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    India’s negotiating position on climate change: legitimate but not sagacious

    Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi, 2007
    In the intergovernmental climate negotiations India has consistently argued against greenhouse gas mitigation commitments for developing countries. This short paper argues that while India’s position, given the burden sharing architecture of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and its Kyoto Protocol, is legitimate, it is not a sagacious position to hold.
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    South Africa and China: the agricultural and fisheries trading relationship

    Trade Law Centre for Southern Africa, 2008
    A feature of world trade over the last ten years has been the dramatic growth of China's trade with the world.  This paper examines the agricultural component of Chinese trade with South Africa, which it aims to place in broader perspective of China's global trading relationships.
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    GMO governance in Africa

    The Centre for Innovation, Knowledge and Development, The Open University, 2006
    This paper examines issues of legitimation and harmonisation of biosafety systems in GMO governance in Africa. It draws on case studies from emerging regulatory systems in Ethiopia and South Africa, which offer contrasting examples that evolved under different historical and socio-economic conditions.
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    Could agriculture help to prevent further climate change?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
    There is growing evidence that greenhouse gas emissions from human activity contribute to climate change. Many people blame modern farming practices for accelerating this - agriculture produces between 16.8 and 32.2 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions. But could agriculture also hold some solutions to climate change?
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    Food and energy sovereignty now: Brazilian grassroots position on agroenergy

    The Oakland Institute, 2008
    Brazil is the global leader in ethanol exports, providing 70% of the world's supply in 2006. While official accounts of the Brazilian government’s experiment with biofuels laud it as a global model for sustainable biomass production, it is increasingly being criticised and opposed by national social movements.
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    Market movers: lessons from a frontier of innovation

    International Finance Corporation, 2007
    Companies from emerging economies are increasingly often gaining competitive advantages by being environmentally and socially responsible. Such companies create value both for their business and for society. Exploring the cases of individual companies, this paper identifies factors that have contributed to their strong performances:
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    Can all cash transfers reduce inequality?

    International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2007
    This one-page document examines the impact of three Latin American Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programmes providing cash transfers to poor families, conditioned on children’s school attendance and regular medical checks-ups.
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    Evaluating the impact of Brazil’s Bolsa Família: Cash transfer programmes in comparative perspective

    International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2007
    Created in 2004, Brazil's Bolsa Familia programme consists of monthly cash transfers to poor households with children or pregnant women and unconditional transfers to extremely poor households. This paper examines how successfully and efficiently Bolsa Familia eases poverty and breaks its intergenerational transmission.
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    South African quotas on Chinese clothing and textiles: has there been sufficient economic justification?

    Trade Law Centre for Southern Africa, 2007
    South Africa imposed quotas on the importation of selected clothing lines from China to slow the trade flow of imports. This paper answers the question whether those quotas are meeting their goal. To do so, it examines the changes in the trade flows of clothing since the introduction of the quotas.
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    Evolving wave of competition in the international market: Challenges for Africa through the rise of China and India

    African Economic Research Consortium, 2007
    China's and India's rising demand for commodities has contributed to recent GDP growth in Africa. Both countries have lowered their tariffs on imports from Africa and China has also granted preferential treatment to some countries.

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