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  The limited promise of agricultural trade liberalization

  Research and Information System for Developing Countries, 2009

  It has become an article of faith in international trade negotiations that farmers in developing countries have much to gain from agricultural trade liberalisation. This paper assesses the evidence for such claims. It concludes that the promise of agricultural trade liberalisation is overstated, while the costs to small-scale farmers in developing countries are often very high.
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  Assessment of crime and violence in Mozambique and recommendations for violence prevention and reduction

  Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa, 2012

  Mozambique also suffers from country specific crime challenges. For example, levels are burglary and livestock theft are ranked highest in all of Africa with 13% and 19% of respondents respectively reporting victimisation.
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  REDD in Brazil: Two case studies on early forest carbon offset projects

  Heinrich Boell Foundation, 2014

  This article explores, using two case studies, some of the controversies that can arise when conservation groups or specialist companies, often supported by international agencies like the World Bank, arrive with their forest carbon pilot initiatives.
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  Information for a developmental approach to mitigation: Linking sectoral and economy wide models for Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Peru and South Africa

  Mitigation Action Plans and Scenarios, 2014

  This paper examines approaches for integrating sector- and economy-wide models, including socioeconomic factors, in five developing countries.
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  BRICS and South-South cooperation in medicine: emerging trends in research and entrepreneurial collaborations

  Research and Information System for Developing Countries, 2012

  Though there is huge spectrum of South-South collaboration, led by the economies from the BRICS countries in the medical field there is a lack of studies examining the extent and characteristics of these collaborations and evaluating their benefits.
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  Financial crisis of 2008 and shifting economic power: is there convergence

  Research and Information System for Developing Countries, 2013

  There is a vigorous debate about shifting economic power in the world system. It is believed that the developed countries and in particular the US are losing their predominance in the world economy and the so-called emerging economies (EEs) are becoming more important.
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  Demands for media democratisation and the Latin American ‘New Left’: Government strategies in Argentina and Brazil in comparative perspective

  German Institute of Global and Area Studies, 2014

  This paper examines the determinants of government strategies vis‐à‐vis dominant media actors in the Latin American context, where the media’s role in democratic politics is increasingly being questioned. It compares the first two Kirchnerist presidencies in Argentina with the first two Workers’ Party‐led governments in Brazil.
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  REDD+ as performance-based aid: general lessons and bilateral agreements of Norway

  2013

  REDD+, when it officially became part of the international climate agenda in 2007, was an idea about payment to countries and projects for reducing emission from forests, with funding primarily from carbon markets.
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  Financing readiness: insights from the Amazon Fund and Congo Basin Forest Funds' efforts to reduce emissions from deforestation and degradation

  Overseas Development Institute, 2014

  Finance to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation, forest conservation, sustainable management of forests and the enhancement of forest carbon stocks (REDD+) has been innovatively structured to support ‘readiness activities’ prior to performance-based support.
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  Instituting REDD+: An analysis of the processes and outcomes of two pilot projects in Brazil and Tanzania

  International Institute for Environment and Development, 2013

  REDD readiness is about developing national strategies for REDD+ including the necessary systems to ensure reduced DD, encompassing systems for monitoring/carbon accounting and distribution of international compensations. Establishing REDD+ is a process of change not least regarding actions on the ground.

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