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  India in Afghanistan: a rising power or a hesitant power?

  2012

  Ever since the fall of the Taliban in 2001, India has tried to pursue a pro-active Afghanistan policy and a broad-based interaction is taking place between the two states. This is also a time when Indian capabilities - political, economic, and military - have increased markedly and India has become increasingly ambitious in defining its foreign policy agenda.  
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  Building BRICs by building stadiums: preliminary reflections on recent and future sports mega-events in four emerging economies

  International Research Institute for Sport Studies, UK, 2014

  Research on sports mega-events throughout the world has demonstrated that the benefits of staging them tend to be overestimated and the costs underestimated.
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  India’s FDI inflows trends and concepts

  Research and Information System for Developing Countries, 2011

  India’s inward investment regime went through a series of changes since economic reforms were ushered in two decades back. The expectation of the policy makers was that an “investor friendly” regime will help India establish itself as a preferred destination of foreign investors.
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  Innovation, solidarity and South-South learning: the role of civil society from middle-income countries in effective development cooperation

  2014

  Civil society organisations (CSOs) from middle-income countries can play multiple strategically important roles in effective development cooperation. Beyond demanding transparency and accountability around the aid that their own countries still receive, they can add signifi cant value to development cooperation provided to other countries.  
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  Learning social accountability together: civil society facilitated South-South cooperation in India, Bangladesh and Cambodia

  Civil Society & South-South Co-operation, 2014

  Asian cities have been central drivers of Asia’s economic growth in the last few decades. However, a democratic deficit in many small and medium size Asian cities means municipalities fail to deliver key service provisions to citizens, and civil society engagement in urban governance and institutions remains very limited.
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  South-South knowledge sharing for the inclusion of the urban Poor- India-South Africa Praxis

  Civil Society & South-South Co-operation, 2014

  Shack/Slum Dwellers International (SDI) is a social movement of the urban poor which began in India, networked initially in Asia and then moved to South Africa, and to the other parts of Africa.
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  Beyond the new deal: global collaboration and peacebuilding with BRICS countries

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2014

  Development in fragile and conflict-affected contexts is both complex and contested. The New Deal for Engagement with Fragile States, endorsed by 35 countries and six organisations, is the current focus of efforts to harmonise aid approaches.
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  Challenging development cooperation? A literature review of the approaches of the emerging powers

  Research Institute for Work and Society, KU Leuven, 2013

  Looking at existing literature, this paper discusses the major ways in which the emerging powers, in this isnstance Brazil, India, China and South Africa (the BICS) are challenging the development cooperation policies and practices of the ‘tradition’ development actors. The author highlights ten ways in which the BICS are are challenging development cooperation:
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  Brazil, India, China and South Africa in agriculture and food security in Malawi

  Research Institute for Work and Society, KU Leuven, 2014

  This paper describes the involvement of four of the so-called emerging powers - Brazil, India, China and South Africa - in development cooperation activities regarding agriculture and food security in Malawi. The prime focus is on the activities and policies of governmental actors, although also development cooperation initiatives of other development actors are mentioned.
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  Adding new spices to development cooperation. Brazil, India, China and South Africa in health, agriculture and food security

  Research Institute for Work and Society, KU Leuven, 2013

  In recent years, the four so-called emerging powers or economies - Brazil, India, China and South Africa (the BICS) - have gained considerable academic, policy and media attention for their activities in development cooperation. Some authors argue that these countries employ innovative and alternative approaches to development cooperation than the traditional, i.e. OECD-DAC donors.

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