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  Policies for low carbon growth

  Overseas Development Institute, 2009

  The paper presents a review of low carbon growth policies in two high-income (UK and Germany), five middle-income (China, India, Mexico, Guyana and Nigeria) and two low-income countries (Bangladesh and Ethiopia).
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  Impacts of climate change on livelihoods: what are the implications for social protection?

  Climate and Disaster Governance Programme, 2009

  This paper explores how rural agricultural livelihoods may be affected by changes in climate. Exploring Ethiopian case studies, the author uses a combined Transformative Social Protection and Household Economy Approach to determine how social protection can contribute to adaptation plans - specifically for the poor and most vulnerable - in the context of a changing climate.
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  Low-carbon energy projects for development in Sub-Saharan Africa Unveiling the potential, addressing the barriers

  World Bank, 2008

  Sub-Saharan Africa has an opportunity of choosing a cleaner development pathway via low-carbon energy alternatives that can reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.
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  The impact of environmental and political influences on pastoral conflicts in Southern Ethiopia

  International Peace Research Institute, Oslo, 2010

  This paper attempts to understand the relationship between environmental and climatic factors on the one hand, and the conflict dynamics in the African Horn on the other hand. The paper recognises aspects like global climatic change and local political dynamics, which intensify the competition for scarce water and pasture, the degradation of natural resources and violent conflict.
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  Assessing vulnerability and adaptive capacity to climate risks: methods for investigation at local and national levels

  World Bank, 2009

  This paper presents the research and learning approach of a World Bank study, and offers emerging findings on policy, as well as institutional questions surrounding adaptation arenas in Bangladesh, Bolivia, Ethiopia, Ghana and Mozambique.
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  Private sector development is key to political development in Ethiopia

  Center for International Private Enterprise, 2010

  Ethiopia has been trapped in a vicious cycle of bad governance and bad economic policies for decades, resulting in an uncompetitive economy. This article discusses Ethiopia’s economy and governance and makes suggestions on how it can overcome the daunting developmental challenges.The issues discussed and the suggestions therein are:
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  Cash transfers: to condition or not to condition?

  Eldis Gateway to Development and Environment Information, 2009

  In response to the recent food crisis and global financial crisis, the G-20 countries and the World Bank announced increased spending on social protection programmes, including cash-based systems.
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  Does ‘improved’ sanitation make children healthier? Household pit latrines and child health in rural Ethiopia

  Young Lives, 2009

  Some 250,000 Ethiopian children die each year from poor sanitation, hygiene and water. Ethiopia has ambitious plans to ensure universal access to pit latrines in all rural areas by 2012. But will people use them?
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  Review of the Embassy’s development cooperation portfolio: climate change and environment “climate proofing and greening of the portfolio”

  Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2009

  This review of the Norwegian Embassy’s portfolio in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia identifies possible ways and means of addressing / integrating appropriate climate change and environmental concerns in existing programmes and projects.
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  Exploring new political alternatives for the Oromo in Ethiopia: report from Oromo Workshop and its after-effects

  Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2009

  This report aims to stimulate a thorough debate in a particular ethnic and social group – the Oromo of Ethiopia. The paper states that the Oromo people are in a crucial and unique situation. Indeed, their plans and actions during the coming years may be key to determining conditions of life in Ethiopia.

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