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    Africa’s Silk Road: China and India’s new economics frontier

    World Bank, 2007
    This report finds that Asian trade and investment in Africa hold great promise for Africa’s economic growth and development – provided certain policy reforms on both continents are implemented. It provides systematic empirical evidence on how the two emerging economic giants of Asia – China and India – now stand at the crossroads of the explosion of African-Asian trade and investment.
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    Shifting paradigm: how the BRICS are reshaping global health and development

    Global Health Strategies, 2012
    BRICS' (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) foreign assistance spending has been growing rapidly and these countries have been exploring opportunities for more formal collaboration among themselves and with developing countries. International organisations have also started looking to the BRICS as potential donors and health innovators.
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    Negotiating climate change

    Taylor and Francis Group, 2012
    Because the 15th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 15) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Copenhagen, Denmark, 2009, failed to reach an agreement on emissions commitments beyond 2012, studying negotiation strategies of country delegations remains relevant.
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    Planning for a low carbon future: lessons learned from seven country studies

    Energy Sector Management Assistance Programme [World Bank / UNDP], 2012
    Developing countries are faced with the dual challenge of reducing poverty while improving management of natural capital and mitigating the emission of greenhouse gases (GHG) and local pollutants. The challenge is particularly acute for large, rapidly growing economies, such as India, China and Brazil.
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    Nationally appropriate mitigation actions (NAMAs) in developing countries: challenges and opportunities

    Institute of Environmental Studies, Vrije Universiteit, 2010
    Nationally appropriate mitigation actions (NAMAs) were introduced by the Bali Action Plan in 2007 and they have since been interpreted in various ways by different countries and country groupings. A key question for the talks on NAMAs at the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference in 2009 and beyond is whether the different positions can be reconciled.
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    Low carbon growth country studies – getting started: experience from six countries

    Energy Sector Management Assistance Programme [World Bank / UNDP], 2009
    This document is a review of the low carbon growth studies conducted in six emerging economies: Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Mexico and South Africa. These countries, with the help of the Energy Sector Management Assistance Programme (ESMAP), have initiated country specific studies to assess development goals in conjunction with greenhouse gas mitigation opportunities.
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    IDLO-CISDL compendium of legal best practices on climate change policy

    International Development Law Organisation, 2011
    This paper highlights the challenges that governments face in implementing their international climate change policy commitments and the means to addressing these challenges. The authors note that international action on climate change is a relatively new phenomenon and legal systems were designed prior to the establishment of the multilateral climate change regime.
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    The ICT Landscape in BRICS Countries: Brazil, India, China

    Directorate-General for Research - European Commission, 2012
    BRIC countires are becoming major players as producers of ICT goods and services.The aim of this report is to take a closer look at the ICTs landscape in BRICS countries Brazil, India and China. It documents the size of the ICT sector for each of the three countries covered and assesses their R&D expenditures.
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    Developing Countries' Trade Vulnerabilities to EU Climate Policies

    International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development, 2011
    The European Union (EU) aims to take a lead in combating climate change and, as such, experiences a higher intensity of carbon leakage and competitiveness concerns. The EU is, however, an important export market for many developing countries, and BCAs implemented by the EU could therefore have a large impact on these countries.
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    Investment-Grade Climate Change Policy: Financing the Transition to the Low-Carbon Economy

    2011
    The report has two objectives: (1) to contribute to policymakers' understanding of the factors that institutional investors consider when investing in low-carbon growth areas such as renewable energy and energy efficiency, and (2) to set out what institutional investors see as 'investment-grade' climate change and clean energy policy that would support significant low-carbon, clean energy investme

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