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  Climate-smart development: Adding up the benefits of actions that help build prosperity, end poverty and combat climate change

  World Bank, 2014

  This report argues that smart development policies and projects can also slow the pace of adverse climate changes and that the objectives of economic development and climate protection can compliment one another.
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  Understanding India’s global engagements: some key issues and entry points for an inclusive development agenda

  Oxfam India, 2011

  India’s international position is one of increasing influence and assertiveness, but is also shaped by powerful constrains. Civil society in India faces opportunities and constraints of a particular and complex nature.
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  Inequality Matters: BRICS inequalities fact sheet

  Oxfam, 2013

  In international debates about inequality, dialogue on the emergence of the BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa), has focused largely on how this group has contributed to a shift in the global balance of power, raising hopes of a more egalitarian global governance architecture through international trade and development co-operation.
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  Seen, heard and counted: rethinking care in a development context

  Development and Change Journal, 2012

  This is a diverse collection of contributions covering various aspects of care from around the world, from Chinese women’s burdens under economic reform, to the political and social organisation of childcare in Argentina.
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  The dynamic south, economic development and inclusive growth: the challenges ahead

  The Brazilian Center for Analysis and Planning, 2013

  High wage inequality is a major policy concern in Brazil, India, China and South Africa. Recent literature points to the need to examine the role of minimum wages or unionisation and their links to inequality within labour markets and the role of social protection.
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  BRICS Policy Center / Centro de Estudos e Pesquisas BRICS

  The BRICS Policy Center (BPC) / Centro de Estudos e Pesquisas BRICS is a joint initiative of the City of Rio de Janeiro and the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio).
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  Social security coverage extension in the BRICS: a comparative study on the extension of coverage in Brazil, the Russian Federation, India, China and South Africa

  International Social Security Association, 2013

  The five countries of the BRICS, Brazil, the Russian Federation, India, China and South Africa, are facing some common challenges with regard to ageing of their populations, urbanisation, vulnerability to environmental shocks, increasing labour market fragmentation, growing income disparity, and the need to more fully exploit and leverage information and communications technologies.
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  The developmental impact of Asian drivers on Ethiopia with emphasis on small-scale footwear producers

  Wiley Online Library, 2009

  This paper examines the developmental impact of China and India on Ethiopia by examining macro-level trade, investment and aid relations, and micro-level impacts on local small-scale footwear producers in Ethiopia. Both secondary and primary data were used in the study. At the macro level, there is clear evidence of an increase in trade between Ethiopia and China and India.
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  A comparative perspective on poverty reduction in Brazil, China and India

  World Bank, 2009

  Brazil, China and India have witnessed falling poverty during their reform periods, but to varying degrees and for different reasons. This paper compares the experiences of these three countries and elaborates on what they could learn from each other.
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  BRICs’ philosophies for development financing and their implications for LICs

  International Monetary Fund, 2012

  Flows of development financing from the BRICs (Brazil, Russia, India and China) to low income countries (LICs) have surged in recent years. Unlike aid from traditional donors, BRICs (excluding Russia) view their financing as primarily based on the principles of South-South cooperation, focusing on mutual benefits without attachment of policy conditionality.

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