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    What is Indian pharma's next move?

    IPFrontline, 2005
    This article describes how Indian pharmaceutical companies can emerge as a global R&D leader in the post product patent regime by patenting some of herbal formulations, in which India has significant experience.It outlines how most companies in the Indian pharmaceutical industry were able to register significant growth until 2005 because of a system of 'process patents' as against the Western c
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    Corporate governance: observance of standards and codes

    World Bank, 2006
    As part of the Reports on the Observance of Standards and Codes (ROSC) programme by the World Bank and IMF, this internet resource brings together country by country implementation assessments. The goal of the ROSC initiative is to identify weaknesses that may contribute to a country’s economic and financial vulnerability.
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    Sending money to South Africa from the UK

    Sending Money Home?, 2006
    This site and accompanying leaflet is aimed at people wanting to send money to South Africa from the UK.
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    Auditing, accountability and anti-corruption: multilateral lending to legislative budget oversight and external auditing of public finances in Latin America

    Centro Latinoamericano de Desarrollo, 2006
    This paper reviews multilateral lending to the institutions of budget oversight and public finance accountability in Latin America, focusing on the case of the IDB. The IDB lending and technical assistance to legislative budget institutions and external audit agencies is part of its broader efforts to enhance financial management in the public sector of its borrowing countries.
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    Official aid giving no longer a Northern phenomenon

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006
    More donor governments are engaging in humanitarian action. In 1994, 16 states provided assistance to the war-torn Balkans, but a decade later 92 nations responded to the Indian Ocean tsunami. However, many of the new players chose to not follow the usual disbursement patterns of Western donors.  What are the consequences for aid coordination?
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    Cash benefits to disabled persons in Brazil: an analysis of the BPC continuous cash benefit programme

    International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2006
    This paper presents an analysis of the Continuous Cash Benefit Programme (BCP, reflecting its Portuguese translation). Introduced in Brazil in 1993, it is the second largest non-contributary cash benefits programme in the country. Targetted at elderly or very poor individuals with disabilities, the transfer is equivalent to a monthly minimum wage.
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    Reinventing UNCTAD

    South Centre, 2006
    This paper examines the development of UNCTAD since its inception in 1964, and proposes possible steps for reform. The paper looks at UNCTAD’s mandate, its achievements and its decline.
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    Meeting energy needs through the Kyoto Protocol

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006
    Smaller energy projects are often well suited to developing countries but find it difficult to attract funding. The Kyoto Protocol, which sets targets for industrialised countries to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, has established the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) to help fund such projects.
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    Land tenure reform and gender equality

    United Nations [UN] Research Institute for Social Development, 2005
    This brief explores the reform of land tenure institutions which re-emerged in the 1990s, and asks if these reforms are any more gender sensitive than those of the past?The paper highlights that a focus of the recent reforms has been on land titling, designed to promote security of tenure and stimulate land markets.
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    Asian perspectives on climate regime beyond 2012: concerns, interests and priorities

    Institute for Global Environmental Strategies, Japan, 2005
    This publication details a series of stakeholder consultations focussing on the post-Kyoto climate regime in China, India, Indonesia, Japan, the Republic of Korea and Viet Nam, as well as the broader Asia-Pacific Region. The aim of these surveys was to ascertain the concerns and priorities of various countries in relation to a future climate regime.

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