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    Property taxes across the G20 countries: can India get it right?

    Oxfam India, 2013
    Debates on the Indian tax policy have focused on three major issues—adequacy of the tax baseand efforts; efficiency of the tax structure; and incentive and equity effects of the tax policy.
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    Internationalisation of Yuan

    Research and Information System for Developing Countries, 2012
    This policy brief tracks policies being followed by China on internationalising its currency and reducing the need to depend on the US dollar. This follows the efforts of China to build a strong position in the global economy.
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    The financial depth of emerging markets: the case of Russia

    2013
    Interest in long-term trends developing in the emerging markets, led by the BRIC countries,has been growing fast. It reflects their increasing role in the world, but also the fact that business practices in these countries often defy conventional wisdom based on the generalisation of the experience of the advanced market economies.
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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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    The dark side of foreign direct investment: a South African perspective

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2013
    Often companies will seek to attract foreign investment as their capital requirements for investments cannot be served by the domestic markets. Foreign direct investment (FDI) is widely acknowledged as beneficial to developing countries’ economic growth.
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    Mobilizing climate investment: the role of international climate finance in creating scaled-up low-carbon energy

    2013
    It is estimated that developing countries need US$ 531 billion per year additional investment in energy supply and demand technologies, between now and 2050, in order to limit global temperature rise to two degrees above pre-industrial levels.
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    Demographic transition and the regulatory shortcomings of Brazil’s social security

    National Association of Postgraduate Centers in Economics, Brazil, 2011
    In two decades Brazil has built a comprehensive welfare state, but it is very costly  and ill prepared to face the ageing of the Brazilian population - by 2050 Brazilians 65 or older will represent 23% of total population, while the workforce will be shrinking.
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    Poverty transitions among older households in Brazil and South Africa

    Brooks World Poverty Institute, University of Manchester, 2011
    The knowledge gap relating to the dynamics of wellbeing and poverty among older households
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    South Africa’s way ahead: shall we samba?

    Trade Law Centre for Southern Africa, 2010
    This publication examines the trading implications of extending the current preferential trading agreement (PTA) between the Southern African Custom Union (SACU) and MERCOSUR to a full free trade agreement (FTA).
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    An analysis of inflation from a central banking perspective: the South African experience since 1921

    School of Development Studies, University of Kwazulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa, 2008
    This paper states that the problem of inflation in South Africa has occurred in different forms and has occupied the attention of monetary authorities over many years. The paper deems that inappropriate economic policy and monetary policy in particular, contributed to conditions conducive for the development of inflationary conditions.

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