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Deepening India’s engagement with the least developed countries: a critical analysis of India’s Duty-free Tariff Preference Scheme
Knowledge Partnership Programme, 2014India became the first among emerging economies to announce a duty-free facility for LDCs. It did so during the first India-Africa Forum Summit in April 2008. This is not a coincidence, for Africa is home to 34 of the 49 LDCs, and is therefore the one region where international development efforts should be focused.DocumentScoping Study: Review on food and nutrition security: India’s domestic story and scope to build global partnerships
Knowledge Partnership Programme, 2014Between 1950 and 2012 India’s foodgrain production has gone up by five times, whereas its population increased during this period by roughly three and a half times.DocumentSouth-South technology transfer low carbon building technologies: market assessment report, Malawi
Knowledge Partnership Programme, 2014The high rate of urbanisation in Malawi puts tremendous pressure on the entire building material sector. With constraints in supply of material and demand far outstripping supply, both the quality of material and the application (house) has degraded to an alarming extent. This has resulted in poor quality and increasing construction costs.DocumentWorkshop report: Food and nutrition security: building global partnerships through South-South cooperation
Knowledge Partnership Programme, 2014A workshop was organised on 16th April, 2014 on ‘Food and Nutrition Security: building global partnerships through south-south cooperation’ by DFID under its Knowledge Partnership Program at India Habitat Centre, New Delhi.DocumentNutrition security of women and children in India: opportunity for building partnership with Low Income Countries (LIC)
Knowledge Partnership Programme, 2014Malnutrition is often incorrectly perceived merely as a food problem. Under nutrition, hunger and food insecurity are not the same thing. Malnutrition is a complex multi-determinant problem. Malnutrition is a result of impact of immediate causes of malnutrition - diet and infection.DocumentFood Security in India Scope to build global partnerships through South-South knowledge cooperation
Knowledge Partnership Programme, 2014Despite many caveats, gaps and continuing challenges, there is a great deal that the Indian experience in ensuring greater food security to its people, can offer as learning to other countries of the South.DocumentBCIM economic cooperation: prospects and challenges
Centre for Policy Dialogue, Bangladesh, 2007This study is an attempt to explore the potentials for expanding trade and investment under the ambit of sub-regional cooperation comprising four contiguous countries of Eastern South Asia, which includes the two fast growing economies – India and China, and the two developing economies – Bangladesh and Myanmar (BCIM).DocumentInnovation and additionality for development finance: looking at Asia
Centre for Policy Dialogue, Bangladesh, 2013The issue of introducing innovation in financing came into discussion at Monterrey in response to the recurring failure of most developed countries to live up to their commitment to enhance flows of official development assistance (ODA) to the developing countries in order to attain the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).DocumentA roadmap for RIC
Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi, 2014The Russia-India-China (RIC) grouping is the only body that brings together the three largest Asian countries at a time when there is a churning in the existing security architecture in the region. But, RIC seems to have lost steam amidst the alphabet soup of multilaterals in which the three countries are engaged, despite some efforts lately to rejuvenate the forum.DocumentIndia-Sri Lanka bilateral free trade agreement: six years performance and beyond
Research and Information System for Developing Countries, 2007India-Sri Lanka Bilateral Free Trade Agreement signed in 1998 was a pioneering attempt in the direction of trade liberalisation in South Asian region. This paper examines the performance of the Agreement in the first six years of its coming into being and draws lessons from its success that could be relevant in the context of South Asia Free Trade Agreement (SAFTA) and other such initiatives.Pages