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    Making it happen: Oxfam’s proposals for the post-2015 framework

    Oxfam, 2014
    This paper puts forwards Oxfam’s proposals for what new goals and targets should be included in the post-2015 development agenda, and how they can be designed to bring about lasting change.
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    Infrastructure and its role in Brazil’s development process

    International Research Initiative on Brazil and Africa, 2014
    During the “lost decade” of the 1980s, when Brazil underwent a serious debt crisis, investments in infrastructure withered. By the early 1990s, Brazil faced the necessity of substantially modernising its infrastructure sector.
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    Infrastructure and its role in Brazil’s development process - working paper

    International Research Initiative on Brazil and Africa, 2014
    The recovery in fortunes of the Brazilian economy since the middle of the 1990s encompasses a number of positive dimensions. Unlike in previous epochs, Brazil’s creditable growth performance has been associated with prolonged price stability and the avoidance of excessive accumulation of international debt.
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    Is there a new Brazilian model of development? Main findings from the IRIBA research programme

    International Research Initiative on Brazil and Africa, 2014
    It has been suggested that Brazil’s unexpected successes in the last two decades are the outcome of a new model of development, with strong inclusive growth at its core.
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    Trading places: accessing land in African cities

    Urban LandMark, 2013
    The developing world is urbanising fast, and new systems of urban land ownership, transfer and governance are emerging. This book tries to explain how these systems work and how they interface with wider markets and with existing land governance regimes, focusing particularly on Africa. 
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    Strategic research into national and local capacity building for DRM: Ethiopia pilot fieldwork report

    Strategic Research into National and Local Capacity Building for Disaster Risk Management (2013-2015), 2014
    To date there has been little formal, empirical research that has been conducted on capacity building for disaster risk management (DRM), and as a result international actors lack robust, evidence-based guidance on how capacity for DRM can be effectively generated at national and local levels.
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    Strategic research into national and local capacity building for disaster risk management: literature review version 1

    Strategic Research into National and Local Capacity Building for Disaster Risk Management (2013-2015), 2014
    This literature review has been conducted by Oxford Policy Management and the University of East Anglia as part of a multi-donor research project led by IFRC focusing on Strategic Research into National and Local Capacity Building for Disaster Risk Management.
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    Effects of urbanization on economic growth and human capital formation in Africa

    Program on the Global Demography of Aging, 2014
    Africa’s population is expected to grow to 2.3 billion by 2050, of whom 60% will be urban. This urbanisation is an important challenge for the next few decades. According to several research papers and reports, Africa’s urbanisation was, in contrast with most other regions in the world, not associated with economic growth in past decades.
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    Women and the formal economy

    Australian Agency for International Development, 2011
    This think piece by Lorraine Corner concerns women and the formal economy. Historically, in high income countries participation in the formal economy has been the most important route to women’s empowerment and increased gender equality.  The costs of gender inequality in the formal economy are high, especially in developing countries.
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    Iran’s subsidy reform from promise to disappointment

    Economic Research Forum, Egypt, 2014
    In December 2010, Iran implemented an ambitious subsidy reform program for energy; however, three years later, the program has stalled and energy prices are once again well below their global levels. The current paper reveals that two factors explain the failure of the program to continue after its successful implementation.

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