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    Institutions, incentives and service provision: bringing politics back in

    Effective States and Inclusive Development Research Centre, 2013
    This paper outlines a conceptual framework for analysing the politics of service provisioning. The paper uses as its point of departure the well-known “accountability framework” of relations between citizens, clients and service providers, laid by the World Bank.
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    Natural resource extraction and the possibilities of inclusive development: politics across space and time

    Effective States and Inclusive Development Research Centre, 2013
    The extraction of minerals and hydrocarbons lies at the core of modern economic and social development. This paper addresses institutional and political relationships that govern the interactions between natural resource extraction, economy and society with a focus on the mining and hydrocarbon sectors.
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    Politics, informality and clientelism – exploring a pro-poor urban politics

    Effective States and Inclusive Development Research Centre, 2014
    This paper explores what has been learnt about how to instigate, negotiate or otherwise secure pro-poor government in towns and cities of the global South. The paper explains that with competition for scarce resources, the processes of urban development, and specifically the acquisition of land and basic services, are intensely political.
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    Imagining South Africa’s Foreign Investment Regulatory Regime in a Global Context

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2015
    International trade and investment have been around for a long time. The quest for resources has manifested itself through trade and, as time evolved, has been realised through wars of conquest, friendship, commerce and navigation treaties, colonialism, gunboat diplomacy
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    Mining value chains and green growth in South Africa: A conflictual but intertwined relationship

    Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies, South Africa, 2015
    The development of mining value chains is conflictual but deeply intertwined with the goal of sustainable development.  The response of mining value chains to the shift to a green economy cannot be business-as-usual and requires a proactive answer by business, Government, labour, non-governmental organisations and the research community in support of sustainable development.
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    The United Nations Post-2015 Agenda for Global Development: perspectives from China and Europe

    Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik / German Development Institute (GDI), 2014
    This publication focuses on scholarly discourses and policy challenges in China and Germany. Articles from The German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE), also cover European perspectives while chapters from the Shanghai Institutes for International Studies (SIIS) extend to the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa).
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    The Contingent Reserve Arrangement: a redesign of the International Monetary System

    Research and Information System for Developing Countries, 2015
    The BRICS countries established the New Development Bank (NDB) and the Contingent Reserve (CRA) Arrangement at their sixth Summit at Fortaleza, Brazil on 15 July 2014. This policy brief examines the implications of the CRA both for the international monetary system (IMS) and how far it meets the needs of the individual BRICS countries. It looks at:
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    Reconfiguring international financial institutions: the BRICS Initiative

    Research and Information System for Developing Countries, 2015
    This paper examines the implications of the establishment of the New Development Bank (NDB) and the Contingent Reserve Arrangement (CRA) for the international financial system and for the BRICS countries.
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    Heading for the hills: risk avoidance drives den site selection in African wild dogs

    PLoS ONE, 2014
    Compared to their main competitors, African wild dogs (Lycaon pictus) have inferior competitive abilities and interspecific competition is a serious fitness-limiting factor. Lions (Panthera leo) are the dominant large carnivore in African savannah ecosystems and wild dogs avoid them both spatially and temporally.
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    What was the contribution of the Long Term Mitigation Scenario process to South African climate mitigation policy?

    Mitigation Action Plans and Scenarios, 2015
    The Long Term Mitigation Scenario (LTMS) process lasted two years and was a combination of modelling and facilitated stakeholder engagement, which provided the South African Cabinet with a set of scenarios describing what the country could do to mitigate climate change.

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