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    China and the African oil sector: channels of engagement, motives, actors and impacts

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2011
    China’s rapid economic growth and urbanisation puts pressure on the country’s scarce domestic natural resources, which are essential for powering the ever-growing economy. Consequently, China is increasingly engaging with low income countries to ensure access to overseas natural resources, particularly energy resources. In search of affordable oil resources, China has turned to Africa.
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    Report on South-South cooperation in Ibero-America 2010

    Secretaría General Iberoamericana, 2010
    There has been no major shift in the trend of international development cooperation in Ibero-America in recent years. This report explores the evolution of South-South cooperation modalities as practiced by Ibero-American countries - in particular horizontal South-South cooperation (bilateral and regional) and triangular cooperation.
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    Marrying new global players with the international aid transparency initiative: the future of aid data governance

    University of Birmingham, 2011
    Development aid forms an important link between rich countries, poor countries and poor people. But there have been serious concerns raised by aid critiques about the quality and accuracy of the global aid data.This paper explores the relationship between established players and new global players as they both grapple with rival definitions of aid quality.
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    DAC (traditional) & non DAC (emerging) donors at the crossroads: the problem of export credits

    University of Birmingham, 2011
    Given the growth in the number of official donors, and especially when non Development Assistance Committee (DAC) donors like China and India are continuously increasing their respective aid financing, it becomes apparent that exclusion of their aid data will prohibit getting a full picture of the future aid architecture.
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    China Africa in agriculture: a background paper on trade, investment and aid in agriculture

    International Poverty Reduction Center in China, 2010
    This paper investigates China-Africa exchanges in agriculture, which is a relatively small component of the China-Africa trade.
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    Agricultural transformation, growth and poverty reduction

    Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2010
    This report summarises discussions from the ‘Agriculture, food security and rural development’ conference, held in Bamako, Mali, April 2010. The conference was organised to exchange experiences and promote learning on topics related to promoting growth and reducing poverty.
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    The potential role of non-traditional donors’ aid in Africa

    International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development, 2012
    Increasing South-South cooperation will result in more development assistance for African countries. This paper challenges the perception that non-traditional aid lacks transparency and contains little or any conditionality thereby undermining the development efforts of ‘traditional’ donors.
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    Non-DAC donors and humanitarian aid: shifting structures, changing trends

    Global Humanitarian Assistance, 2011
    In the past few years the role of ‘non-DAC donors’, a group of donors that sits outside the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)’s Development Assistance Committee (DAC) member group, has gained great prominence and has generated much interest within the international development community.
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    Post-crisis prospects for China-Africa relations

    African Development Bank, 2011
    China’s rapid growth has transformed its relationship with Africa; it is now Africa’s third largest trading partner. The China-Africa relationship could be described as ‘commodities-for-infrastructure’, although a shift to broader cooperation on development is now evident.
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    The understanding and practice of development in China and the European Union

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2011
    China’s role in international development rose to prominence in the mid-2000s, when new Chinese actors began engaging in public and private activities in the global South.

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