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  Unlocking business dynamism to promote green (sustainable and inclusive) growth: learning from innovation in emerging economies

  Overseas Development Institute [ES], 2013

  The Overseas Development Institute, working alongside Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit and the International Poverty Reduction Center in China, have been developing a collaborative, research, policy engagement and knowledge transfer exchange programme. The aim is to provide stakeholders with firm evidence of ways to promote effective investment in green growth.
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  Mobilizing climate investment: the role of international climate finance in creating scaled-up low-carbon energy

  2013

  It is estimated that developing countries need US$ 531 billion per year additional investment in energy supply and demand technologies, between now and 2050, in order to limit global temperature rise to two degrees above pre-industrial levels.
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  FDI from BRICs to LICs: Emerging Growth Driver?

  International Monetary Fund, 2011

  Despite the rapid increase in FDI flows to LICs, there have been relatively few studies that have specifically examined these flows. The paper looks at BRIC FDI to LICs with a special focus on Chinese FDI to sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries, and aims to broadly assess its macroeconomic impact using case studies.
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  Rising Powers in International Development: an annotated bibliography

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2013

  The Rising Powers – a category that includes the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) as well as other key countries such as Mexico, Turkey and Indonesia – are establishing themselves as an influential presence in the global development landscape, and playing an increasingly important role in shaping prospects for poverty reduction in lowincome countries.
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  Social security coverage extension in the BRICS: a comparative study on the extension of coverage in Brazil, the Russian Federation, India, China and South Africa

  International Social Security Association, 2013

  The five countries of the BRICS, Brazil, the Russian Federation, India, China and South Africa, are facing some common challenges with regard to ageing of their populations, urbanisation, vulnerability to environmental shocks, increasing labour market fragmentation, growing income disparity, and the need to more fully exploit and leverage information and communications technologies.
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  Engaging BRICS: Challenges and Opportunities for Civil Society

  Oxfam India, 2012

  The emergence of BRICS represents an important change in the global political economy. There is anticipation that the BRICS – building on their own lessons and initiatives – will play a progressive role on economic and social issues at regional and global levels. The critical view  includes doubts about the nature and coherence of the group.
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  Measurement, reporting and verification (MRV) for low carbon development: learning from experience in Asia

  Institute for Global Environmental Strategies, Japan, 2013

  This policy report seeks to contribute to further development of measurement/monitoring, reporting and verification (MRV) modalities and methodologies by providing conceptual clarification of MRV and outlining 16 case studies of MRV schemes. The concept of MRV is described as entailing multiple types, which should be distinguished to avoid conceptual confusion.
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  The quiet revolution in staple food value chains: enter the dragon, the elephant, and the tiger

  Asian Development Bank, 2012

  Is there a difference between the current and the traditional value chains of staples in Asia? This study investigates how domestic staples value chains are structured and performing in three Asian countries (Bangladesh, China and India) in recent years.
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  Meeting India's renewable energy targets: the financing challenge

  Climate Policy Initiative, 2012

  This paper analyses the challenges for designing Indian national policy to attract investment in wind and solar energy at a reasonable cost. It also examines the impact of national and state policies on various classes of renewable energy investors, as well as the overall relative costs or benefits of policies on the final cost of renewable energy projects.
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  Creating market support for energy efficiency: India’s Perform, Achieve and Trade scheme

  Climate and Development Knowledge Network, 2013

  India, recognising the challenge of pursuing economic growth in a sustainable manner, has developed an energy efficiency scheme to govern large energy consumers.

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