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    BRICS: a global trade power in a multi-polar world

    Transnational Institute, 2014
    Central to the narrative of emerging powers, and particularly the BRICS, is the issue of trade, as both the driver of their economic surge, the factor behind their growing economies and the platform it has given them to assert influence in global governance.
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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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    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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    Deepening India’s engagement with Africa through better market access

    Knowledge Partnership Programme, 2015
    In order to provide ‘trade’ stimulus to Least Developed Countries (LDCs), India launched a Duty-Free Tariff Preferences (DFTP) scheme in 2008. DFTP scheme provides duty free treatment to about 98 per cent of tariff lines and 48 LDCs are beneficiary of this scheme. Preliminary evidence indicates the effect of the scheme has been limited and varies from country to country.
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    Swine flu: challenges and impact on the Indian economy

    Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi, 2015
    The large-scale outbreak of infectious diseases can threaten the economic and regional stability of a country. In the recent past, HIV, H1N1 influenza (swine flu), H5N1 influenza (bird flu), SARS and Ebola epidemics and pandemics have affected people and economies of different lands. Swine flu has seen a worrisome spread in India recently. Given the
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    New Development Bank: a contribution to development finance

    Research and Information System for Developing Countries, 2015
    The BRICS countries at their sixth Summit held at Fortaleza, Brazil on 15 July 2014 decided to establish the New Development Bank (NDB) and the Contingent Reserve Arrangement (CRA). This brief examines in this policy brief:
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    National Development Banks in the BRICS: Lessons for the Post-2015 Development Finance Framework

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2015
    In 2015, the framework to succeed the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) will be agreed. As described in the outcome document of the United Nations (UN) Rio+20 conference, The Future We Want, the mobilisation and effective use of stable, sufficient and suitable development finance must be a crucial part of this framework.
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    The BRICS Contingent Reserve Arrangement and its position in the emerging global financial architecture

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2015
    In its present shape and size the BRICS Contingent Reserve Arrangement (CRA) should be regarded as symbolic and exploratory rather than as a substantive challenger to the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
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    BRICS Insights 6: BRICS in their regions: exploring the roles of regional finance

    Global Economic Governance Africa, 2015
    The diversity of sources of international development finance has increased dramatically in recent years. The large emerging powers of BRICS are central contributors to this phenomenon. While they have provided international finance for decades, the quantity and ambition of this finance have seen real advances since 2000. Yet little is known about the details of this lending.
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    BRICS Insights 3: The rise of development finance institutions South Africa, BRICS and regional strategy

    Global Economic Governance Africa, 2015
    In contrast to the normative edge to South Africa’s foreign policy under former president Nelson Mandela and the focus on Africanism under former president Thabo Mbeki, foreign policy has taken a hard-edged posture under President Jacob Zuma’s administration.

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