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    Brazil’s international development cooperation at a crossroads

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2014
    Brazil’s historic experience as an aid recipient, combined with the country’s relative lack of dependency on Northern funds to support its own development trajectory, has contributed to creating and sustaining a critical approach towards traditional aid.
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    Building mutual understanding for effective development

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2014
    In recent years a number of countries, referred to collectively as the rising powers, have achieved rapid economic growth and increased political influence. In many cases their experience challenges received wisdom on inclusive development. Research funded by traditional development donors has tended to focus on their own aid recipients.
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    Learning from India’s development cooperation

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2014
    In recent years, India has substantially increased the levels of its development cooperation. It has streamlined its development cooperation activities and put the principles of South-South Cooperation, including respect for national sovereignty, national ownership and independence, non-conditionality and
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    China's engagement in Africa: responding to growing tensions and contradictions

    BRICS Policy Center / Centro de Estudos e Pesquisas BRICS, 2013
    China’s involvement in Africa goes back more than fifty years. However, over the past decade or so its presence on the continent has been growing at a remarkable rate. Since 2000, China-Africa trade has increased twenty-fold, and Chinese direct investment in Africa more than thirty-fold.
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    Solidarity among brothers? Brazil in Africa: trade, investment and cooperation

    BRICS Policy Center / Centro de Estudos e Pesquisas BRICS, 2014
    South-South cooperation (SSC) emerged as a key Brazilian foreign policy instrument in the beginning of Lula’s presidency in 2003 and has generally been sustained by the government of President Dilma Rousseff. From the beginning, Brazil has emphasized SSC in Africa despite not having articulated an explicit foreign policy towards the region.
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    BRICS and the challenges of fighting inequality

    BRICS Policy Center / Centro de Estudos e Pesquisas BRICS, 2014
    The BRICS - Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa  - are protagonists in the spread of hopes throughout the globe to reduce poverty and social inequality, as well as the construction of a new world order.
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    Five fingers or one hand? The BRICS in development cooperation

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2014
    The BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) are increasingly prominent in development cooperation activities in low-income countries in Africa and worldwide, presenting a potential alternative to the development aid model of traditional donors.
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    Unintended effects in evaluations of Norwegian aid: a desk study

    Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2014
    Those responsible for development aid are increasingly concerned about producing documentary evidence of the results. Executers of aid projects and programmes are provided with result-focused tools, and all activities are routinely evaluated.
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    National REDD Policy Project Tanzania. End of project review. Final report

    The Norwegian Embassy in Tanzania, 2014
    The Norwegian Government funded REDD+ project portfolio in Tanzania is creating significant positive results across Tanzania. Along with the research project on climate change and a selection of pilot projects, the REDD+ Policy Project, implemented by Institute of Resources Assessment (IRA-UDSM) has helped lay the foundation for Tanzania’s future REDD activities.
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    Understanding South Africa’s role in achieving regional and global development progress

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2014
    As Africa’s most diversified, developed and (until recently) largest economy, South Africa occupies a unique position in the international development debate. It is an active player in global governance and development fora, maintains an extensive development partnership with its region, and is a member of the BRICS Forum of emerging powers (along with Brazil, Russia, India and China).

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