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Can the SDGs in low-income countries be financed? And should we care?

Winckler Andersen, Ole; Therkildsen, Ole - 2019

SDGs (The Sustainable Development Goals) are underfinanced in developing countries, especially in low-income countries … in 2030. To address the underfunding of the SDGs, policy priorities and allocation decisions in developing as well as … contexts. Realistically not all SDGs will be fully funded. …

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Social protection, caste and ethnicity in Nepal: A new social contract or an old political settlement?

Webster, Neil - 2021

Social protection is emerging in Nepal as a key state instrument to reduce social exclusion and inequality by providing …-generational poverty. In 2016-17, over 2.2 million persons in Nepal benefitted directly from government social protection, for which NRs 32 …

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From network to class? Towards a more complex conception of connection and sociability

Bourgouin, France - 2009

The notion of networks is frequently used by social science scholars in order to explain various forms of social and economic linkages. In this Working Paper, I question why it is that we have replaced older notions of sociality such as culture, community, or group with network, and what the...

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Emerging multinationalists: The South African hospital industry overseas

Mortensen, Jon - 2008

The opening of the economy to trade and investment is affecting health systems worldwide - including those dominated by publicly subsidised and provided healthcare as public sector markets are opening-up to private investors and suppliers. Multinational Companies (MNCs) operating in the hospital...

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South Africa's medical brain drain: Myths, facts and what (not) to do

Mortensen, Jon - 2008

A global shortage of health professionals makes it relatively easy for doctors and nurses from poor countries to emigrate to rich countries. This has raised fears of a medical brain drain from poor to rich countries and has been the subject of much - impassioned - debate. This paper questions...

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Nuclear weapons: Implications for Africa

Cawthra, Gavin; Møller, Bjørn - 2007

The prevention of nuclear proliferation has become a high priority for the international community. The paper analyses the rationale for - and against - this high priority, viewing it as a means to the end of preventing nuclear war rather than as an end in itself. It then proceeds to analyse the...

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Weak links in the BEE chain? Procurement, skills and employment equity in the metals and engineering industries

Mohamed, Grace; Roberts, Simon - 2006

Empowerment’ (BEE) as being broadbased, inclusive, and part of a sustainable long-term growth and development strategy. In this …

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Trade in the small- and micro-entreprise sector in Kenya and other countries in Eastern and Southern Africa

Pedersen, Poul Ove - 2005

development, a sign of poverty, although they are responsible for a large share of the national distribution system. The paper …

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WTO vs. BEE: Why trade liberalisation may block black South Africans' access to the wealth, prosperity or just a white-collar job

Mortensen, Jon - 2006

South Africa’s policy of Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) is intended to alleviate the racially determined disparities in the distribution of the country’s wealth and income. It aims at increasing the participation of black South Africans in the formal private sector economy: more black...

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The logic of Black Economic Empowerment

Southall, Roger - 2006

life for all’ if it is systematically combined with concerted anti-poverty strategies. …

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