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    Contentious politics, contentious knowledges: mobilising against GM crops in India, South Africa and Brazil

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2005
    This paper looks at how knowledge is deployed and science constructed in different spaces of engagement activists use in campaigning against GM crops in India, South Africa and Brazil. It highlights strategies and tactics used by anti-GM activist networks across seven ‘spaces’ for citizen engagement.
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    Policy challenges before ‘shining’ India

    ESocialSciences, 2009
    This paper discusses several factors that have adversely affected rural livelihoods, human development and employment in India. The discussion seeks to highlight the problems in the agricultural and rural sector and how this contradicts with India’s economic success.The paper identifies some of the problems afflicting rural India as follows: rural livelihoods:
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    ‘Rushing in where angels fear to tread?’: the early internationalisation of indigenous Chinese firms

    World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2009
    China offers an interesting, but unfortunately neglected, case study of international entrepreneurship. This paper empirically investigates the early international entrepreneurship of indigenous Chinese firms using data on 3,948 firms surveyed by the World Bank in 2002-03.
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    South-South cooperation in Latin America and the Caribbean: ways ahead following Accra

    Fride, 2009
    South-South cooperation (SSC) is gaining more prominence in the aid environment - particularly after being formally recognised in the official output of the Accra conference on aid effectiveness (the Accra Agenda for Action). Indeed as a system of aid effectiveness it has many attractive qualities.
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    The financial crisis and its impact on developing countries

    International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2009
    One of the key channels for transmission of the crisis from developed to developing countries has been via private capital flows though the impact of this has been more severe for emerging markets than for low-income countries, which are less integrated into international private capital markets. Foreign direct invest (FDI) flows will likely fall sharply.
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    Brazil in the global economy: measuring the gains from trade

    Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2009
    The purpose of this study is to contribute to the knowledge base upon which the Brazilian government, as well as the international community, evaluates the policy choices the country faces in the realm of trade.
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    Financial crisis, global economic governance and development: responses of Asia and the global South

    Research and Information System for Developing Countries, 2009
    Research and information system (RIS) organised the high-level conference on financial crisis, global economic governance and development: responses of Asia and the global South, in New Delhi on 6-7 February 2009 to mark its silver jubilee.
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    Changing the Aid for Trade debate towards content

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2009
    The Aid for Trade (AfT) debate has mostly focused on how to implement AfT programmes rather than on what to do and the specific content of these programmes. This policy brief finds that other relevant areas need to be integrated into the AfT agenda.
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    Latin America’s aging challenge: demographics and retirement policy in Brazil, Chile, and Mexico

    Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington, 2009
    Latin America’s population aged 65 or over will triple to 18.5 percent by 2050. Fertility is declining. The coming age wave poses two fundamental challenges for Latin America. The first is to fashion national retirement systems capable of providing an adequate level of support for the old without imposing a crushing burden on the young.
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    Monetary policy challenges for emerging market economies

    Cornell University Library, 2009
    Emerging market economies have now become one of the most dynamic and economically important groups in the world economy. As these economies become larger and more integrated into international trade and finance, they face an increasingly complex set of policy challenges.

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