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    Emerging economies and the changing dynamics of development cooperation

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2018
    Almost two decades have passed since ‘emerging donors’– new providers of development cooperation – began to attract the attention of ‘traditional donors'. Comprehensive comparisons of the various features of different types of donors have thus been elaborated on as their economic and political roles have solidified.
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    Conflict-sensitive cash transfers: unintended negative consequences

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2017
    There are various risks – notably theft, diversion, corruption, security, targeting, misuse by beneficiaries, inflationary effects - associated with cash transfer programmes in fragile contexts. However, the literature indicates that – while different - these are not any greater than those associated with other forms of aid, e.g. vouchers or in-kind goods, and could even be less.
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    Costs of non-cooperation in South Asia: an illustration and way forward

    Research and Information System for Developing Countries, 2016
    The South Asian economic integration has remained afflicted with a narrative that is more often than not a negative one. As a part of this, the arguments put forth include the assertion that the region lacks in trade complementarities due to similarities in production structures.
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    Deepening trade and investment relations post-AGOA: three options for South Africa

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2016
    As the US and Africa look to engage at the 2016 annual African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) Forum under the theme of ‘Maximizing AGOA Now While Preparing for the Future beyond AGOA’, two pertinent issues come to the fore: leveraging AGOA until this programme of trade benefits expires in 2025, and considering the nature of trade relations post-AGOA.
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    Emergence of LoCs as a modality in India’s development cooperation: evolving policy context and new challenges

    Research and Information System for Developing Countries, 2016
    Development cooperation is an integral part of India’s foreign policy and India has been extending cooperation to its fellow developing countries even before its independence in 1947.
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    Paving the road ahead - China-Africa co-operation in the infrastructure sector

    Centre for Chinese Studies, University of Stellenbosch, 2016
    China has launched a number of initiatives regarding infrastructural development globally, with a specific focus on scaling up infrastructure throughout the African continent. The BRICS New Development Bank and Chinese infrastructure initiatives such as the China-led Africa Growing Together Fund (AGTF) are expected to play a significant role ranging from financing to technology transfer.
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    China's economic slowdown: assessment and implications for Africa

    Centre for Chinese Studies, University of Stellenbosch, 2016
    Three decades of average double digit growth has helped propel China into the world’s second largest economy with global economies increasingly reliant on China to drive economic growth.
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    Relocating China's foreign reserves

    School of Public Policy and Management of Tsinghua University, 2016
    The present global capitalism based on private property rights, free market competition and rule of law has taken shape shortly after World War II, which led to the first wave of contemporary international economic integration.
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    China's development finance to Africa: a media based approach to data collection

    Center for Global Development, USA, 2013
    How big is China’s aid to Africa? Does it complement or undermine the efforts of traditional donors? China releases little information, and outside estimates of the size and nature of Chinese aid vary widely.
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    Aging, international capital flows and long run convergence

    2016
    In all regions of the world, population is aging, but at different paces, and according to the United Nations (2013) demographic projections, this phenomenon should go on until after the end of the century. This generalized but unequal aging process is occurring in a world of increasing capital mobility and technological transfers, which can o§er new opportunities for trade between regions.

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