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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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    Brazil: from cursed legacy to compromised hope?

    Transnational Institute, 2014
    Brazil provided perhaps the best hope for social movements that the rise of blocs like IBSA or BRICS might offer new opportunities for progressive economic and social transformation in our globalised world.
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    A ‘Third Umpire’ for policing in South Africa: applying body cameras in the Western Cape

    Igarape Institute, 2015
    Technological innovations are having a profound effect on the form and content of policing. But what are the possibilities for the use of these new technologies for improving law enforcement in the global South? A new initiative led by the Brazil-based Igarapé Institute is testing this question.
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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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    Africa-Brazil relations in the context of global changes

    Institute for Global Dialogue, South Africa, 2014
    Relations between Africa and Brazil date back to the era of slave trade in which many African slaves were settled in Brazil and other parts of Latin America and the Caribbean Island. Due to the historical experience of slave trade, the African dimension remains very robust and apparent in Brazil, through genetic, cultural  and linguistic legacy.
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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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    South Africa, the Indian Ocean and the IBSA-BRICS equation: reflections on geopolitical and strategic dimension

    Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi, 2013
    South Africa's entry into the Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS) forum in 2011 alongside its membership in the trilateral forum of India-Brazil-South Africa (IBSA) raises a number of issues in the nature of trends analysis. These have to do with the relationships among the
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    South Africa, Africa, and the BRICS: progress, problems, and prospects: policy brief

    Centre for Conflict Resolution, University of Cape Town (UCT), 2014
    The Centre for Conflict Resolution (CCR), Cape Town, South Africa, hosted a two-day policy advisory group seminar in Tshwane (Pretoria), South Africa, 2014.
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    Rising powers and the African security landscape

    Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2014
    As the rising powers of China, Brazil, India and South Africa extend their economic engagement in Africa, they are also gradually becoming more involved in the African peace and security agenda. The four articles in this report describe and analyse how these rising powers are engaging with the African security landscape:

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