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    Capitalising on public transport: reducing GHG emissions in Latin American cities

    Evidence and Lessons from Latin America, 2013
    Energy efficient modes of transport - like Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) systems, bicycles and electric taxis - are providing an effective means for reducing urban greenhouse gas emissions in Latin American cities. The transport sector is one of the largest contributors to global GHG emissions, both worldwide and in the Latin America region.
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    Feito no Brasil? Made in South Africa? Boosting technological development through local content requirements in the wind energy industry

    Energy Research Centre, 2013
    This report focuses on local content requirements (LcR) and their implementation in the wind energy sectors of Brazil and South Africa. The aim is to stimulate jobs in new industries and accelerate technological development.
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    Brazil–Africa technical co-operation: structure, achievements and challenges

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2013
    Increasingly, Brazil is regarded both within and outside of Africa as a reliable development partner. The policy brief offers an overview of Brazil’s technical co-operation with Africa, analysing the way it is structured, its major achievements so far and the challenges it faces at present. Such challenges include signs of institutional overstretch and contradictions.
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    A closer look at India-Brazil-South Africa (IBSA) trade

    Trade Law Centre for Southern Africa, 2013
    In June 2003, the foreign ministers of India, Brazil and South Africa (IBSA) met in Brasilia to discuss forging closer ties between their nations.
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    The IBSA Dialogue Forum ten years on: examining IBSA cooperation on trade

    Trade Law Centre for Southern Africa, 2013
    The emergence of new forms of South-South cooperation is reflected most notably in the growing importance of South-South trade and investment flows and the increasing prominence of various alliances and coalitions of large developing and emerging economies, such as the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) grouping and the India-Brazil-South Africa Dialogue Forum (IBSA Forum).
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    Africa-BRICS cooperation: implications for growth, employment and structural transformation in Africa

    UN Economic Commission for Africa, 2013
    What effect could trade with, and investment and aid from, the BRICS (Brazil, Russian Federation, India, China and South Africa) have on growth, employment and structural transformation in Africa? How can Africa maximize the benefits of its engagement with the BRICS, and minimize the risks?
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    BRICS – South Africa’s way ahead?

    Trade Law Centre for Southern Africa, 2013
    South Africa’s admission to the group was motivated by China and supported by Russia. Its accession to the BRICS generated much discussion about the country’s suitability to be part of the formation. One of the real issues raised is that South Africa does not measure up to the other BRIC economies in terms of population, trade levels and performance, and growth rates.
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    Accelerating reductions in undernutrition: what can nutrition governance tell us?

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2012
    This paper uses a political economy approach to examine questions around the lack of progress toward nutrition goals in six countries: Bangladesh, Brazil, Ethiopia, India, Peru and Zambia. All have medium to strong nutrition governance indicators, but only some are on track to meet the Millennium Development Goal and others have made no progress at all.
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    Launch of the Civil20, Moscow, Russia

    South African Foreign Policy Initiative, 2013
    After many years of lobbying by international civil society for a formal civil society process and space at the G20, the Civil20 was launched under the G20 Presidency of Russia, and a meeting of the Civil20 was held in Moscow, Russia in June 2013. This policy brief from SAFPI looks at the purpose behind Civil20, and  gives an overview of the meeting.
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    Fighting maternal and child malnutrition: analysing the political and institutional determinants of delivering a national multi-sectoral response in six countries: a synthesis paper

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2013
    Governance is a critical yet understudied component in the nutrition agenda, according to this paper’s authors. The paper uses a political economy approach to examine questions around the progress or lack thereof toward nutrition goals in six countries: Bangladesh, Brazil, Ethiopia, India, Peru and Zambia.

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