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    Cash transfers: to condition or not to condition?

    Eldis Gateway to Development and Environment Information, 2009
    In response to the recent food crisis and global financial crisis, the G-20 countries and the World Bank announced increased spending on social protection programmes, including cash-based systems.
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    From confrontation to cooperation: a developed country perspective on the role of developing countries’ contribution to technology development and transfer

    Center for International Climate and Environmental Research, Oslo, 2009
    This report argues that a successful mechanism for technology development and transfer requires contributions by developing countries (DCs) as well. Specifically, the paper discusses the role of DCs within a mechanism for development and transfer of climate friendly technologies, and makes suggestions for the design of such a mechanism.
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    Self-interest and global responsibility: aid policies of South Korea and India in the making

    Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2009
    This study investigates the aid policies of India and South Korea. Both countries represent a rather diverse group of countries that has been lumped together as ‘emerging’ donors. The role of ‘emerging’ donors is currently at the heart of the international aid discourse, but so far, knowledge about emerging donors is inadequate.
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    Packages of care for dementia in low- and middle-income countries

    Public Library of Science Medicine, 2009
    Two-thirds of people with dementia live in low- and middle income countries (LMICs), where there are few services available and levels of awareness is low.  This paper focuses on the effective management of dementia in LMICs, reviews the evidence on efficacy of interventions and their delivery derived from LMICs where possible.
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    China and Africa’s natural resources: the challenges and implications for development and governance

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2009
    China’s three decades of unbroken growth have transformed it from an economic backwater to the world’s third largest economy. This has fuelled an ever-expanding demand for energy and new markets.This paper proposes to analyse China’s growing engagement in Africa’s mineral sector and assess its impact on local governance.
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    Monitoring governance: lessons from international experience

    World Bank, 2001
    This paper develops a set of governance monitoring tools on the basis of international experience.In contrast to efforts to develop a single governance rating, this approach seeks to collect and propose a range of different instruments and procedures under a single umbrella designed to enhance the capacity to monitor government performance.
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    HIV drug policies and south markets: settling controversies

    Future Medicine, 2009
    Despite progress, antiretroviral therapy coverage in low- and middle-income countries remains poor: only 31% of HIV-infected people in need were receiving treatment in 2007.
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    Non-DAC donors and reform of the international aid architecture

    North-South Institute, 2009
    Over recent years, calls for reform of the international aid architecture have intensified.
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    Building on progress? Chinese engagement in Ethiopia

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2009
    Although the bulk of research has focused on China’s no-strings-attached approach to doing business in Africa, few efforts have been made to understand Chinese engagement with African countries that are
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    Brazil’s rural pension system, its development and impacts: lessons for China

    New Dynamics of Ageing, 2009
    Like Brazil in the 1960s, China is now facing problems of large geographical inequalities, as well high rates of rural to urban migration of younger aged adults. However, rural older people account for a much higher share of China‟s total population than in Brazil. This both increases the urgency for universal pension provision and increases the economic cost of doing so.

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