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    Shifting paradigm: how the BRICS are reshaping global health and development

    Global Health Strategies, 2012
    BRICS' (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) foreign assistance spending has been growing rapidly and these countries have been exploring opportunities for more formal collaboration among themselves and with developing countries. International organisations have also started looking to the BRICS as potential donors and health innovators.
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    South-South cooperation in health and pharmaceuticals: emerging trends in India-Brazil collaborations

    Research and Information System for Developing Countries, 2011
    Health is emerging as an important area for collaboration among emerging economies. The health sector is an area in which India and Brazil have increasingly collaborated, bilaterally and in several international forums. The author of this paper argues that such collaboration has added new thrust to the process of South-South cooperation.
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    Climate change, adaptation, and formal education: the role of schooling for increasing societies' adaptive capacities in El Salvador and Brazil

    Ecology and Society, 2012
    This paper examines the influence of formal education in determining the adaptive capacity of the residents of two low-income settlements where climate-related disasters are recurrent: Los Manantiales in San Salvador (El Salvador) and Rocinha in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil).
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    The Strategic Triad: Form and Content in Brazil’s Triangular Cooperation Practices

    2007
    Triangular cooperation, in which two countries form a partnership to lend technical assistance to a third country, is a growing model of technical cooperation in the developing world. This paper asks: why do developing countries participate in triangular cooperation, and how are these arrangements different from bilateral and multilateral linkages?
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    Resurgent continent?: Africa and the world: emerging powers and Africa

    London School of Economics, 2010
    Over the last fifteen years, emerging powers have made significant inroads into Western political and economic dominance in Africa. The result is a diversification of external actors involved across a range of sectors of the African economy.
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    Negotiating climate change

    Taylor and Francis Group, 2012
    Because the 15th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 15) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Copenhagen, Denmark, 2009, failed to reach an agreement on emissions commitments beyond 2012, studying negotiation strategies of country delegations remains relevant.
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    Technology roadmap: hydropower

    International Energy Agency, 2012
    This report lays out a roadmap for doubling global hydroelectricity production by 2050, noting that since 2005 new capacity additions in hydropower have generated more electricity than all other renewables combined. It highlights that the potential for additional hydropower remains considerable, especially in Africa, Asia and Latin America.
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    Planning for a low carbon future: lessons learned from seven country studies

    Energy Sector Management Assistance Programme [World Bank / UNDP], 2012
    Developing countries are faced with the dual challenge of reducing poverty while improving management of natural capital and mitigating the emission of greenhouse gases (GHG) and local pollutants. The challenge is particularly acute for large, rapidly growing economies, such as India, China and Brazil.
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    Impacts of megacities on air pollution and climate

    World Meteorological Organization, 2012
    Over half of the world’s population resides in urban areas and this number is projected to nearly double by 2050. This report provides an initial assessment of available information on air pollution and climate impacts in megacities globally.
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    The good multilateralists: Brazil and South Africa in the new area of multilateralism

    2010
    This article examines the instrumental nature of South African and Brazilian foreign policy within the framework of both countries’ commitment to multilateralism and if this has been rising as part of a new form of shallow multilateralism or a regenerated regionalism of the South.

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