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European Report on Development 2013 - Post-2015: global action for an inclusive and sustainable future

Publication - Research reports and studies - 9 April 2013

James Mackie (European Centre for Development Policy Management), Pedro Martins (Overseas Development Institute) and Stephan Klingebiel (Deutsche Institut für Entwicklungspolitik)

The European Report on Development 2013 aims to provide an independent contribution to the post-2015 debate by focusing on how best global collective action can support the efforts of developing countries to achieve development.

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New build in Ehtiopia
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The age of choice: developing countries in the new aid landscape

Event - Public event - 27 March 2013 12:30 - 14:00 (GMT+00)

Amid the cut and thrust of high-level discussions on global goals and the architecture of development finance at the international level, a fundamental shift is taking place in developing countries. This event will present the findings of new research into how the changing aid landscape looks from the perspective of developing countries.

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Nairobi love protest. Kenya elections
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Elections in Kenya and Ghana: what prospects for political and economic governance?

Event - Public event - 19 March 2013 10:00 - 12:00 (GMT+00)

This event is the first meeting in an ODI series on ‘Elections, legitimacy and transitions: lessons from emerging democracies’. This timely event will look at two countries electoral trajectories: Kenya and Ghana.

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Alison Evans delivers a keynote speech to delegates at the Fourth High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness in Busan, 2011.
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Low carbon logic: how southern businesses are saving money by going green

Event - Public event - 18 March 2013 12:30 - 14:00 (GMT+00)

Climate change, international mitigation, and natural resource scarcity will transform global trade patterns. What impact will this have on developing countries? How can they maintain their competitiveness, manage threats to their growth, and capitalise on new opportunities generated? At this meeting ODI's Private Sector and Markets team will present emerging ODI research findings to these questions.

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Dakar 2006, African women
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Gender and social protection in the developing world: beyond mothers and safety nets

Event - Public event - 13 March 2013 12:30 - 14:00 (GMT+00)

Celebrating International Women’s Day 2013, this book launch encapsulates the theme of voice, empowerment and agency, to discuss what these concepts mean in practice and how they can be achieved through different pro-poor policy and programming measures and in different contexts.

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Man standing in river. Asia
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Rebalancing Asia: Implications for inclusive green growth

Event - Public event - 13 March 2013 09:00 - 10:30 (GMT+00)

ODI is pleased to host a joint event with the Tokyo-based Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI) on inclusive green growth and regional cooperation in Asia.

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Helen Clark, UNDP Administrator
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A conversation with Helen Clark

Event - Public event - 12 February 2013 12:30 - 14:00 (GMT+00)

ODI is pleased to host Helen Clark, Administrator of UNDP and Chair of the UN Development Group, in a conversation about the post-2015 development agenda. This will be an interactive event chaired by ODI Director Alison Evans.

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Justin Lin
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How do developing economies grow?

Event - Public event - 17 December 2012 12:30 - 14:00 (GMT+00)

Justin Yifu Lin, the first non-Western chief economist of the World Bank and architect of China’s economic reform, is someone we should listen to when he offers his ideas on economic growth. In his book THE QUEST FOR PROSPERITY: How Developing Economies Can Take Off, Lin focuses on what developing nations can do to help themselves, without the need of international assistance or influence, drawing on a lifetime’s worth of research in international economics, from China to the World Bank.

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Jeffrey D. Sachs - World Economic Forum on East Asia 2011
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Jeffrey Sachs on the post-2015 development framework - reflections and challenges

Event - Public event - 10 December 2012 10:15 - 11:15 (GMT+00)

ODI are delighted to host Professor Jeffrey Sachs to hear his thoughts on the post-2015 development framework and the challenges that lie ahead.

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Market stall, Ivory Coast
Preparing a market stall - Abidjan, Ivory Coast
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What should an income poverty target look like post-2015?

Event - Round-table - 22 November 2012 11:00 - 12:30 (GMT+00)

It is clear that the world has changed a great deal since 2000 when the MDG framework was finalised. Extreme poverty has declined while more poor people today reside in middle income rather than low income countries. What this means for the post-2015 development framework is currently under intense discussion. In this one off event Martin Ravallion, Director of the Development Research Group at the World Bank asks “What should an income poverty target look like post-2015”?

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