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Climate-smart development: Adding up the benefits of actions that help build prosperity, end poverty and combat climate change
World Bank, 2014This report argues that smart development policies and projects can also slow the pace of adverse climate changes and that the objectives of economic development and climate protection can compliment one another.DocumentBRICS in the World Trade Organization: comparative trade policies - Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa
South African Institute of International Affairs, 2014In the light of the great uncertainties surrounding the current global political and economic situation, the role of emerging countries has been the focus of growing academic interest.DocumentThe pacification of the favelas: mega-events, global competitiveness and the neutralization of marginality
Socialist Studies, 2013Rio de Janeiro is preparing to host two major sporting events in the coming years: the 2014 FIFA World Football Cup and the 2016 Olympic Games. Local authorities are promoting these mega events as an opportunity to increase the global competitiveness of the city.DocumentHome Grown School Feeding and social protection
Home Grown School Feeding, 2010This paper argues that Home Grown School Feeding (HGSF) programmes have great potential to deliver various social protection benefits, not only for schoolchildren and their families but also for food supplying farmers.DocumentAmazon Malaria Initiative (AMI) quarterly bulletin - January 2014
Amazon Malaria Initiative, 2014This issue includes country spotlights on Brazil and Colombia, international partner highlights, events and meetings and global malaria news.DocumentAgeing, well-being and development: A comparative study of Brazil and South Africa
New Dynamics of Ageing, 2011Brazil and South Africa represent different models of social policies for addressing ageing. Their success in promoting the well-being of older people in disadvantaged settings shows that there is no single “best practice” approach.DocumentBrazil: a new powerhouse without military strength?
BRICS Policy Center / Centro de Estudos e Pesquisas BRICS, 2013Brazil’s development assistance to Africa demonstrates that its action abroad is based on soft power tools, especially when dealing with countries of the South, benefiting from its image as successful economic and social development model, remaining faithful to its national principles like non-intervention and respect of sovereignty and exporting efforts that worked at a domestic level.DocumentSolidarity among brothers? Brazil in Africa: trade, investment and cooperation
BRICS Policy Center / Centro de Estudos e Pesquisas BRICS, 2014South-South cooperation (SSC) emerged as a key Brazilian foreign policy instrument in the beginning of Lula’s presidency in 2003 and has generally been sustained by the government of President Dilma Rousseff. From the beginning, Brazil has emphasized SSC in Africa despite not having articulated an explicit foreign policy towards the region.DocumentImplementing the responsibility to protect: new directions for international peace and security?
Igarape Institute, 2013The international peace and security architecture is undergoing a profound renovation in the twenty first century. The Responsibility to Protect (R2P) doctrine is being re-evaluated from political and operational perspectives, while the Responsibility while Protecting (RwP), a Brazilian initiative, can be a new direction for international peace and security.DocumentSouth-south technology transfer: criteria for evaluation of public policies in the BRICS countries
BRICS Policy Center / Centro de Estudos e Pesquisas BRICS, 2013This Policy Brief reviews the existing literature concerned with analytical and conceptual models to evaluate technology transfer (TT) practices in cooperation projects, aiming at contributing to the formulation of effective public policies for the technological development in the BRICS countries.Pages