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    Shifting power reader: critical perspectives on emerging economies

    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 emerging economies and climate change: a case study of the BASIC grouping

    Transnational Institute, 2014
    Among the most dramatic and far-reaching geopolitical developments of the post-Cold War era is the shift in the locus of global power away from the West with the simultaneous emergence as major powers of former colonies and other countries in the South, which were long on the periphery of international capitalism.
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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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    South Africa and the post–2015 Development Agenda

    Institute for Global Dialogue, South Africa, 2013
    This seminar considered how the South African government, together with other stakeholders such as civil society and private sector, can collectively contribute to the post-2015 development Agenda, as well as ensuring that there is joint positioning with the African continent.
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    Connecting the global to the local: reflections on CSW 59 and the work of collective actors to address structural violence in South Africa

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2015
    This report from Thea Shahrokh and Elizabeth Mills of the Institute for Development Studies reflects on the 59th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW59), and ties it to the work of collective actors addressing structural violence in 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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    Shaping our collective futures: the Africa we want

    2013
    In 50 years, what kind of Africa can we envision, and then proceed to achieve? What are the non-negotiables? What agenda will see a true transformation of the world in which we live? What factors will enable us to not simply survive, but to thrive?

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