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    The political dynamics of economic growth

    Effective States and Inclusive Development Research Centre, 2012
    This survey article is an assessment of what is known about the political determinants of economic growth, i.e. the role of political factors in explaining why some countries’ economies grow faster than others.
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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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    The politics of what works in service delivery: an evidence-based review

    Effective States and Inclusive Development Research Centre, 2012
    This paper examines the evidence on the forms of politics likely to promote inclusive social provisioning and enable, as opposed to constrain, improvements in service outcomes. The paper focuses particularly on eight relatively successful cases of delivery in a range of country contexts and sectors where independent evaluations demonstrate improved outcomes.
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    Delivering effective social assistance: does politics matter?

    Effective States and Inclusive Development Research Centre, 2012
    Social assistance programmes are tax-financed programmes directed by public agencies with the objective of reducing, preventing, and eventually eradicating poverty. This paper examines the significance of politics in the rise of social assistance programmes in developing countries in the last decade.
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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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    The Durban BRICS Summit: partnership for development and integration proceedings report

    Institute for Global Dialogue, South Africa, 2013
    The media hype and international attention that centered on Durban during the fifth BRICS Summit (26–27 March 2013) has faded.
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    What future for BASIC? The emerging powers dimension in the international politics of climate change negotiations

    Institute for Global Dialogue, South Africa, 2012
    In Copenhagen 2009, the UNFCCC climate negotiations saw the rise of the emerging powers of Brazil, South Africa, India and China (BASIC) as they assumed a leading role in realizing the final outcome in the shape of the Copenhagen Accord.

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