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  Looking back, looking ahead : land, agriculture and society in East Africa : a festschrift for Kjell Havnevik

  Nordic Africa Institute / Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, Uppsala, 2015

  Professor Kjell Havnevik is retiring from the Nordic Africa Institute (NAI) in 2015. For four decades, he has carried out research, taught and supervised students as well as participated in policy debates on different aspects of agriculture, the environment and African and international development policies. His output has been voluminous and is internationally recognised.
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  How does reducing years of compulsory schooling affect education and labor market outcomes in a developing country?

  Economic Research Foundation, India, 2015

  At the end of the 1980’s, Egypt introduced a policy change to its pre-university education system where the years of primary education decreased from six to five, reducing the overall years of compulsory education from nine to eight.
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  Social technologies and public policies in Brazil

  2015

  Tthe definition of Social Technologies (STs)  encompasses aspects of innovation in the use of technologies, interaction with the community, and the potential to transform social realities and to be scaled up and replicated in other contexts.
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  Social programmes and job promotion for the BRICS Youth

  International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2014

  Besides scaling up and improving the operationalisation of the initiatives designed to offer credit, work opportunities and vocational training to the youth, the BRICS nations, like all the nations of the globe, are faced with the pressing duty of finding means of including the youth productively in the labour market, in ways that genuinely represent the ambitions of this stage in the lifecycle
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  Food security in a climate perspective: what role could the private sector play regarding investment in smallholder agriculture in Ethiopia, Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania and Zambia

  Noragric, Department of International Environment and Development Studies, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2014

  The purpose of this study is to discuss different ways of implementing the "Food Security in a Climate  Perspective  strategy 2013-15" in  relation  to  support  to  private  sector  development and  public-private  partnership  (PPP)  as  regards  agriculture,  climate  change  and  food se
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  Does income growth relocate ecological footprint?

  Economic Research Forum, Egypt, 2015

  The aim of this paper is to investigate whether countries tend to relocate their ecological footprint as they grow richer. The analysis is carried out for a cross-section of 105 countries by employing the production and import components of the Ecological Footprint data of the Global Footprint Network belonging to the year 2006.
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  High mountain adaptation partnership: lessons learned in Nepal and Peru

  Climate Change Resilient Development project - Mainstreaming Adaptation for USAID, 2015

  Glacier-dominated mountains play a major role in providing water to large numbers of people. These glacier-dominated areas also pose unique challenges to downstream communities as they adapt to recent and continuing global climate change.
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  Strengthening the resiliency of dryland forest-based livelihoods in Ethiopia and South Sudan: A review of literature on the interaction between dryland forests, livelihoods and forest governance

  Center for International Forestry Research, 2015

  This literature review explores how political, economic and resource management policies and programs can reduce forest degradation and increase the contribution of forest goods and services to sustainable livelihood strategies.
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  Fossil fuels are dead, long live fossil fuels: Botswana’s options for economic diversification

  South African Institute of International Affairs, 2015

  Botswana is at a critical historical juncture. It has enjoyed a stable democracy since 1965 and strong, quality economic growth for the last few decades. However, the diamond revenues on which the country depends are likely to decline in the near future. Economic diversification is therefore a pressing policy concern.
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  Fiscal institutions and macroeconomic management in resource rich economies: the case of Yemen

  Economic Research Forum, Egypt, 2015

  The link between natural resource outcomes and the quality of institutions has attracted considerable attention in natural resource literature. But only very recently has its link to fiscal rules and institutions been discussed, focusing mainly on developed economies.

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