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    South Africa and the BRICS alliance: challenges and opportunities for South Africa and Africa

    Transnational Institute, 2014
    South Africa under the ANC and its alliance with the BRICS promised a more moral, democratic vision of global governance, but in practice its foreign policy has been too often swayed by narrow commercial interests and short-term growth. For the past decade, Africa has experienced the longest continuous growth spurt since independence from colonialism.
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    The Brics and global capitalism

    Transnational Institute, 2014
    Does the emergence of a multipolar global order open up policy space for alternative economic visions and pose a necessary challenge to a US and Northern-dominated global order? Or might it instead reinvigorate capitalism and exploitation by a new constellation of corporate elites?
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    The United Nations Post-2015 Agenda for Global Development: perspectives from China and Europe

    Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik / German Development Institute (GDI), 2014
    This publication focuses on scholarly discourses and policy challenges in China and Germany. Articles from The German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE), also cover European perspectives while chapters from the Shanghai Institutes for International Studies (SIIS) extend to the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa).
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    National Development Banks in the BRICS: Lessons for the Post-2015 Development Finance Framework

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2015
    In 2015, the framework to succeed the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) will be agreed. As described in the outcome document of the United Nations (UN) Rio+20 conference, The Future We Want, the mobilisation and effective use of stable, sufficient and suitable development finance must be a crucial part of this framework.
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    Understanding the Rising Powers' contribution to the Sustainable Development Goals

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2015
    Rising powers such as Brazil, India and China have been criticised for being obstructive in the negotiations on the post-2015 development agenda. The start of the United Nations (UN) negotiations saw high expectations for the role of these countries in shaping the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This leadership has not materialised.
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    BRICS: emergence of health agenda

    International Organisations Research Institute, 2014
    Health is an indispensable public good. At the national level, it has been manifested in the commitment of the BRICS members of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa to scale up health financing. At the global level, it is evidenced by the international community progress on the three health-related Millennium Development Goals.
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    The G-20 and development: ensuring greater African participation

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2014
    Although South Africa is the only African permanent member of the G-20 group of major economies, the G-20 regularly invites the chair of the African Union (AU) and a representative of the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) – usually the chair of the Heads of State and Government Orientation Committee – to attend its meetings.
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    Will the BRICS provide the global public goods the world needs?

    Overseas Development Institute, 2014
    The demand for global economic governance is increasing in a globalising and increasingly interlinked economy. Yet global governance, a global public good, is currently undersupplied – and this (e.g. lack of global rules on trade, finance and emissions) is harming development.
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    Implementing the responsibility to protect: new directions for international peace and security?

    Igarape Institute, 2013
    The international peace and security architecture is undergoing a profound renovation in the twenty first century. The Responsibility to Protect (R2P) doctrine is being re-evaluated from political and operational perspectives, while the Responsibility while Protecting (RwP), a Brazilian initiative, can be a new direction for international peace and security.
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    The evolution of organised crime in Africa: towards a new response

    Institute for Security Studies, 2013
    This paper attempts to better understand the drivers behind the growth of organised crime in Africa by examining its evolution over time. The paper notes that in a comparatively short period, Africa has developed a significant and worsening organised crime problem.

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