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    MSEs informality and productivity: evidence from Egypt

    Economic Research Forum, Egypt, 2015
    This paper assesses the impact of informality on household enterprise performance in terms of productivity and size of output of micro and small enterprises (MSEs). Furthermore, it pinpoints informality determinants with respect to different types of obstacles that impede their growth.
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    India-Bangladesh connectivity: possibilities and challenges

    Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi, 2015
    Enhancing bilateral relations between India and Bangladesh promises to provide exponential benefits for both countries. For India, in particular, transit and transshipment across Bangladesh is important as it is expected to boost the economy of India’s Northeast.
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    Stimulating solutions to energy access through the use of innovation prizes

    Ideas to Impact, 2015
    Ideas to Impact is a DFID-funded programme which is experimenting with the use of innovation prizes to solve development challenges. The programme covers three broad thematic areas: water and sanitation, energy access and climate adaptation. This paper examines the major problems relating to energy access and the potential application of innovationto prizes to these challenges.
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    Deepening India’s engagement with Africa through better market access

    Knowledge Partnership Programme, 2015
    In order to provide ‘trade’ stimulus to Least Developed Countries (LDCs), India launched a Duty-Free Tariff Preferences (DFTP) scheme in 2008. DFTP scheme provides duty free treatment to about 98 per cent of tariff lines and 48 LDCs are beneficiary of this scheme. Preliminary evidence indicates the effect of the scheme has been limited and varies from country to country.
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    What role for natural resources in Botswana’s quest for economic diversification?

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2015
    Botswana is typically perceived as a development anomaly on the continent. With a stable democracy and strong economic growth since 1966, the country’s success is in danger of being taken for granted. Diamond revenues are likely to decline in the near future. The government has historically depended on these, through its partnership with De Beers, to fund its development plans.
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    Access, Technology development and national IPR policy

    Research and Information System for Developing Countries, 2015
    The Government of India is engaged in drafting a new National IPR (Intellectual Property Right) Policy. This is the first time that the Government has undertaken such a task. So far there has been no formal policy statement encompassing all the Intellectual Property Rights, mentioned in the Agreement on Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS Agreement).
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    The G77 + China’s role in trade multilateralism: advocating for South agency

    Institute for Global Dialogue, South Africa, 2014
    Developing countries have for several decades sought to align their aspirations and collectively express their interests in global fora. The largest intergovernmental organisation of developing countries, the Group of 77 and China (hereafter G77), marked its 50th jubilee in June 2014.
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    Anticipating the South African tenure in the Chair of the G77: the context and contours

    Institute for Global Dialogue, South Africa, 2014
    South Africa has a precious opportunity to use the chairpersonship of the G77 to help transform the agency of the global south from making lofty undertakings to taking concrete measures to implement what has been agreed. It has the opportunity to strengthen the G77 secretariat by attracting more financial resources and ensuring sound and efficient management systems are in place.
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    The Durban BRICS Summit: partnership for development and integration proceedings report

    Institute for Global Dialogue, South Africa, 2013
    The media hype and international attention that centered on Durban during the fifth BRICS Summit (26–27 March 2013) has faded.
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    The Bali outcome: “Whiter World Trade Negotiations?”

    Institute for Global Dialogue, South Africa, 2014
    The Bali meeting has been hailed in some quarters as a historical achievement that would tilt the balance in favour of the Doha Development Round of World Trade Organisation (WTO) negotiations, raising hopes that this will smooth the way for multilateral trade negotiations that have faced many difficulties in the past decade.

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