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    The emerging economies and climate change: a case study of the BASIC grouping

    Transnational Institute, 2014
    Among the most dramatic and far-reaching geopolitical developments of the post-Cold War era is the shift in the locus of global power away from the West with the simultaneous emergence as major powers of former colonies and other countries in the South, which were long on the periphery of international capitalism.
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    BRICS: a global trade power in a multi-polar world

    Transnational Institute, 2014
    Central to the narrative of emerging powers, and particularly the BRICS, is the issue of trade, as both the driver of their economic surge, the factor behind their growing economies and the platform it has given them to assert influence in global governance.
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    South Africa and the BRICS alliance: challenges and opportunities for South Africa and Africa

    Transnational Institute, 2014
    South Africa under the ANC and its alliance with the BRICS promised a more moral, democratic vision of global governance, but in practice its foreign policy has been too often swayed by narrow commercial interests and short-term growth. For the past decade, Africa has experienced the longest continuous growth spurt since independence from colonialism.
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    China and India, “rising powers” and African development : challenges and opportunities

    Nordic Africa Institute / Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, Uppsala, 2014
    In this report, the challenges and opportunities arising from the growing ties between two key “Rising Powers,” China and India, and Africa are more fully explored. This trend has given rise to speculative, exaggerated and ideological responses and a mixture of anxiety and hope.
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    The Brics and global capitalism

    Transnational Institute, 2014
    Does the emergence of a multipolar global order open up policy space for alternative economic visions and pose a necessary challenge to a US and Northern-dominated global order? Or might it instead reinvigorate capitalism and exploitation by a new constellation of corporate elites?
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    Land grabbing under the Cover of Law: Are BRICS-South relationships any different?

    Transnational Institute, 2014
    There is a general consensus among academics, politicians and social movements, that BRICS as ‘new donors’ are increasing both their quantitative and qualitative role in defining what is considered to be ‘the world economic order’.
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    China in Africa: impacts and prospects for accountable development

    Effective States and Inclusive Development Research Centre, 2012
    China is the major “new” player in Africa and impacts on development and politics in numerous ways. This paper shows that China impacts on African development in multiple ways that go well beyond aid.
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    The United Nations Post-2015 Agenda for Global Development: perspectives from China and Europe

    Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik / German Development Institute (GDI), 2014
    This publication focuses on scholarly discourses and policy challenges in China and Germany. Articles from The German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE), also cover European perspectives while chapters from the Shanghai Institutes for International Studies (SIIS) extend to the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa).
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    The Contingent Reserve Arrangement: a redesign of the International Monetary System

    Research and Information System for Developing Countries, 2015
    The BRICS countries established the New Development Bank (NDB) and the Contingent Reserve (CRA) Arrangement at their sixth Summit at Fortaleza, Brazil on 15 July 2014. This policy brief examines the implications of the CRA both for the international monetary system (IMS) and how far it meets the needs of the individual BRICS countries. It looks at:
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    Reconfiguring international financial institutions: the BRICS Initiative

    Research and Information System for Developing Countries, 2015
    This paper examines the implications of the establishment of the New Development Bank (NDB) and the Contingent Reserve Arrangement (CRA) for the international financial system and for the BRICS countries.

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