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  Innovating for the health of all: Global Forum update on research for health, volume 6

  Global Forum for Health Research, 2009

  This report focuses on incentives that drive innovation. For new technologies, people are generally familiar with ‘push’ and ‘pull’ incentives. Push incentives include public funding for research and tax breaks for private sector research and development; pull incentives include intellectual property, private markets, public procurement and prizes for innovation.
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  BRICs’ philosophies for development financing and their implications for LICs

  International Monetary Fund, 2012

  Flows of development financing from the BRICs (Brazil, Russia, India and China) to low income countries (LICs) have surged in recent years. Unlike aid from traditional donors, BRICs (excluding Russia) view their financing as primarily based on the principles of South-South cooperation, focusing on mutual benefits without attachment of policy conditionality.
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  Brazil as a development actor: South-South cooperation and the IBSA initiative

  Fride, 2008

  This report looks at Brazil as a development partner, its external perception as an important and crucial country for regional stability, and projection of its global identity as a ‘voice’ for the developing world in crucial international debates.
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  Brazil and China: South-South partnership or North-South competition?

  Brookings Institution, 2011

  This paper focuses on Brazil-China relations and sheds some light on the possibilities and limits of meaningful coalitions amongst emerging countries.
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  The global South and the international politics of climate change. Proceedings report of the international workshop: negotiating Africa and the global South’s interests on climate change

  Institute for Global Dialogue, South Africa, 2011

  This proceedings report captures the first half of the discussion at COP17 hosted in Durban, South Africa, in 2011 where the role of rising powers within the international climate change negotiations was discussed. Panellists in this report have been drawn from Brazil, India, China and South Africa (BASIC countries) to share their expertise on these multidimensional country positions.
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  Think piece on aid and development cooperation post Accra and beyond – steps towards a development dialogue for the 21st century: the example of EU, China and Africa

  European Network on Debt and Development, 2009

  This think piece explores some key aspects of the changes taking place in the international aid architecture in terms of the evolving relationships between so-called non-DAC (Development Assistance Committee of the OECD) and DAC donor countries. The paper focuses on the unfolding dynamic between China-Africa and western partners to Africa, such as the European Union (EU).
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  South-South cooperation: moving towards a new aid dynamic

  International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2010

  This article, published in the 20th issue of Poverty in Focus, looks at the increase of funding forms and activities of bilateral development assistance providers outside the Development Assistance Committee (DAC).
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  Background study for the Development Cooperation Forum: trends in South-South triangular development cooperation

  The United Nations Economic and Social Council, 2008

  This review of recent trends and progress in international development cooperation was prepared to inform the United Nations Secretary General and the high-level Development Cooperation Forum (DFC), held in 2008.
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  Triangular co-operation and aid effectiveness: can triangular co-operation make aid more effective?

  Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2009

  This paper explores the question of whether triangular cooperation can make aid more effective. It notes that many governments seem to think so, arguing that better results can be achieved when southern partners and DAC donors (members of the Development Assistance Committee of the OECD) join forces through triangular cooperation.
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  Africa’s Silk Road: China and India’s new economics frontier

  World Bank, 2007

  This report finds that Asian trade and investment in Africa hold great promise for Africa’s economic growth and development – provided certain policy reforms on both continents are implemented. It provides systematic empirical evidence on how the two emerging economic giants of Asia – China and India – now stand at the crossroads of the explosion of African-Asian trade and investment.

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