regions thus diversely play important roles in national and international contexts. City provides oppo...
- Africa Progress Panel
- The Africa Progress Panel consists of a group of individuals who lend their time to track and encourage progress in Africa, and to underscore shared responsibility between African leaders and their international partners for sustaining it. A Geneva-based Secretariat supports the Panel in three main areas: research and policy; advocacy and communication; and preparation of APP core produ...
- Inclusive and sustainable development: challenges, opportunities, policies and partnerships
- Overseas Development Institute, 2012
- These challenge papers aim to address two key questions: how has the development challenge changed, and how could it be understood for the future; and what are the implications for development agencies and development partnerships? Th...
- Key indicators for Asia and the Pacific 2012 (43rd edition)
- Asian Development Bank, 2012
- This publication includes the latest available economic, financial, social and environmental indicators for the 48 regional members of the Asian Development Bank (ADB). It aims to present the latest key statistics on development issue...
- The Global Competitiveness Report 2011-2012
- World Economic Forum, 2011
- This report contributes to the understanding of the key factors determining economic growth, helps to explain why some countries are more successful than others in raising income levels and opportunities for their respective populatio...
- Charting new directions: Brazil's role in a multi-polar world
- Policy Network, 2011
- Brazil has successfully and peacefully managed the transition to a democratic polity, a stable economy and an increasingly middle class society. These transitions have been based on gradual and hybrid economic, and social and internat...
- Brazil as a development actor: South-South cooperation and the IBSA initiative
- S-L. John de Sousa / Fride, 2008
- This report looks at Brazil as a development partner, its external perception as an important and crucial country for regional stability, and projection of its global identity as a ‘voice’ for the developing world in crucial...
- Rising powers, reforming challenges: negotiating agriculture in the WTO Doha Round from a Brazilian perspective
- B. Baracuhy / Centre for Rising Powers, University of Cambridge, 2011
- This article examines the history of the WTO Doha Round agriculture negotiations from 2001 to 2011 in light of the shifting global balance of economic power. It shows that the rise of China, Brazil and India, among other developing co...
- Addressing cycles of conflict generated indirectly by globalisation
- A.T. Duval; E.V. Veen / Stability: International Journal of Security & Development, 2012
- It is repeatedly thought that globalisation has not made the world a more stable or equitable place. This brief explores two specific critical risks posed by globalisation for conflict-affected and fragile countries. The pa...
- Planning Dhaka as a Global City: A Critical Discourse
- A Kalam 2009
- Cities and city regions are practically observed to be the engines of economic growth in the age of globalization. Cities and their regions thus diversely play important roles in national and international contexts. City provides oppo...
- Inclusive and sustainable development: challenges, opportunities, policies and partnerships
- Overseas Development Institute, 2012
- These challenge papers aim to address two key questions: how has the development challenge changed, and how could it be understood for the future; and what are the implications for development agencies and development partnerships? Th...
- Key indicators for Asia and the Pacific 2012 (43rd edition)
- Asian Development Bank, 2012
- This publication includes the latest available economic, financial, social and environmental indicators for the 48 regional members of the Asian Development Bank (ADB). It aims to present the latest key statistics on development issue...
- The Global Competitiveness Report 2011-2012
- World Economic Forum, 2011
- This report contributes to the understanding of the key factors determining economic growth, helps to explain why some countries are more successful than others in raising income levels and opportunities for their respective populatio...
- Private Foundations, Business and Developing a Post-2015 Framework
- N. Watson 2012
- Businesses operating in developing countries should use their influence to strengthen national government systems, rather than bypassing them if progress is to be made on global poverty reduction. Businesses should use their influence...
- Radioactive Revenues: Financial Flows between Uranium Mining Companies and African Governments
- Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations, 2011
- For African countries, the revenue derived from the uranium mining operations of multinational corporations is despite the high price of uranium minimal, uncertain and volatile. The financial agreements that these countries make with ...
- Global Union Research Network (GURN)
- The GURN is a cooperation project of the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC), the Trade Union Advisory Committee to the OECD (TUAC) , the Global Union Federations (GUFs), the ILO's International Institute for Labour Studies (IILS) and the ILO's Bureau for Workers' Activities (ACTRAV). Currently, the ITUC, TUAC and ILO/ACTRAV form the steering committee of the GURN. The aim of...
- LICOS Centre for Institutions and Economic Performance
- Economic research institute based in Belgium
- German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP)
- German national foreign policy network
- The United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC)
- The United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) was established to coordinate economic, social, and related work of the 14 UN specialized agencies, functional commissions and five regional commissions. It serves as the central forum for discussing international economic and social issues, and for formulating policy recommendations addressed to Member States and the United Nations system....
- German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA)
- German overseas development think-tank
- Middle East Youth Initiative
- The initiative blends activities in an attempt to bridge the divide between thinkers and practitioners by utilising robust research as a foundation for effective policy and programs. The initiative has three complementary pillars: Research and Policy The initiateive aims to advance understanding of economic and social issues to promote solutions for the in...
- Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE)
- The Peter G. Peterson Institute for International Economics is a private, nonprofit, nonpartisan research institution devoted to the study of international economic policy. Since 1981 the Institute has provided timely and objective analysis of, and concrete solutions to, a wide range of international economic problems. It is one of the very few economics think tanks that are widely regarded as &qu...
- Global Policy Innovations Program
- Global Policy Innovations program provides a forum for pragmatic alternatives to the current global economic order. It highlights the best new thinking on a fairer globalization. It develops and broadcasts innovative ideas through: publishing online magazine Policy Innovations, a companion blog, podcasts, video, and workshop summaries and analy...
- Open University Asian Drivers Programme
- Research programme on India, China and other large Asian economies
- Center for the Advanced Study of India, University of Pennsylvania
- The study of contemporary India at the University of Pennsylvania
