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    Financial structure matters for economic growth

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2009
    There is an unresolved debate over whether banks or markets are better at providing financial services and stimulating economic growth. Recent studies showing that neither bank-based nor market-based systems are particularly linked with growth, and they fail to take account of different national experiences.
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    Social impacts of global cotton production

    International Cotton Advisory Committee, 2008
    This paper reviews and categorises the most significant social science studies of labour and social impacts in cotton cultivation in ten focus countries, identified as the largest producers by volume. It identifies and evaluates the key existing data and information sources on the social impacts, positive and negative, of global cotton cultivation.
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    Global financial crisis and recession: what could happen to major emerging economies?

    Centre for Development Policy and Research, SOAS, 2009
    Since late 2008, the financial crisis spawned in the U.S. has spread quickly across the globe, enveloping both developed and developing countries. Most of the major developed countries are now mired in recession and many export-led economies in the developing world are following suit.
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    A Critical Review of Selected Time Use Surveys

    2007
    Time use surveys provide information on the activities people perform over a given time period - generally a day or a week - as well as how much time they spend on each of the specified activities.
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    Changing international aid dynamics

    International Development Research Centre, 2008
    The ‘traditional’ aid environment is no longer solely driven by OECD donor countries. The emergence – and increasing influence – of developing nations as significant funders of ODA (Official Development Assistance) has introduced a new element to the donor-recipient relationship.
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    Providing support to urban landless and homeless people

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2009
    Urban Poor Funds are an institutional innovation. They support federations of savings groups formed by homeless people or residents of informal settlements. They are changing low-income households’ relations with government agencies, enabling legal solutions to housing problems, promoting cohesion, and providing access to public infrastructure and services.
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    Can non-timber forest products provide a way out of poverty?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2009
    Over the last three decades, policymakers and conservation non-government organisations have focused on the sustainable production and commercialisation of non-timber forest products (NTFPs). Some have seen this as a potential way forward for rural development in tropical forested areas, with the possibility of achieving both conservation and development outcomes.
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    Proposals for contributions of emerging economies to the climate regime under the UNFCCC post 2012

    German Federal Environmental Agency, 2008
    This report provides a detailed overview of the national circumstances, emission levels, mitigation potential and measures for the major developing countries of Brazil, China, India, Mexico, South Africa and South Korea.
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    Voices from the South. The impact of the global financial crisis on developing countries

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2008
    The global financial crisis is already beginning to have an impact on the ‘real economy’ in poorer countries around the world. However, the debate in the west about the impact of the crisis has largely ignored its impact on the developing world, and the voices of people from these countries are rarely heard.
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    South-South cooperation: for shared prosperity and inclusive globalisation

    INSouth, 2008
    This paper details excerpts from the inaugural address by Indian external affairs Minister, Shri Pranab Mukherjee at the academic forum of India, Brazil, and South Africa (IBSA) Partnership for Shared Prosperity and Inclusive Globalisation.

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