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Brazil in the WTO Dispute Settlement Understanding: a perspective
CUTS Centre for International Trade, Economics & Environment, 2013Brazil is the most active developing country user overall of the WTO’s DSU (Dispute Settlement Understanding). This paper highlights that Brazil has brought complaints in 25 cases, been a respondent in 14 cases and participated as a third party in 64 cases.DocumentIntra - BRICS trade & its implications for India
2014The significance of international trade was highlighted by the leaders of the BRICS group of countries as they met for their Sixth Summit in Fortaleza, Brazil in July, 2014. The BRICS group, made up of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, came together calling for an Action Plan for advancing its work on trade and investment.DocumentThe BRICS and the international development system: challenge and cnvergence
2014The sustained growth of rising powers, including the grouping known as the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) is reshaping global governance arrangements. Annual BRICS summits and inter-ministerial meetings seek to reform existing international financial and economic institutions and promote a multipolar system of global order.DocumentBrazil’s international development cooperation at a crossroads
Institute of Development Studies UK, 2014Brazil’s historic experience as an aid recipient, combined with the country’s relative lack of dependency on Northern funds to support its own development trajectory, has contributed to creating and sustaining a critical approach towards traditional aid.DocumentBuilding mutual understanding for effective development
Institute of Development Studies UK, 2014In recent years a number of countries, referred to collectively as the rising powers, have achieved rapid economic growth and increased political influence. In many cases their experience challenges received wisdom on inclusive development. Research funded by traditional development donors has tended to focus on their own aid recipients.DocumentBRICS-cities and the issue of social mobility: attraction of capital and the right to the city
BRICS Policy Center / Centro de Estudos e Pesquisas BRICS, 2014The consolidation of a group of countries, like the BRICS nations, as strong global players demonstrates to the whole world that mobility is a real possibility in the international arena. What the BRICS grouping does not make clear, however, is whether this mobility will result in profound systemic changes towards a more equal and democratic world.DocumentFraming the World Cup: Competing Discourses of Favela Pacification as a Mega-Event Legacy in Brazil
Recreation and Society in Africa, Asia and Latin America, 2012In November of 2010, Brazilian military and police officers rolled through the streets of Complexo de Alemão, Rio de Janeiro’s largest favela, in an effort to ‘take back’ the community from notorious drug traffickers in time for the 2014 FIFA World Cup and the 2016 Summer Olympic Games.OrganisationRecreation and Society in Africa, Asia and Latin America (RASAALA)
Recreation and Society in Africa, Asia and Latin America (RASAALA) encourages original research into the relationship between recreation (sports, games, tourism, pageants and carnivals, etc.) and commDocumentWill the BRICS provide the global public goods the world needs?
Overseas Development Institute, 2014The 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.OrganisationInternational Research Initiative on Brazil and Africa (IRIBA)
Brazil has emerged as a globally significant economic power in the last decade, combining accelerated growth with falling poverty and inequality.Pages