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  Understanding the Rising Powers' contribution to the Sustainable Development Goals

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2015

  Rising powers such as Brazil, India and China have been criticised for being obstructive in the negotiations on the post-2015 development agenda. The start of the United Nations (UN) negotiations saw high expectations for the role of these countries in shaping the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This leadership has not materialised.
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  South Africa, the Indian Ocean and the IBSA-BRICS equation: reflections on geopolitical and strategic dimension

  Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi, 2013

  South Africa's entry into the Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS) forum in 2011 alongside its membership in the trilateral forum of India-Brazil-South Africa (IBSA) raises a number of issues in the nature of trends analysis. These have to do with the relationships among the
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  Capital flows in the quantitative easing era: building resilience in emerging economies

  Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi, 2015

  Unconventional Monetary Policies (UMPs), initially designed to resuscitate domestic growth in advanced economies, have now permeated into the deepest cracks of the global financial system.
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  Introduction: making change happen – citizen action and national policy reform

  Zed Books, 2010

  How has citizen
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  BRICS: emergence of health agenda

  International Organisations Research Institute, 2014

  Health is an indispensable public good. At the national level, it has been manifested in the commitment of the BRICS members of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa to scale up health financing. At the global level, it is evidenced by the international community progress on the three health-related Millennium Development Goals.
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  Effect of breastfeeding promotion interventions on breastfeeding rates, with special focus on developing countries

  BMC Public Health, 2011

  Given the recognised benefits of breastfeeding for the health of the mother and infants, the World Health Organisation (WHO) recommends exclusive breastfeeding (EBF) for the first six months of life. However, the prevalence of EBF is low globally in many of the developing and developed countries around the world.
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  Vitamin A supplements for preventing mortality, illness, and blindness in children aged under 5: systematic review and meta-analysis

  British Medical Journal, 2011

  Vitamin A refers to a subclass of retinoic acids long understood to help regulate immune function and to reduce morbidity of infectious diseases. Vitamin A is required for normal functioning of the visual system, maintenance of cell function for growth, epithelial integrity, production of red blood cells, immunity, and reproduction.
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  International success stories in reducing undernutrition: strategic choices, policy actions and lessons

  Public Health Foundation of India, 2011

  The overall burden of stunting in developing countries is estimated to have reduced from 40 per cent to 29 per cent. Reductions in undernutrition have not always demonstrated a direct relationship with economic development and progress of various countries indicates that there is no one solution to improving nutrition.
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  Infant-feeding patterns and cardiovascular risk factors in young adulthood: data from five cohorts in low- and middle-income countries

  International Journal of Epidemiology, 2010

  Infant-feeding patterns may influence lifelong health. This study tests the hypothesis that longer duration of breastfeeding and later introduction of complementary foods in infancy are associated with reduced adult cardiovascular risk.
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  Assessing the global effect of trade facilitation: evidence from the MIRAGE model

  Economic Research Forum, Egypt, 2011

  This paper contributes to the empirical literature on trade facilitation by capturing the complexity of the trade facilitation by using ad-valorem equivalents (AVEs) of administrative barriers estimated from a gravity model. Furthermore, the paper introduces trade facilitation in the multiregional and multi-sectoral CGE model, MIRAGE.

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