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    Pushing India’s small-scale industries to the economic forefront

    Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi, 2015
    India currently stands on the brink of being reckoned as the fastest growing economy in the world: In 2016, its projected growth rate is 7.6 percent. Prime Minister Narendra Modi's flagship 'Make in India' programme is expected to herald India into its era of growth.
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    Measuring ‘subjective resilience’: using people’s perceptions to quantify household resilience

    Overseas Development Institute, 2015
    How should we measure a household’s resilience? As resilience gathers momentum on the international stage, interest in this question continues to grow. So far, efforts to measure resilience have largely focused on the use of ‘objective’ frameworks and methods of indicator selection.
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    South African Futures 2035: Can Bafana Bafana still score?

    Institute for Security Studies, 2015
    It is evident that, as much as the country has made progress, South Africa has made an incomplete transition to inclusive politics and an incomplete transition towards inclusive economics.
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    Recalibrating South Africa’s role in global economic governance: a Nigerian perspective on some strategic challenges

    Global Economic Governance Africa, 2015
    A Nigerian perspective on South Africa’s position in global economic governance, particularly in relation to its role in the BRICS grouping and the G-20, provides critical insights into the potential benefits of a reinvigorated Nigerian–South African partnership.
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    Transforming Egypt: innovation and diversification as drivers of growth

    Economic Research Forum, Egypt, 2015
    Egypt has benefited from a brief period of considerable economic growth before the 2011 revolution. Still, such growth has not substantially reduced poverty or underemployment nor raised the quality of employment in the country.
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    Pension reform: Securing Morocco’s elderly

    Economic Research Forum, Egypt, 2015
    In the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), large groups of the population are not covered by social security programs. Access to health, education and a pension are essential to the well-being of the individual and contributes to the reduction of poverty.
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    The contribution of female health to economic development

    Program on the Global Demography of Aging at Harvard University, 2015
    This paper analyses the economic consequences for less developed countries of investing in female health. In so doing it introduces a novel micro-founded dynamic general equilibrium framework in which parents trade off the number of children against investments in their education and in which the authors allow for health-related gender di¤erences in productivity.
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    Access to finance: mind the gender gap

    Economic Research Forum, Egypt, 2015
    Studies on financial inclusion have so far focused on assessing determinants to overall access to finance, but limited attention has been given to financial inclusion from a gender point of view, and on the gaps that separate females and males with regards to their access to the opportunities and services provided by the financial sector.
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    Supply or demand? How politics influences the implementation of the MGNREGA in Rajasthan

    Effective States and Inclusive Development Research Centre, 2014
    The recent performance of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) has been a matter of debate. Rajasthan, especially, performed impressively in the initial years of its National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS), but experienced a sharp decline (even relative to other states) in outcomes from 2010 onwards.
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    How should Uganda grow?

    Effective States and Inclusive Development Research Centre, 2014
    Income per capita in Uganda has doubled in the last 20 years. However, economic growth has been concentrated in non-tradable activities and faces challenges, including rapid rural population growth, high dependency ratios and an approaching oil boom of uncertain size and duration.

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