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Yurendra Basnett and Ritwika SenThis report reviews the evidence on the employment impact of economic growth and draws out evidence and lessons from the literature on how growth is associated with employment at a macro, sector and industry level.
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Building blocks for equitable growth: lessons from the BRICS
Milo Vandemoortele, Kate Bird, Andries Du Toit, Minquan Liu, Kunal Sen and Fábio Veras SoaresThis ODI Working Paper examines the experiences of four of the BRICS – Brazil, China, India and South Africa – and identifies four key factors shaping the countries’ pattern of growth: people having access to assets; investment in productive activities; social transfers; and a political-economic context where inclusion is a priority. -
The EU’s Common Agricultural Policy and development
Dirk Willem te Velde, Sheila Page, Nicola Cantore, Alan Matthews, Michael King, Ole Boysen and Niels KeijzerThis ODI Project Briefing summarises work from ODI on the current EU Common Agricultural Policy, proposals for its reform, and its impact on developing countries. -
Energy price shocks: sweet and sour consequences for developing countries
Nicola Cantore with Alessandro Antimiani and Paulo Rui AnciaesThis paper discusses the effects of recent energy price changes on developing countries. It reviews the transmission channels between energy prices and growth and distribution in developing countries based on the most recent literature; employs a computable General Equilibrium (CGE) model to identify the most vulnerable countries; and presents three brief country case studies analysing policy responses to oil shocks in more detail (Nigeria, Malawi and Ghana). -
Gatsby I evaluation of Tanzanian cotton sector
This project evaluated the Gatsby Charitable Foundation’s Tanzanian Cotton Sector Development Programme in the Musoma, Serengeti and Bunda districts of Mara region of Tanzania, and conducted a baseline study of the project in 26 districts of the Western Cotton Growing Area (WCGA). -

Farmer weeding maize field in Bihar, India
A farmer at work weeding in a maize field close to the Pusa site of the Borlaug Institute for South Asia (BISA), in the Indian state of Bihar.
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Credit: M. DeFreese/CIMMYT
Source: FlickrThe development implications of the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy
The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) is the European Union’s agricultural policy spending around €50 billion each year. This project explores how proposed CAP reforms might affect developing countries. -
Challenges for the One Village One product (OVOP) movement in Sub-Saharan Africa - Insights from Malawi, Japan and Thailand
Kiyoto Kurokawa, Fletcher Tembo, Dirk Willem te VeldeThe ultimate purpose of this paper is to extract lessons from the Thai and Malawian experiences of OVOP activities and to explore best practice measures for Sub Saharan African countries to tackle challenges and constraints they face in the implementation of OVOP programmes.
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African Growth - Forgotten Issues
Successful African growth strategies will increasingly rely on appropriate services strategies backed by contextspecific development of institutions and statebusiness relations.
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Is Zambia contracting Dutch disease?
The recent large increase in the price of copper has had a substantial impact on copper dependent economies, such as Zambia. This paper applies a traditional framework on the effects of an increase in natural resource revenues to analyse the extent to which the current copper boom is generating Dutch Disease effects in Zambia. -
Trade and Aid: Partners or Rivals in Development Policy
Sheila Page (ed.)Analyses the understanding of how trade and aid work. This book examines a range of examples of how one has been used to support the other and how both developed countries and developing countries have found difficulty in reconciling the different approaches.













