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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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    Green building in Latin America

    2013
    Amidst rapid urbanisation, Latin American countries have been scaling-up green building, in some cases achieving significant reductions in energy consumption, water use, carbon dioxide emissions, and solid waste. This Brief explores how.
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    Economic instruments for water pollution management in Latin America

    Evidence and Lessons from Latin America, 2013
    What are the success factors behind Latin America’s use of economic instruments to improve water quality and generate new revenue for abatement?
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    Rio de Janeiro City’s early warning system for heavy rain

    Evidence and Lessons from Latin America, 2013
    The city of Rio de Janeiro has developed a highly efficient early warning system (EWS) that is having an impressive impact after just three years in operation. The measures employed are innovative, inclusive and non-resource intensive, and are thus highly applicable to cities in other developing regions.
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    Securing the border: Brazil ́s “South America First” approach to transnational organized crime

    Igarape Institute, 2013
    Brazil is at a crossroads in the fight against transnational organized crime. For one, Brazil is claiming a wider involvement in the international peace and security agenda and pursuing priorities overseas.
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    A quiet revolution

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2013
    Carving out new pathways for women into jobs once considered to be 'men’s jobs', the State-run economic empowerment initiative, Chapeu de Palha Mulher, is transforming rural women’s lives in Brazil. For thousands of sugar cane and fruit farm workers, Chapeu de Palha Mulher offers a pathway of empowerment.
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    Empowering domestic work

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2013
    Brazil has 9.1 million domestic workers. Ninety five percent of them are women, 60 percent are black. Many earn less than five dollars a day. Domestic workers began mobilizing 90 years ago, but it was not until the return to democracy in 1985 when trades unions were allowed again, that domestic workers turned their association into a union.
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    Traditional and emerging partners’ role in African regional economic integration: issues and recommendations

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2013
    Regional integration in Africa is still an active agenda item for African nations and pan-African institutions such as the African Union. Regional integration is motivated by the need for larger markets in order to grow trade and investment.
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    Igarape Institute

    The Igarapé Institute is a southern think tank devoted to evidence-based policy and action on complex social challenges.
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    The India-Brazil-South Africa Forum a decade on: mismatched partners or the rise of the South?

    Global Economic Governance Programme, University College Oxford, 2013
    Gridlock in the Doha round of international trade negotiations in the WTO since 2001 has led developing countries to pursue different strategies to boost trade and investment among various partners.

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