Brazil and Globalisation
- Capital:
BrasÃlia - Population:
201103330 - Size:
8511965.0 Km2
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- Land ceilings: reining in land grabbers or dumbing down the debate?
- GRAIN, 2013
- Governments in a number of countries are trying to address concerns about land grabbing by closing their borders to foreign investors. Are these restrictions effective? Not really, says GRAIN. They give the impression that some...
- 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...
- Rising regional powers and international institutions: the foreign policy orientations of India, Brazil and South Africa
- M. D. Stephen / International Studies Association, 2011
- Whilst rising powers from the South emerge as key players in international politics, they confront a highly institutionalised world order established and maintained by and for the United States and its allies. Traditional perspectives...
- Charting new directions: Brazil's role in a multi-polar world
- Policy Network, 2011
- Brazil has successfully and peacefully managed the transition to a democratic polity, a stable economy and an increasingly middle class society. These transitions have been based on gradual and hybrid economic, and social and internat...
- Brazil as a development actor: South-South cooperation and the IBSA initiative
- S-L. John de Sousa / Fride, 2008
- This report looks at Brazil as a development partner, its external perception as an important and crucial country for regional stability, and projection of its global identity as a ‘voice’ for the developing world in crucial...
- Rising powers, reforming challenges: negotiating agriculture in the WTO Doha Round from a Brazilian perspective
- B. Baracuhy / Centre for Rising Powers, University of Cambridge, 2011
- This article examines the history of the WTO Doha Round agriculture negotiations from 2001 to 2011 in light of the shifting global balance of economic power. It shows that the rise of China, Brazil and India, among other developing co...
- Financial structure matters for economic growth
- Kul Luintel; Mosahid Khan; Philip Arestis / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2009
- There is an unresolved debate over whether banks or markets are better at providing financial services and stimulating economic growth. Recent studies showing that neither bank-based nor market-based systems are particularly linked wi...
- Equal pay for equal work? Manufacturing wage gaps between Brazil and USA
- Jus Semper Global Alliance, 2009
- How does globalisation impact poor people? One way is through its effect on workers’ wages in developing countries, particularly in the context of multinational coorporation (MNC) operations. Looking at recent trends in manufact...
- The potential for south-south co-operation
- INSouth, 2008
- This paper details excerpts from the inaugural address by Indian external affairs Minister, Shri Pranab Mukherjee at the academic forum of India, Brazil, and South Africa (IBSA) Partnership for Shared Prosperity and Inclusive Globalis...
- An overview of social movements and Pentecostalism
- R. Zibechi / Center for International Policy, 2008
- Focusing on outh America, this paper provides an overview of social movements and Pentecostalism. It particularly draws on the work of U.S urban specialist, Mike Davis, and historian/ social psychologist Marco Fernandes. P...
- Theatre of the Oppressed
- Theatre for the socially disadvantaged
