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    Inequality Matters: BRICS inequalities fact sheet

    Oxfam, 2013
    In international debates about inequality, dialogue on the emergence of the BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa), has focused largely on how this group has contributed to a shift in the global balance of power, raising hopes of a more egalitarian global governance architecture through international trade and development co-operation.
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    The BRICS Summit 2013: key asks and priorities

    Oxfam India, 2013
    During the last decade, with the rise of emerging economies and their growing interest in Africa, the role of the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) countries has been widely debated and scrutinised. It is against this backdrop that there has been a real need for the BRICS countries to demonstrate a difference in its approach from the West.
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    India and South Africa as partners for development in Africa?

    Chatham House [Royal Institute of International Affairs], UK, 2011
    Identifying the overlap of interests in Africa between India and South Africa is a key element in assessing whether they can be partners for development in Africa. This paper begins with a brief discussion of Africa’s place in their respective foreign policies and the relations between the two countries. It then explores the concept of trilateral cooperation.
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    India and Africa: development partnership

    2012
    The history of India-Africa development cooperation reflects the philosophy underlying India’s engagement with other developing countries in the post-colonial period.
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    The green economy and the BRICS countries: bringing them together

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2013
    The green economy has been around as a concept since the 1970s but gained relevance again in the wake of the global economic recession in 2009 as government leaders looked towards new economic opportunities through sustainable, equitable and resilient economic growth. International institutions such as the UN helped to shape the thinking
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    City-level climate change mitigation and adaptation

    Evidence and Lessons from Latin America, 2013
    Latin American cities are under increasing pressure from rapid urbanisation, while current impacts and potential threats from climate change are further exposing municipal vulnerabilities. City planners are responding to these twin pressures with innovations in climate-related policies and are making big strides in terms of climate change mitigation and adaptation.
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    Vietnam-India relations in the light of India’s Look East Policy

    Indian Council of World Affairs, 2012
    India launched its economic reforms and Look East Policy (LEP) simultaneously in 1991, with the LEP aiming to take India out of the geopolitically constraining South Asian context and enable it to position itself as a key player and emerging major regional power.
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    New frontiers in South-South engagement: relationship between India and Latin America and the Caribbean

    Indian Council of World Affairs, 2013
    Initially led almost exclusively by the private sector, ties between India and Latin America have more recently begun to take on a deeper state-to-state and people-to-people form. India and Latin America have also initiated engagements at a multilateral level, both as a part of new organisations of the global
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    The dynamic south, economic development and inclusive growth: the challenges ahead

    The Brazilian Center for Analysis and Planning, 2013
    High wage inequality is a major policy concern in Brazil, India, China and South Africa. Recent literature points to the need to examine the role of minimum wages or unionisation and their links to inequality within labour markets and the role of social protection.
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    The BRICS fallacy

    Center for Strategic and International Studies, 2013
    Focus on the BRICS began in 2001. Back then, the group only included Brazil, Russia, India, and China (South Africa was added in 2010). It all started with a November 2001 Goldman Sachs research paper titled ‘‘Building Better Global Economic BRICs,’’ written by Jim O’Neill.

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