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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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  1. Building blocks for equitable growth: lessons from the BRICS

    Publication - Discussion papers - 14 January 2013
    Milo Vandemoortele, Kate Bird, Andries Du Toit, Minquan Liu, Kunal Sen and Fábio Veras Soares
    This 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.
  2. Energy price shocks: sweet and sour consequences for developing countries

    Publication - Discussion papers - 31 August 2012
    Nicola Cantore with Alessandro Antimiani and Paulo Rui Anciaes
    This 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).
  3. Gatsby I evaluation of Tanzanian cotton sector

    Projects - April 2011 to May 2011
    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).
  4. Farmer weeding maize field in Bihar, India
    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.
    License: Creative Commons
    Credit: M. DeFreese/CIMMYT
    Source: Flickr

    The development implications of the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy

    Projects - January 2011 to March 2013
    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.
  5. Challenges for the One Village One product (OVOP) movement in Sub-Saharan Africa - Insights from Malawi, Japan and Thailand

    Publication - Research reports and studies - 24 May 2010

    The 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.

  6. Trade and Aid: Partners or Rivals in Development Policy

    Publication - Books or book chapters - 31 May 2006

    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.

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