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    BRICS, mega-regional FTAs and South Africa’s trade strategy

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2014
    Global trade strategy does not seem to be an overriding imperative motivating the Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa (BRICS) grouping. More attention is paid to issues of local currency internationalisation interacting with accessing natural resource
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    The green economy in the G-20, post-Mexico: implications for Russia

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2014
    Sustainable development based on the ‘green economy’ principle presents considerable opportunities for co-operation among the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa) countries, as it entails tackling the problem of human development while restating the importance of innovative, energy-efficient growth.
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    BRICS and the challenges of fighting inequality

    BRICS Policy Center / Centro de Estudos e Pesquisas BRICS, 2014
    The BRICS - Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa  - are protagonists in the spread of hopes throughout the globe to reduce poverty and social inequality, as well as the construction of a new world order.
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    The development implications of the fracking revolution

    Overseas Development Institute, 2014
    A larger number of countries are exposed to a potential trade shock emerging from a change in US oil imports including Angola, Congo, and Nigeria. An increase in fracking in China with the same size in the trade shock would double the effect. The total estimated effects from a reduction in US oil imports from African countries amount to US$32 billion.
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    Connecting Brazil to the world: a path to inclusive growth

    McKinsey Global Institute, 2014
    As Brazil steps into the international spotlight as host of the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Olympics, it is also celebrating a quarter century of democracy and political stability. The nation’s official poverty rate has been cut by half since 2003.
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    From poverty to empowerment: India’s imperative for jobs, growth, and effective basic services

    McKinsey Global Institute, 2014
    More than two decades have passed since India embarked on major economic reforms—and although official poverty rates have declined sharply since then, millions of Indians continue to face significant deprivation in terms of quality of life and access to basic services.
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    Grounded: special report - Brazil

    The Economist, 2013
    A special country-focused edtion of The Economist magazine looks at the following topic areas:
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    Building BRICs by building stadiums: preliminary reflections on recent and future sports mega-events in four emerging economies

    International Research Institute for Sport Studies, UK, 2014
    Research on sports mega-events throughout the world has demonstrated that the benefits of staging them tend to be overestimated and the costs underestimated.
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    It is not just about economic growth in China: finances matter

    Research and Information System for Developing Countries, 2014
    Banks in China have provided a risk cover for the lenders by bailing them out whenever they missed their payments in the bond market. Non-performing loans (NPL), in particular, have been a disturbing feature of China’s financial sector. Recent financial defaults by a rising number of companies in China indicate a brewing danger to the financial system.
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    The Indian economy at a crossroads

    2014
    In the early 1990s, India’s embrace of economic and trade liberalization reforms yielded two decades of robust economic growth that gave rise to the so-called Indian Economic Miracle. But recently, momentum for continued liberalisation has waned.

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