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    Beyond the BICs: identifying the ‘emerging middle powers’ and understanding their role in global poverty reduction

    Brooks World Poverty Institute, University of Manchester, 2010
    Much attention has been focused on the BICs (Brazil, India and China) and how they are changing global politics and economics. However, there is also a further tier of emerging middle powers ‘beyond the BICs’ that are playing a more prominent role in regional and global arenas.
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    The role of civil society in decentralisation and alleviating poverty: an exploratory case study from Tanzania

    NADEL – Centre for Development and Cooperation (ETH Zurich), 2007
    In many developing countries decentralisation efforts have been planned and implemented as a means to improve service delivery to all citizens, to increase citizen participation, and to improve good governance at the sub-national level. However, until recently, poverty reduction has not been a central feature of decentralisation measures until recently.
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    Problematising civil society: on what terrain does xenophobia flourish?

    Atlantic Philanthropies, 2010
    This study examines whether there is a need to reconceptualise civil society organisations (CSOs) in South Africa, given the fragmented and uneven responses of CSOs to the May 2008 violence. The document states that with the end of apartheid, donors were keen to support the new legitimate government and looked to the new government to direct development.
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    The political economy of the MDGs: retrospect and prospect for the world’s biggest promise

    Brooks World Poverty Institute, University of Manchester, 2010
    This paper reviews the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) process, drawing some recommendations to feed into the debate concerning what will take their place in 2015 when it comes to an end.
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    Responding to the challenge of diversity in opium poppy cultivation in Afghanistan

    World Bank, 2006
    The chapter takes the view that there is a need for policy makers and development practitioners to better recognise in their work the diversity that is so evident both among opium poppy cultivators and across rural Afghanistan. To do otherwise would not only undermine the basic principles of equitable development but could work against the wider state-building and security efforts.
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    Religion, politics and governance in Pakistan

    International Development Department, University of Birmingham, 2009
    This paper examines the relationships between Muslim organisations and government in Pakistan. The paper explores the influence of religion on development policy formulation and public administration. In particular, the paper tries to investigate whether religion can play the role of a driver for change in pro-poor policy and practice.
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    Yemen: fear of failure

    Chatham House [Royal Institute of International Affairs], UK, 2008
    Yemen is the poorest nation in the Arab world, its location means it acts as a buffer zone between the Horn of Africa and Saudi Arabia and its president’s thirty year reign has been recently been struggling with a deteriorating security situation.
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    Arab Human Development Report 2009: challenges to human security in Arab countries

    Human Development Report Office, UNDP, 2009
    This report examines human development in the Arab world through a human security lens, calling on policymakers and other stakeholders to move away from a state-centric conception of security to one which also concentrates on the security of individuals, their protection and their empowerment.
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    Water poverty indicators: conceptual problems

    IWA Publishing, 2003
    In the wake of a growing concern about both the unchecked rise of poverty and the local and global consequences of water scarcity, the relationships between water and poverty are the object of a sprawling literature. Indicators are presented as indispensable tools for informing and orienting policy-making, comparing situations and measuring performance.
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    Poverty reduction, economic growth and democratization in sub-Saharan Africa

    Afrobarometer, 2009
    During the first decade of the 21st century, sub-Saharan Africa experienced its strongest period of sustained growth in decades. Economic indicators were up, and with them, many indicators of poverty witnessed marked improvements. But to what extent has Sub-Saharan Africa’s record of economic growth made a material difference in the everyday lives of ordinary Africans?

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