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  Policy update: nationally appropriate mitigation actions (NAMAs) and carbon markets

  Ecofys, 2012

  Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions (NAMAs) and carbon markets are currently developing in parallel with increasing debate on how to link the two approaches. This paper explores the role carbon markets may play for NAMAs and the key issues around the compatibility of the two concepts.
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  Why monetary policy is irrelevant in Africa south of the Sahara

  School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 2010

  This policy note argues that the effectiveness of monetary policy relies on a viable domestic market for trading public securities, and a commercial banking sector willing and able to lend to the private sector. However, the paper deems that with the exception of South Africa, no country in the sub-Saharan region has these necessary conditions.
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  India’s foreign exchange reserves: a shield of comfort or an albatross?

  Economic and Political Weekly, India, 2008

  Many observers believe that India can rely on its foreign exchange reserves to weather a storm in the international financial markets. This paper, however, contests this view. Due to liberalisation, it argues, volatile foreign capital in India exceeds the country's foreign exchange reserves. A balance of payment crisis is not only possible but increasingly likely as:
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  Heterodox policies are better suited to address lack of access to credit and inflationary pressure due to supply shocks

  International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2008

  This paper explores the alternative framework for monetary and financial policies developed by Weeks and McKinley which includes expansionary fiscal policy, a managed exchange-rate regime and a monetary policy aiming at low real rates of interest. There is almost no evidence that low inflation rates promote growth.
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  United Nations Policy Notes for National Development Strategies

  The outcome document of the 2005 United Nations World Summit called on countries to prepare national development strategies, taking into account the international development goals agreed in the vario
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  Key Indicators 2007: inequality in Asia

  Asian Development Bank, 2007

  Over the last decade, high rates of economic growth have become more common in Asian countries, yet it is widely believed that inequalities have also grown in many countries. How correct is this perception, and how broadly does it apply to a region as diverse as developing Asia?
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  Bank of the South: toward financial autonomy

  Center for International Policy, 2007

  The establishment of the Bank of the South (BoS) is an ambitious and strategic step in South American regional integration. This short report discusses the potential and limitations of the bank. It argues that the BoS has a decisive role to play in reuniting a region divided by decades of neo-liberalism. Authors provide several recommendations for the BoS:
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  The Impact of Private Sector Growth on Poverty Reduction: Evidence from Indonesia

  SMERU Research Institute, Indonesia, 2007

  This paper assesses the effect of public and private sector growth on poverty in Indonesia. The impact of growth in different types of economic expenditures on poverty reduction is estimated empirically using fixed capital formation growth as the proxy for the private sector and growth in government spending as the indicator of the public sector.