Ideas for Development Blog - India Brazil South Africa Summit 2010

The United Nations Development Programme International Policy Center for Inclusive Growth (IPC-IG) will be hosting an Academic Forum on the 12th and 13th of April 2010 in correlation to the India-Brazil-South Africa (IBSA) summit to be held in Brasilia, Brazil on the 15th of April 2010.

The theme will be social development strategies for inclusive growth.

Topics at the Academic Forum include role of cash transfers, role of employment programs/policies, health innovation, intellectual property rights and access to essential drugs.

Specifically:

How do conditional cash transfer programs improve life of millions living in extreme poverty?

What are the most relevant experiences from other parts of the world that can be effectively applied to IBSA countries?

How IBSA countries can cooperate and share experiences if they adopt different approaches for CCT programs?

How can study findings on Intellectual property rights and health innovation from Brazil, India, and South Africa affect civil society in each country?

What are the consequences of the creation of new groupings of emerging economies with a strong emphasis on South-South cooperation?

How do we get civil society involved in high level political debates?

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source from:ngopost.org