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    Migration and remittance flows: recent trends and outlook , 2013 - 2016

    World Bank, 2013
    As many emerging markets are facing a weakening balance of payments, the importance of remittances as a source of foreign currency earnings is increasing. Remittances are now nearly three times the size of official development assistance and larger than private debt and portfolio equity flows to developing countries. Main comments from this brief include:
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    Disaster Risk Management Strategy: Towards Resilient Communities

    Agency for Technical Cooperation and Development, 2013
    Between 1992 and 2012, disasters caused more than 1.3 million deaths, affected more than 4.4 billion people and led to US$ 2 trillion in economic damages and losses around the world. This Disaster Risk Management Strategy explains how the Agency for Technical Cooperation and Development (ACTED) anticipates disasters and advocates for more upstream consideration of their occurrence.
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    Investments to end poverty

    Development Initiatives, 2013
    The end of poverty in all its forms is at the centre of discussions on global goals post-2015. So, it is essential to mobilise all resources and to focus on those, like aid, that can make the strongest contributions to the poorest people, so that they deliver as much poverty reduction as possible for every dollar.
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    We can also make change

    Sightsavers International, 2013
    Voices of the Marginalised is a pilot project, focusing on Bangladesh, bringing the perspectives of those who live in poverty or who are highly marginalised, including those with disabilities, older people and people living with mental health problems, into post-2015 policymaking.
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    State of civil society 2013

    CIVICUS - World Alliance for Citizen Participation, 2013
    This second edition of the State of Civil Society (2013) has been produced by CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Participation, and draws from nearly 50 contributions by people active in civil society all over the world.
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    Ending undernutrition: Our legacy to the post 2015 generation

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2013
    This paper, written in partnership with the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation and used as a key resource for the Nutrition for Growth Summit in London, June 8, 2013, deals with some of the negative impacts that undernutrition has on child development and, consequently, on other social indicators such as adult health and economic productivity.
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    Population dynamics in the post - 2015 development agenda: report of the Global Thematic Consultation on Population Dynamics

    International Organization for Migration, 2013
    Mega population trends at the national and global levels – continued rapid population growth, population ageing, urbanisation and migration – not only frame the entire development debate, they demand a reconsideration and re-conceptualisation of what will be the main challenges for the post - 2015 development agenda.
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    Blue marble: The Pacific in the post-2015 development agenda

    Pacific Institute of Public Policy, 2013
    On 7 December 1972 members of the Apollo 17 moon mission created an image that would redefine the world. The Big Blue Marble photograph, as it became known, depicted a fragile Earth hovering in the void.
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    The Pacific experience in developing policy and legislation on disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation

    International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (ISDR), 2013
    This study explores and aims to unpack the drivers and process to develop Joint National Action Plans on Disaster Risk Management and Climate Change (JNAPs), primary DRM legislation, and sustainable development plans addressing DRR and CCA in three Pacific island countries: the Cook Islands, Solomon Islands and Tonga. It also discusses the experiences implementing these instruments.
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    Equitable access to sustainable development: relevance to negotiations and actions on climate change

    Mitigation Action Plans and Scenarios, 2013
    The effectiveness of any agreement depends on the perception of fairness by all parties involved.

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