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UK Launch: 2013 African Economic Outlook

Event - Public event - 12 June 2013 10:00 - 11:30 (GMT+01 (BST))

The All Parliamentary Group on Overseas Development (Apgood), The Royal Africa Society (RAS) and the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) will host the UK launch of the African Economic Outlook (AEO) 2013. The African Economic Outlook (AEO) 2013 thematic chapter will analyse the patterns and underlying drivers of structural change in Africa in greater detail and place a special emphasis on the role of natural resources and economic diversification in this process.

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Africa risen?

Event - Public event - 15 May 2013 10:00 - 11:30 (GMT+01 (BST))

The ODI and the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Overseas Development (APGOOD) host a panel discussion on Africa’s economic progress and the ‘Africa Rising’ narrative, bringing together a balanced group of panellists with diverse experiences and backgrounds.

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Special fiscal institutions for resource-rich developing economies

Publication - Research reports and studies - 15 May 2013

Natasha Sharma and Tove Strauss

This paper considers the options available for resource-rich developing countries when deciding whether to implement special fiscal institutions to address some of the challenges of managing natural resource wealth.

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Impact investing and beyond: support for social enterprises in emerging markets

Event - Public event - 9 May 2013 09:00 - 12:00 (GMT+01 (BST))

Workshop with representatives from the investment sector to discuss findings of the research exploring impact investing.

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Climate change mitigation policies opportunities and challenges for exporters from low-income countries

Publication - Discussion papers - 27 March 2013

Jodie Keane

This paper explores the potential new trade opportunities and challenges that climate change mitigation policies adopted primarily in developed countries may create for exporters in Low Income Countries.

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Energy and low-carbon competitiveness: the case of low-income countries

Publication - Discussion papers - 27 March 2013

Andrew Scott

The paper provides a brief review of trends in key energy markets and the impact these will have on low income countries.

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Shifting the development debate to jobs, productivity change and structural transformation

Opinion - Articles and blogs - 18 March 2013

Only productivity change, structural transformation and innovation can secure development in the long-run. A low-income country (LIC) that doesn’t increase the level of productivity in its economy will eventually limit its own growth and income-generating potential, and find it difficult to navigate health challenges and environmental constraints. It may well fail to make the transition from a LIC to a middle income country (MIC).

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Localising aid: sustaining change in the public, private and civil society sectors

Publication - Research reports and studies - 15 March 2013

Jonathan Glennie, Alastair McKechnie, Gideon Rabinowitz and Ahmed Ali

This major new report looks at whether transferring aid to or through national systems and organisations strengthens them over the long term.

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Human Development Report: a glass half full

Opinion - Articles and blogs - 14 March 2013

'Today’s report is another reminder that the world isn’t changing – it has already changed, and in many places for the better... more than 40 developing countries have outpaced expected gains in human development in recent decades.'

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From supply and demand to power and data: the case for a more restrained handling of job creation programs in conflict-affected situations

Opinion - Articles and blogs - 11 March 2013

'The case of job creation is symptomatic of a broader issue: that, perhaps because of the absence of high quality impact data, largely unjustified assumptions shape policy and programming choices in conflict-affected situations.'

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