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    Mobilising and mediating global medicine and health citizenship: the politics of AIDS knowledge production in rural South Africa

    S. Robins / Institute of Development Studies UK, 2009
    The paper investigates the ways in which global health messages and forms of health citizenship are mediated by AIDS activists in rural South Africa. It focuses on how international health agencies and NGOs engage with local communities through AIDS prevention and treatment programmes.
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    Chinese agriculture development cooperation in Africa: narratives and politics

    L. Buckley / Institute of Development Studies UK, 2013
    Chinese agriculture engagements are redefining the 'aid‘ landscape, moving from a paradigm of development assistance to one of development cooperation mixed with investment. China‘s leadership asserts that this approach infuses new life into South-South cooperation and promot[es] the establishment of a fair and rational new international political and economic order.
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    Expanding agribusiness: China and Brazil in Ghanaian agriculture

    K. Amanor, / Institute of Development Studies UK, 2013
    This article examines the extent, framing and structure of Chinese and Brazilian investments in Ghana. It outlines the changing political economy of the agrarian sector, in the context of market liberalisation and the rise of agribusiness. The article examines the specificities of Chinese agricultural investments in Ghana in relation to wider investments and Chinese interests in the country.
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    South-South cooperation in Africa: historical, geopolitical and political economy dimensions of international development

    K. Amanor / Institute of Development Studies UK, 2013
    This article examines how neoliberal reforms mediate and influence relationships between emergent powers and African nations centred on agricultural development. It investigates the impact of South- South relations on the nature of development and technical cooperation, aid and investment, and on the configuration of relations between states, farmers and the private sector.
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    Transnational agrarian movements struggling for land and citizenship rights

    S.M. Borras Jr, J.C. Franco / Institute of Development Studies UK, 2009
    Rural citizens have increasingly begun to invoke perceived citizenship rights at transnational level, such that rural citizen engagements today have the potential to generate new meanings of global citizenship.
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    Education and conflict recovery: the case of Timor Leste

    P. Justino, M. Leone / Institute of Development Studies UK, 2011
    The Timor Leste secession conflict lasted for 25 years. Its last wave of violence in 1999, following the withdrawal of Indonesian troops, generated massive displacement and destruction with widespread consequences for the economic and social development of the country.
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    Using Local IT Solutions to Improve Local Government Tax Reform

    P. Wilson / Institute of Development Studies UK, 2015
    Appropriate information technology systems are critical to realising the local government tax reforms that are the focus of growing international attention.
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    Measuring the inclusivity of inclusive business

    E. Wach / Institute of Development Studies UK, 2012
    ‘Inclusive Business’ has enormous potential to contribute positively to development outcomes. Working through core business models, the ‘Inclusive Business’ approach requires minimal outside support and can often reach a scale unattainable by most direct development interventions.
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    Remittances and labour supply in post-conflict Tajikistan

    P. Justino, O.N. Shemyakina / Institute of Development Studies UK, 2012
    The 1992–1998 Tajik armed conflict claimed at least 100,000 lives. About 18 per cent of the country’s population was displaced in the first few years of the war. The majority of displaced and refugees returned to their homes by 1995.
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    Global engagements with global assessments: the case of the international assessment of agricultural knowledge, science and technology for development (IAASTD)

    I. Scoones / Institute of Development Studies UK, 2008
    The IAASTD – the International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge, Science and Technology for Development – which ran between 2003 and 2008, involving over 400 scientists worldwide, was an ambitious attempt to encourage local and global debate on the future of agricultural science and technology. 

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