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  New Development Bank: a contribution to development finance

  Research and Information System for Developing Countries, 2015

  The BRICS countries at their sixth Summit held at Fortaleza, Brazil on 15 July 2014 decided to establish the New Development Bank (NDB) and the Contingent Reserve Arrangement (CRA). This brief examines in this policy brief:
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  Gender discrimination among older women in India: main report

  Agewell Foundation, 2015

  Older women have more critical problems than older men. Due to social and traditional family structure they are forced to live with many limitations. Hence they find themselves marginalized and isolated all the time. As women live longer than men, a larger number of older women have to live a life of a widow in their silver years.
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  Gender discrimination among older women in India: special report on Uttar Pradesh

  Agewell Foundation, 2015

  Older women have more critical problems than older men in Uttar Pradesh. Due to social and traditional family structure they are forced to live with many limitations. Hence they find themselves marginalized and isolated all the time. As women live longer than men, a larger number of older women have to live a life of a widow in their silver years.
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  National Development Banks in the BRICS: Lessons for the Post-2015 Development Finance Framework

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2015

  In 2015, the framework to succeed the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) will be agreed. As described in the outcome document of the United Nations (UN) Rio+20 conference, The Future We Want, the mobilisation and effective use of stable, sufficient and suitable development finance must be a crucial part of this framework.
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  The BRICS Contingent Reserve Arrangement and its position in the emerging global financial architecture

  South African Institute of International Affairs, 2015

  In its present shape and size the BRICS Contingent Reserve Arrangement (CRA) should be regarded as symbolic and exploratory rather than as a substantive challenger to the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
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  BRICS Insights 6: BRICS in their regions: exploring the roles of regional finance

  Global Economic Governance Africa, 2015

  The diversity of sources of international development finance has increased dramatically in recent years. The large emerging powers of BRICS are central contributors to this phenomenon. While they have provided international finance for decades, the quantity and ambition of this finance have seen real advances since 2000. Yet little is known about the details of this lending.
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  BRICS Insights 3: The rise of development finance institutions South Africa, BRICS and regional strategy

  Global Economic Governance Africa, 2015

  In contrast to the normative edge to South Africa’s foreign policy under former president Nelson Mandela and the focus on Africanism under former president Thabo Mbeki, foreign policy has taken a hard-edged posture under President Jacob Zuma’s administration.
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  BRICS Insights 2: New South–South co-operation and the BRICS New Development Bank

  Global Economic Governance Africa, 2015

  The establishment of the BRICS New Development Bank (NDB) marks a milestone in BRICS co-operation and is a symbolic achievement in the reform of global financial governance. It will help to promote the financing of infrastructure among developing countries, improve global governance and propel the revival of the global economy.
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  BRICS Insights 1: India’s experience with multilateral financial institutions: insights for the BRICS New Development Bank

  Global Economic Governance Africa, 2015

  In the wake of India’s economic growth in the past two decades, the country has played an increasingly prominent role in providing foreign assistance to low-income countries, particularly in Asia and increasingly in Africa.
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  Emerging seed markets: the role of Brazilian, Chinese and Indian seeds in African agriculture

  Future Agricultures Consortium, 2014

  In recent years, three of the largest emerging powers, Brazil, China and India, have all brought about incredible agricultural revolutions and seeds have played a big part in that story. Nowadays, their seed markets are all within the world’s top ten in terms of value and their companies are eager to expand into new markets, particularly in Africa.

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