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    The politics of regional inequality in Ghana: state elites, donors and PRSPs

    Effective States and Inclusive Development Research Centre, 2014
    There are concerns that the MDGs’ focus on achieving poverty reduction targets may have led to a neglect of the poorest segments of society.
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    We can also make change: piloting participatory research with persons with disabilities and older people in Bangladesh

    HelpAge International, 2015
    The aim of the research presented in this report was to understand better the experiences of social, political and economic exclusion of persons with disabilities and older people in Bangladesh from their own perspectives. Although the facts of exclusion are widely documented, the reality of it is less well understood.
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    Access to finance: mind the gender gap

    Economic Research Forum, Egypt, 2015
    Studies on financial inclusion have so far focused on assessing determinants to overall access to finance, but limited attention has been given to financial inclusion from a gender point of view, and on the gaps that separate females and males with regards to their access to the opportunities and services provided by the financial sector.
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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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    Is there feminization of poverty in Egypt?

    Economic Research Forum, Egypt, 2015
    Poverty in Egypt has been rising steadily over the last 15 years, from 16.7% in 1999/2000 to 26.2%in 2012/2013. An important question is how female headed households have fared over this period of deteriorating social welfare.
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    Inequality of opportunities of educational achievement in Turkey over time

    Economic Research Forum, Egypt, 2015
    This study investigates inequality of opportunity in educational achievements in Turkey over time. For this purpose, the author uses test scores of PISA in mathematics, science and reading achievement of 15-year-olds over the period 2003-2012.
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    Global development goals: leaving no one behind

    2013
    Aimed at policy-makers, practitioners and interested observers, this publication aims to encourage renewed commitment to the existing MDGs, inspire creativity in achieving them and generate debate on the main issues that will shape the course of the next decade of international development. offers analysis and recommendations in both these areas.
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    The United Nations Post-2015 Agenda for Global Development: perspectives from China and Europe

    Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik / German Development Institute (GDI), 2014
    This publication focuses on scholarly discourses and policy challenges in China and Germany. Articles from The German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE), also cover European perspectives while chapters from the Shanghai Institutes for International Studies (SIIS) extend to the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa).
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    Post 2015: how emerging economies shape the relevance of a new agenda

    Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik / German Development Institute (GDI), 2013
    The rise of emerging economies has fundamentally changed the context in which negotiations on a post-2015 agreement take place. The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) were an agenda driven by traditional donors and North-South relations – a model of global relations that is outdated today.
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    Facing the facts: the truth about ageing and development

    Age International, 2015
    The number of people in the world has doubled since 1970, and will grow further, from 7 to 10 billion, by 2050. But less well-known is the fact that the world is ageing as well as growing. There are currently 868 million older people in the world, and by 2050 this number will have reached more than 2 billion – 21 per cent of the world’s population.

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