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Millennium Development Goals Scenarios to 2015 and Beyond: An Integrated Micro-Macro Modelling Approach
Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2014The Philippines has made considerable progress in attaining the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). However, achieving all the targets remains a daunting challenge, with goals for poverty, education, and maternal mortality unlikely to be attained by 2015. Focus has now shifted to informing the post-2015 development agenda, based on future scenarios for the macroeconomy and the MDGs.DocumentEurAfrique? Africa and Europe in a new century: seminar report
Centre for Conflict Resolution, University of Cape Town (UCT), 2008This report examines the relationship between Africa and Europe in the 21st Century, and investigates whether this relationship is one of habit or is of real strategic importance to both parties.DocumentUser right as a mezzanine capital investment: Innovations in infrastructure debt financing
Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, India, 2014Traditional modes of ¤financing infrastructure have slowed down in the wake of the global ¤financial crisis and an increasing asset-liability mismatch for commercial banks. Structural constraints of infrastructure projects lead to low ratings, thereby precluding institutions with long term liabilities from fi¤nancing them.DocumentDevelopment Banks from the BRICS
Institute of Development Studies UK, 2015The BRIC acronym was created at the beginning of the 2000s to represent a group of four fast-growing economies –Brazil, Russia, India and China – and was changed to BRICS in December 2010 with the inclusion of South Africa.DocumentTaming the dragon? Defining Africa's interests at the Forum on China-Africa Co-operation (FOCAC): policy brief
Centre for Conflict Resolution, University of Cape Town (UCT), 2009China is already an increasingly influential actor in future international relations, as its economy and geo-political interests continue to expand. African countries will continue to be important to Beijing, as China’s phenomenal economic growth is likely to increase its demand for Africa’s strategic resources, notwithstanding the global financial crisis of 2008/2009.DocumentGood governance facades
Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2015Fashions come and go in the development community. When a policy idea becomes popular, some governments implement a cosmetic variant of the policy. What looks like development, are institutional façades; pretty from the outside, ugly from the inside. A good governance façade can be introduced deliberately to mislead observers and stakeholders to cover political theft.DocumentAchieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in Africa
Centre for Conflict Resolution, University of Cape Town (UCT), 2013Progress towards achieving the Goals has been slow, but far from uniform across Africa.DocumentOverview of Civil Society engagement in the Post - 2015 Development Agenda
Knowledge Partnership Programme, 2013This paper provides conference proceedings of the Civil Society Consultation around the Post-2015 Development Agenda, held 11 September 2013, which aimed to identify Indian aspirations within a common framework in general and within the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) frame in specific to also list the possible replacements for the MDGs.DocumentWhat after the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in 2015? Achievements of MDGs, future prospects and recommendations for India
Knowledge Partnership Programme, 2013The discussion on the post-2015/post-MDGs process presents a vital opportunity for India to play a leadership role in international affairs. India has the chance to address key domestic challenges as well as to shape global norms in ways that protect its interests. This Newsletter includes:DocumentPost - 2015 Development Agenda - India National Consultation Report: Youth Constituency
Knowledge Partnership Programme, 2013This National consultation report highlights the issues and concerns of Indian youth. The issues and concerns of the youth were treated holistically and therefore self-reflection and sharing of personal experiences were key processes which allowed participants to share freely.Pages
