South Africa and Rising powers in international development
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- What next for the BRICS Bank?
- N. Watson; M. Younis; S. Spratt / Institute of Development Studies UK, 2013
- A new development bank to be created by the ‘Rising Powers’ of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS) is intended to promote greater cooperation between developing countries, and address what is seen by many...
- Mobilizing climate investment: the role of international climate finance in creating scaled-up low-carbon energy
- C. Polycarp; L. Brown; X. Fu-Bertaux 2013
- It is estimated that developing countries need US$ 531 billion per year additional investment in energy supply and demand technologies, between now and 2050, in order to limit global temperature rise to two degrees above pre-industria...
- Rising Powers in International Development: an annotated bibliography
- M. Younis; J. Constantine; E. Wach; L. Navas-Alemán; A. Shankland; A. Yadav / Institute of Development Studies UK, 2013
- The Rising Powers – a category that includes the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) as well as other key countries such as Mexico, Turkey and Indonesia – are establishing themselves as an influential pre...
- Extending social security coverage in the BRICS
- International Social Security Association, 2013
- The five countries of the BRICS, Brazil, the Russian Federation, India, China and South Africa, are facing some common challenges with regard to ageing of their populations, urbanisation, vulnerability to environmental shocks, increas...
- Civil society engagement with the BRICS agenda
- L. John / Oxfam India, 2012
- The emergence of BRICS represents an important change in the global political economy. There is anticipation that the BRICS – building on their own lessons and initiatives – will play a progressive role on economic and soc...
- Reducing inequality and poverty while mitigating climate change: key challenges for research and practice in middle-income countries in Africa and Latin America
- C. Grottera; A. Moyo; B. Rennkamp; W. Wills / Energy Research Centre, University of Cape Town (UCT), 2012
- This working paper, produced by the Mitigation Action Plans and Scenarios (MAPS) programme, investigates the relationship between emissions, inequality and poverty in middle-income countries in Africa and Latin America. Research on th...
- Building blocks for equitable growth: lessons from the BRICS
- M. Vandemoortele; K. Bird; A. Du Toit; M. Liu; K. Sen; F. Veras Soares / Overseas Development Institute, 2013
- The BRICS countries have been lauded for their economic growth and resilience through the 2008/09 financial crisis; they are becoming models of development for development practitioners, researchers and other emerging economies. But m...
- Brief on market-based policies for climate change mitigation in emerging economies
- S. Moarif; N. P. Rastogi / Center for Climate and Energy Solutions, 2012
- This brief explores the different types of market-based climate mitigation policies being implemented across five different emerging economies: China, India, Brazil, South Africa and South Korea. Market-based policies work through rai...
- Another BRIC in the wall? South Africa's developmental impact and contradictory rise in Africa and beyond
- P. Carmody 2012
- Globalisation is transforming the nature of authority in international relations, as hegemony is replaced by geo-governance, involving a more varied set of actors. However, private authority over markets and resources is still often c...
- Estimating the impact of minimum wages on employment, wages and non-wage benefits: the case of agriculture in South Africa
- H. Bhorat / Development Policy Research Unit, University of Cape Town (UCT), South Africa, 2012
- Assessments of the impact of minimum wages on labour market outcomes in Africa are relatively rare. In part this is because the data available do not permit adequate treatment of econometric issues that arise in such an assessment. Th...
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