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    India in Africa: implications of an emerging power for Africom and U.S. strategy

    Strategic Studies Institute of the US Army War College, 2011
    This report examines India’s rapidly expanding network of influence in Africa. The country’s burgeoning public and private investments in the region are analysed, as well as its policies vis-à-vis African regional organisations and individual states, especially in the security sector.
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    South-South cooperation in health and pharmaceuticals: emerging trends in India-Brazil collaborations

    Research and Information System for Developing Countries, 2011
    Health is emerging as an important area for collaboration among emerging economies. The health sector is an area in which India and Brazil have increasingly collaborated, bilaterally and in several international forums. The author of this paper argues that such collaboration has added new thrust to the process of South-South cooperation.
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    Economic Mobility and the Rise of the Latin American Middle Class

    World Bank, 2012
    After decades of stagnation, the size of the middle class in Latin America and the Caribbean recently expanded by 50 percent - from 103 million people in 2003 to 152 million (or 30 percent of the continent’s population) in 2009.
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    Climate change, adaptation, and formal education: the role of schooling for increasing societies' adaptive capacities in El Salvador and Brazil

    Ecology and Society, 2012
    This paper examines the influence of formal education in determining the adaptive capacity of the residents of two low-income settlements where climate-related disasters are recurrent: Los Manantiales in San Salvador (El Salvador) and Rocinha in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil).
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    Global Health Strategies (GHS)

    Global Health Strategies (GHS) is an international consulting company that works with clients to ensure development and worldwide delivery of health products, technologies and information.
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    Policy options for low-carbon power generation in China: designing an emissions trading system for China’s electricity sector

    International Energy Agency, 2012
    China has indicated that it intends to rely on emissions trading to curb its growing greenhouse gas emissions. This paper explores how China could use an emissions trading system (ETS) to control CO2 emissions from its power generation sector, which is the single largest emitter of the country’s energy-related emissions.
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    The Strategic Triad: Form and Content in Brazil’s Triangular Cooperation Practices

    2007
    Triangular cooperation, in which two countries form a partnership to lend technical assistance to a third country, is a growing model of technical cooperation in the developing world. This paper asks: why do developing countries participate in triangular cooperation, and how are these arrangements different from bilateral and multilateral linkages?
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    Triangular cooperation in the context of aid effectiveness: experiences and views of European donors

    Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional / Agency for International Cooperation, Spain, 2010
    This document includes a workshop report and concept note for the workshop ‘The European Union’s Triangular Cooperation in the context of aid effectiveness’ organised by the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID) in March 2010.
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    Resurgent continent?: Africa and the world: emerging powers and Africa

    London School of Economics, 2010
    Over the last fifteen years, emerging powers have made significant inroads into Western political and economic dominance in Africa. The result is a diversification of external actors involved across a range of sectors of the African economy.
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    Who gives foreign aid to whom and why?

    National Bureau of Economic Research, USA, 2000
    This paper studies the pattern of allocation of foreign aid from various donors to receiving countries. The study finds considerable evidence that the direction of foreign aid is dictated as much by political and strategic considerations, as by the economic needs and policy performance of the recipients. Colonial past and political alliances are major determinants of foreign aid.

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