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What drives wind and solar energy investment in India and China
Institute of Development Studies UK, 2014While China and India are responsible for the biggest growth in carbon emissions, China is now the largest global investor in renewable energy and India saw the highest growth rate in recent times between 2010 and 2011.DocumentSuccess factors for women's and children's health: Policy and programme highlights from 10 fast-track cuontries
The Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health, 2014There have been substantial achievements towards MDGs 4 and 5 (to reduce child mortality and improve maternal health) from 1990 (the baseline for the MDGs) to 2014.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.DocumentModernizing China in the Olympic spotlight: China’s national identity and the 2008 Beijing Olympiad
Princeton University Library, 2006The XXIX Olympiad is coming to Beijing at a critical juncture of the world history of globalization and the Chinese history of grand socioeconomicDocumentWill 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.DocumentClimate-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.DocumentChina's engagement in Africa: responding to growing tensions and contradictions
BRICS Policy Center / Centro de Estudos e Pesquisas BRICS, 2013China’s involvement in Africa goes back more than fifty years. However, over the past decade or so its presence on the continent has been growing at a remarkable rate. Since 2000, China-Africa trade has increased twenty-fold, and Chinese direct investment in Africa more than thirty-fold.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.DocumentFive fingers or one hand? The BRICS in development cooperation
Institute of Development Studies UK, 2014The BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) are increasingly prominent in development cooperation activities in low-income countries in Africa and worldwide, presenting a potential alternative to the development aid model of traditional donors.Pages