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    Brazil’s Role in Environmental Governance: Analysis of Possibilities for Increased Brazil-Norway Cooperation

    Fridtjof Nansen Institute, 2011
    This report examines the role played by Brazil in connection with certain international negotiations, such as the climate negotiations and the CBD. It identifies the driving factors that have influenced environmental politics and standards in Brazil, and take note of conflicts that must be discussed when Norway is seeking expanded cooperation with Brazil.
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    Where will the World’s Poor Live? Global Poverty Projections for 2020 and 2030

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2012
    A ‘double bottom billion’ or 80 per cent of the world’s $2 poor (2 billion people) live in middle-income countries (MICs). In contrast there are 500 million $2 poor in low-income countries (LICs). Even with growth, world poverty is projected to remain split 50/50 between LICs and MICs until 2030.
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    Private Foundations, Business and Developing a Post-2015 Framework

    2012
    Businesses operating in developing countries should use their influence to strengthen national government systems, rather than bypassing them if progress is to be made on global poverty reduction. Businesses should use their influence to strengthen national government systems instead of bypassing them. Businesses and private foundations must be included in global public policy forums. Private f
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    Organisational Performance Review of the Norwegian People’s Aid

    Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2012
    Organisational performance reviews are part of Norad’s quality assurance of its cooperation with civil society organisations. NPA’s main strategy for its international work is to support popular organisations that work to influence government towards the fulfillment of democratic rights and a just distribution of power and resources in society.
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    MDGs 2.0: What Goals, Targets and Timeframe?

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2012
    The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are widely cited as the primary yardstick against which advances in international development efforts are to be judged. At the same time, the Goals will be met or missed by 2015. It is not too early to start asking what's next?
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    Horizon 2025: Creative Destruction in the Aid Industry

    Overseas Development Institute, 2012
    This paper aims to stimulate debate on the future of the international development architecture and explores how far some of today’s major development agencies are likely to be exposed to the resulting pressures to change course, emulate the disruptors or face irrelevance.
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    Dissonance in Development. Foreign aid and state formation in Malawi

    Noragric, Department of International Environment and Development Studies, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2011
    This PhD thesis focuses on certain characteristics of the state and of state formation in Malawi, with particular emphasis on the effects of development aid.
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    World economic and social survey 2012: in search of new development finance

    United Nations Development Policy and Analysis Division, 2012
    The World Economic and Social Survey (WESS) 2012 focuses on innovative ways to finance sustainable development. It notes that while the need for aid remains high, many donors have cut back on development assistance due to difficult financial times. The report highlights that the potential for innovative development finance is particularly high in the area of fighting climate change.
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    Aid for trade in small and vulnerable economies

    Commonwealth Secretariat, 2009
    It is clear that groups of “aid for trade” (AfT) recipient countries differ according to a variety of factors and needs. This discussion paper highlights the rationales for providing AfT to a specific group of developing countries, namely small and vulnerable economies (SVEs), and evaluates the effectiveness of SVEs’ AfT.
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    Recurrent cost boom threathens Millennium Development Goals

    Danish Institute for International Studies, 2010
    At the September 2010 UN summit on the Millennium Development Goals the Secretary-General stressed that tremendous progress in school enrolment, disease control and access to clean water had been achieved. This policy brief addresses a question that he did not talk about. How shall the achievements in relation to the goals be sustained beyond January 1, 2016?

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