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    Rising regional powers and international institutions: the foreign policy orientations of India, Brazil and South Africa

    International Studies Association, 2011
    Whilst rising powers from the South emerge as key players in international politics, they confront a highly institutionalised world order established and maintained by and for the United States and its allies. Traditional perspectives identify three major patterns of behaviour for rising powers in international institutions: balancing, spoiling, and being co-opted.
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    Agricultural policy reform in the BRIC countries

    National Council of Applied Economic Research, India, 2011
    This working paper forms part of a project titled ‘Facilitating Efficient Agricultural Markets in India: An Assessment of Competition and Regulatory Reform’. The paper contains a preliminary review of agricultural policy developments in the economies of Brazil, Russia, India and China (BRIC countries) for the purpose of informing India’s agricultural policy reform agenda.
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    Watershed

    Watershed is a Brazilian website, which provides free access content related to Brazil, China and India in the areas of international relations, economics and culture.
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    Brazil’s economic engagement with Africa

    2011
    Africa offers Brazil an opportunity to expand its bilateral technical cooperation and to revolutionise renewable energy production – in particular biofuels, where it has assumed a global leadership. Given Brazil's technical expertise in a range of areas relevant to Africa’s development needs (e.g.
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    Brazilian technical cooperation for development: drivers, mechanics and future prospects

    Overseas Development Institute, 2010
    This study focuses on Brazilian technical cooperation with developing countries and analyses its policy framework, institutional set-up and implementation modalities, and discusses options for the future.
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    Brazilian cooperation: a model under construction for an emerging power

    Real Instituto Elcano de Estudios Internaciones y Estratégicos, 2010
    This paper examines the political vision of Brazil’s aid as an instrument for its international projection and for the legitimate attainment of its domestic interests. In doing so it looks at the political guidelines underpinning it, the financial resources employed, the sectors and geographical areas in which it is concentrated and the agents that execute it.
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    Charting new directions: Brazil's role in a multi-polar world

    Policy Network, 2011
    Brazil has successfully and peacefully managed the transition to a democratic polity, a stable economy and an increasingly middle class society. These transitions have been based on gradual and hybrid economic, and social and international policies, which defy easy categorisation.
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    Brazil’s conception of South-South 'structural cooperation in health’

    Global Forum for Health Research, 2009
    South-South cooperation (or technical cooperation among developing countries), a foreign policy and international development promotion tool introduced in the late 1970s by the non-aligned countries, has steadily gained importance.
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    Innovating for the health of all: Global Forum update on research for health, volume 6

    Global Forum for Health Research, 2009
    This report focuses on incentives that drive innovation. For new technologies, people are generally familiar with ‘push’ and ‘pull’ incentives. Push incentives include public funding for research and tax breaks for private sector research and development; pull incentives include intellectual property, private markets, public procurement and prizes for innovation.
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    Social protection in Brazil: universalism and targeting in the FHC and Lula administrations

    Scientific Electronic Library Online Brazil, 2009
    This article analyses the organisation of Brazil’s social protection system after the Federal Constitution of 1988 (CF 1988). It demonstrates that the CF 1988 favoured the institutionalisation of universalist public policies, which took place amidst conflict with the stabilisation goals of the Real Plan. The paper argues that the institutionalisation protected public spending in the 1980s.

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