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  Firm behaviour and the introduction of new exports: evidence from Brazil

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2012

  One of the main objectives of economic development policy is to achieve export diversification. This paper contributes to understanding the process of export diversification by analysing firm level determinants in Brazil during the period 2000–2009.
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  Zambia Institute for Policy Analysis and Research (ZIPAR)

  The Zambia Institute for Policy Analysis and Research (ZIPAR) is a Think-Tank whose mandate is to conduct research and analysis primarily, but not exclusively for policy formulation, implementation an
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  Regionalism and economic integration in Africa: a conceptual and theoretical perspective

  African Capacity Building Foundation, 2014

  A well-established strand of the literature on regionalism and economic integration has made clear that economic, geopolitical, and socio-cultural relationships across the globe, for which Africa is no exception, have been changing rapidly in the last few decades. African leaders
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  Review paper: The impacts of business support services for small and medium enterprises on firm performance in low-and middle-income countries: a systematic review

  The Campbell Collaboration, 2015

  Business support interventions in low and middle-income countries (LMICs) direct a large amount of resources to SMEs, with the assumption that institutional constraints impede small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) from generating profits and employment at the firm level, which in turn is thought to impede economic growth and poverty reduction.
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  The effects of market-based reforms on access to electricity in developing countries: A systematic review of the evidence on effectiveness, cost-effectiveness and mechanisms

  International Initiative for Impact Evaluation, 2015

  More than 1.3 billion people in developing countries remain without any access to electricity. In many developing countries, complete areas are without electricity, often due to prohibitive costs of centralized electricity supply given low population densities or extreme climate and topography.
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  Mobile phone interventions for improving economic and productive outcomes for farm and non - farm rural enterprises and households in low and middle - income countries

  International Initiative for Impact Evaluation, 2013

  The link between economic growth, development and the ability to communicate over distances is a topic that has been extensively debated in available literature. There are three possible impacts of improved communication technologies: they are beneficial in development terms, they are neutral; or they are harmful.
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  Plant variety protection in developing countries: A tool for designing a Sui Generis plant variety protection system: An alternative to UPOV 1991

  2015

  A new tool to assist developing countries in designing a “custom made” plant variety protection suitable for the seed and agricultural systems that prevail in developing countries has been published by an international group of NGOs.   It was presented on the occasion of the Sixth Meeting of the Governing Body of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food
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  Drivers of regional integration: value chains, investment and new forms of co-operation

  South African Institute of International Affairs, 2015

  This collection of papers is a combined initiative of Economic Policy Forum (EPF) member think tanks and is the result of two round-table discussions under the Regional Integration research stream.
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  Central America: a South African foreign policy adventure

  Institute for Global Dialogue, South Africa, 2015

  South Africa established official relations with various States in Central America from 1993 onwards, thereby establishing its post-Apartheid era outlooks on interactions with the region.
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  Australia, India and Japan trilateral: breaking the mould

  Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi, 2015

  After the first trilateral dialogue between Australia, India and Japan in June 2015, another trilateral process immediately got underway. This paper makes an assessment of the prospects of this new formation in the light of history, contemporary coalescing interests, and the inadequacies of the existing trilaterals.

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