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  Pensions and other social protection benefits for older persons: insights from the ILO World Social Protection Report 2014/15

  2014

  Public social security pensions are essential tools for ensuring income security for women and men as they grow older. This income, along with access to quality health services, is necessary for the dignity and well-being of older persons, and imperative to realise their rights.
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  Gender and climate change in the Indian Himalayas: global threats, local vulnerabilities, and livelihood diversification at the Nanda Devi Biosphere Reserve

  Copernicus Publications, 2015

  This paper presents a case study from the Nanda Devi Biosphere Reserve outlining the implications of climate change for women farmers in the area, as well as highlighting the potential for ecotourism as a key livelihood asset. It argues that ecotourism could strengthen the adaptive capacity of local communities' in Uttarakhand, India, more broadly.
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  Co-producing ineffective states: social knowledge, social policy and social citizenship in Africa and in development

  Effective States and Inclusive Development Research Centre, 2012

  This paper explores the links between social knowledge, social policy and state forms in Sub-Saharan Africa. Its central argument is that the capacities of states to establish inclusive welfare regimes for citizens are limited by the ways in which states themselves are organised, including the constitution of state society relations.
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  Strategic framework for resilient livelihoods in earthquake affected areas of Nepal

  International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, (ICIMOD), Nepal, 2015

  This working paper explores the strategic choices and options for developing resilient livelihoods post-earthquake in Nepal.
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  Preserving the African elephant for future generations

  South African Institute of International Affairs, 2015

  African elephants face an escalating poaching crisis due to an explosion in demand for ivory, mostly in China. Over 100 000 elephants were killed illegally between 2010 and 2012. This paper synthesises the relevant economic literature on elephant conservation, which informs the construction of a game theoretic model. The model is designed to
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  Climate change impacts on livestock

  Climate Change Agriculture Food Security, 2015

  This working paper summarizes projected climate change impacts on livestock across Africa.
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  Learning with older people about their transport and mobility problems in rural Tanzania

  HelpAge International, 2015

  HelpAge conducted a study in Kidabaga, Mwatasi and Mhanga villages, Kilolo District, in Iringa region to build baseline data to promote and monitor mobility‐focused interventions for rural older people. Three approaches were used to conduct the study:
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  Changed regimes, changed priorities? Economic and social policies after the 2011 elections in Tunisia and Egypt

  Economic Research Forum, Egypt, 2015

  Even though systematic, detailed, and methodologically sound explanations of the events commonly referred to as the Arab spring will take time to be completed, it is fair to assume that large-scale popular protests and the subsequent transformation of political regimes were  prompted by a combination of socio-economic and political factors.
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  Country-specific oil supply shocks and the global economy: a counterfactual analysis

  Economic Research Forum, Egypt, 2015

  This paper investigates the global macroeconomic consequences of country-specific oil-supply shocks. The paper is both theoretical and empirical.
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  Mining value chains and green growth in South Africa: A conflictual but intertwined relationship

  Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies, South Africa, 2015

  The development of mining value chains is conflictual but deeply intertwined with the goal of sustainable development.  The response of mining value chains to the shift to a green economy cannot be business-as-usual and requires a proactive answer by business, Government, labour, non-governmental organisations and the research community in support of sustainable development.

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