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    Arc Finance

    Arc Finance is a global non-profit that brings together practitioners, funders, pro-poor enterprises, and end-users to develop solutions for access to finance for clean energy and water.
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    International development: ideas, experience, and prospects

    Development Ideas, 2014
    Thinking on development informs and inspires the actions of people, organizations, and states in their continuous effort to invent a better world. Produced by Devlopment Ideas and published by IDRC, this volume examines the ideas behind development: their origins, how they have changed and spread over time, and how they may evolve over the coming decades.
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    Development Ideas

    Development Ideas is a space for thinkers and practitioners to learn, share and debate about international development—its origins, how it has changed and spread over time, and how it may evolve
  • Document

    Social networks and micro finance

    Centre for Micro Finance, India, 2012
    This summary reviews a number of studies that deal with the issues of social networks and finance, the role of informal institutions within networks and econometrics of studying social networks.
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    Centre for Micro Finance, India (CMF)

    The Centre for Micro Finance aims to improve the accessibility and quality of financial services for the poor through rigorous research, knowledge dissemination and evidence-based policy outreach.
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    International Research Initiative on Brazil and Africa (IRIBA)

    Brazil has emerged as a globally significant economic power in the last decade, combining accelerated growth with falling poverty and inequality.
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    Ageing, poverty and neoliberalism in urban South India

    New Dynamics of Ageing, 2010
    Using the example of old age poverty in the Indian city of Chennai, formerly Madras, this research situates old age poverty and inter-generational relations within a multi-level framework that ranges from global economic forces to household resource allocation, taking in government policy, public discourse and gender and age discrimination.
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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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    Pension design with a large informal labor market: evidence from Chile

    Institute of Labor Economics, Bonn, 2014
    Over the last three decades, many governments have considered or introduced fully-funded, privately-managed, individual accounts-based pension programmes. Chile was the earliest and most influential example of such a reform in 1980, and the only one for which more than 29 years of data are available.
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    What you need to know about the 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil

    2014
    Produced by the Secretariat for Social Communication (SECOM) of the Office of the Presidency of Brazil, this document offers a brief overiew of the current and expected benefits that Brazil will receive from hosting the 2014 Football World Cup.

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