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    Regional integration in West Africa: the evolution of ECOWAS

    Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi, 2015
    The integration of West African states into the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) was largely influenced by the processes of integration in Western Europe, Latin America, and elsewhere in Africa. The rationale was both political and economic: to promote the unity of states and their faster economic development.
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    The dance of the elephant and the dragon: the promise and perils of Sino-Indian relations

    Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi, 2015
    India and China, two of the world's oldest civilisations, have had Ilittle historically relevant interactions with one other. Separated by the world's highest mountain range, the Himalayas, neither of these two nations has ever displayed expansionist tendencies vis-à-vis each other.
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    India-Korea CEPA: an appraisal of progress

    Research and Information System for Developing Countries, 2015
    The Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) between India and the Republic of Korea is the first such free trade agreement signed by India with an OECD country. It was signed in August 2009 after over three years of negotiations and came into effect on 1 January 2010.
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    Bolsa Família after Brasil Carinhoso: an analysis of the potential for reducing extreme poverty

    International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2013
    The Bolsa Família Programme (Programa Bolsa Família– PBF) is a monthly cash transfer from the Brazilian federal government to poor and extremely poor families enrolled in the Single Registry of Social Programmes. Since 2009, transfers last for a minimum period of two years, regardless of changes in household income.
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    Social technologies and public policies in Brazil

    2015
    Tthe definition of Social Technologies (STs)  encompasses aspects of innovation in the use of technologies, interaction with the community, and the potential to transform social realities and to be scaled up and replicated in other contexts.
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    Social programmes and job promotion for the BRICS Youth

    International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2014
    Besides scaling up and improving the operationalisation of the initiatives designed to offer credit, work opportunities and vocational training to the youth, the BRICS nations, like all the nations of the globe, are faced with the pressing duty of finding means of including the youth productively in the labour market, in ways that genuinely represent the ambitions of this stage in the lifecycle
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    Preliminary observations on social security and health care systems of the BRICS

    International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2015
    This summary provides some preliminary findings of research on social security and health care policies in the BRICS countries. Thus far, our research demonstrates some basic institutional information about the social security and health care policies of the BRICS countries, as well as about their complementary policy aims. Social security (old-age pensions):
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    Reviving the dialogue with Pakistan: a new agenda for India

    Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies, India, 2015
    This paper argues that despite the recent downswing in the bilateral relations between India and Pakistan, there is currently an opportunity to reshape the mutual dialogue process and make it credible and productive.
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    Global AgeWatch Index 2015: insight report

    HelpAge International, 2015
    The Global AgeWatch Index assesses the factors determining the social and economic wellbeing of older people around the world. As well as global analysis, this year the Index is focusing on the regions, hearing from older people themselves and looking at the widely varying geographic trends. It also includes data on ageing in the BRICS countries.
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    China’s dams & regional security implications: an Indian perspective

    Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies, India, 2015
    One of the characteristics of China’s “peaceful rise” has been its endeavour to control environment, demonstrated mainly by its dam-building policy. This paper underlines that China has been actively diverting river waters in its territory for different purposes.

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