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China-Africa agricultural co-operation: mutual benefits or self-interest?
Centre for Chinese Studies, University of Stellenbosch, 2014Agriculture is regarded as a critical tool to help alleviate poverty among African populations. Domestic and international investors have focused on ensuring domestic food security by harvesting untapped agricultural potential.DocumentPrivate investment and international development: the Brazilian experience
BRICS Policy Center / Centro de Estudos e Pesquisas BRICS, 2014This Monitor discusses the increasing tendency that links development cooperation initiatives with private investment.DocumentResearch briefing: institutions for macroeconomic stability in Brazil
International Research Initiative on Brazil and Africa, 2014Possibly the greatest contemporary challenge for Brazil is to return to the cycles of institutional reform that were implemented at the end of the twentieth century, which could then serve as a reference or example for other emerging economies. But, as this briefing argues, amongst policy makers, there is little impetus to review, much less restructure, monetary, tax and fiscal institutions.DocumentInstitutions for macro stability in Brazil: inflation targets and fiscal responsibility
International Research Initiative on Brazil and Africa, 2014Monetary and fiscal institutions have played a decisive role in the stabilisation of the Brazilian economy since the mid-1990s. Brazil’s experience of designing and managing institutions to this end is likely to be of interest to other emerging and low-or middle-income economies.DocumentUSCC Economic Issue Brief - RMB Internationalization.pdf
U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, 2014China is by all measures a global economic power: it is the world’s largest exporter and second-largest importer of goods and services, the largest holder of foreign exchange reserves, and the second-largest economy.DocumentResearch briefing: explaining the decline in earnings inequality in Brazil: 1995 - 2012
International Research Initiative on Brazil and Africa, 2014Long one of the world’s most unequal countries, Brazil has experienced a significant reduction in income inequality since macroeconomic stabilisation around 1994-1995.DocumentResearch briefing: taxation, redistribution and the social contract in Brazil
International Research Initiative on Brazil and Africa, 2014The current Brazilian tax system is beset by complexity and inefficiencies. In distributional terms, the tax system is neutral in the sense that rates of tax are roughly similar across the income distribution. Proposals for more substantial tax reform have never materialised.DocumentTaxation, redistribution and the social contract in Brazil
International Research Initiative on Brazil and Africa, 2014The paper explores theoretically and empirically Brazil’s tax revenue from a political and political economy perspective. The absence of ‘big bang’ reforms to the tax code and tax administration suggests that policy models are less directly relevant to explaining the rise in the tax/GDP ratio.DocumentIs there a new Brazilian model of development? Main findings from the IRIBA research programme
International Research Initiative on Brazil and Africa, 2014It has been suggested that Brazil’s unexpected successes in the last two decades are the outcome of a new model of development, with strong inclusive growth at its core.DocumentImproving access to the city through value capture: an overview of capturing and allocating value created through the development of transport infrastructure in South Africa
Urban LandMark, 2012Cities attribute much of their economic expansion to the development of transit systems that link people efficiently to jobs. However, many of South Africa's cities lack modern mass transit systems for transporting commuters, who have to rely on increasingly congested roads.Pages