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An overview of Lagoro IDP camp in Kitgum District, northern Uganda, 20 May 2007. Manoocher Deghati/IRIN
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  2. Dirk Willem te Velde

    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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  3. Public works scheme labourer
    Public works scheme labourer

    Labourer working in the Monga public works scheme
    License: ODI given rights
    Credit: Rachel Slater and Rebecca Holmes
    Source: ODI

    Rethinking public works and social protection for the 21st century

    Event - Public event - 6 March 2013 12:30 - 14:00 (GMT+00)

    The evolving role of Public Works is the theme of a joint ODI/World Bank lunchtime event to launch two books analysing the global application of these popular instruments and their role in addressing the challenges represented by the changing labour market structures of low and middle income countries in the 21st century.

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  4. Labour mobility in east Africa: an analysis of the East African Community's Common Market and the free movement of workers

    Publication - Journal articles or issues - 7 February 2013
    Development Policy Review Volume 31, Issue Number 2
    Yurendra Basnett
    This article advocates an institutional perspective in analysing labour mobility, since rules governing cross-border labour markets are an embodiment of access and participation rights, and can determine the formalisation or informalisation of work and the protection and benefits accrued by migrant workers. It examines the East African Community's Common Market Protocol of July 2010, which seeks to promote the ‘free movement of workers’ within the Community. It argues that there are contradictions and inconsistencies in implementing the Protocol and provides recommendations for addressing them.
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  6. Rethinking Rio +20: why economists should take the Earth Summit seriously

    Opinion - Articles and blogs - 18 June 2012

    Back at the first RioEarth Summitin 1992, the civil society organisations in attendance counted an unusual group among their number. Amid the assorted staffers and activists from environmental and development NGOs, there was a handful of campaigners who had a very different relationship with the Earth: representatives of an astronauts' organisation. Their reason for being there? Having seen the planet from space, they'd learned to view it from a different angle.

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  7. The impact of EU sugar policy reform on developing countries

    Publication - Research reports and studies - 15 February 2012
    LMC International and Overseas Development Institute (Anna Locke, Nicola Cantore and Jodie Keane)
    The objective of this report was to assess the implications of further reform of the EU sugar regime on Afro-Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) and Least Developed Countries (LDC). To do this, the outlook for the EU sugar market was modelled under a range of scenarios and the viability of the sugar industries in LDC/ACP countries that currently rely, to a greater or lesser extent, on sales to the EU market was assessed. The report then draws on this analysis to highlight potential impacts on poverty and livelihoods in affected countries and discusses possible transitional assistance measures to mitigate negative impacts.
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  9. Market stall, Ivory Coast
    Market stall, Ivory Coast

    Preparing a market stall - Abidjan, Ivory Coast
    License: Creative Commons
    Credit: babasteve
    Source: Flickr

    Can markets ever defeat poverty? How sustainable business can engage the rural poor

    Event - Public event - 28 September 2011 12:30 - 14:00 (GMT+01 (BST))

    This event has been arranged to coincide with the launch of our major new book ‘Markets and Rural Poverty’. The book summarises primary and secondary evidence gathered from our research on the place of poor people within a rich variety of value chains, focusing upon lagging, rural regions in Africa and Asia, and how they can ‘upgrade’ within such chains. Upgrading is a key concept for value chain analysis and refers to the acquisition of technological capabilities and market linkages that enable firms to improve their competitiveness and move into higher-value activities. 
     
    The debate will focus upon three broad issues addressed in the book:

    • What works and what does not in value (supply) chain development?
    • What is the business case for upgrading in value chains based in the South?
    • How do we measure the success of upgrading initiatives in terms of return on public and private investments?
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