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  The dynamic south, economic development and inclusive growth: the challenges ahead

  The Brazilian Center for Analysis and Planning, 2013

  High wage inequality is a major policy concern in Brazil, India, China and South Africa. Recent literature points to the need to examine the role of minimum wages or unionisation and their links to inequality within labour markets and the role of social protection.
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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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  Simulation Analysis of China’s Energy and Industrial Structure Adjustment Potential to Achieve a Low-carbon Economy by 2020

  Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2013

  To achieve a low-carbon economy, China has committed to reducing its carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions per unit of gross domestic product (GDP) by 40%–45% by 2020 from 2005 levels and increasing the share of non-fossil fuels in primary energy consumption to approximately 15%. It is necessary to investigate whether this plan is suitable and how this target may be reached.
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  The Last Straw? The additional burden of climate change on food security in the Himalaya | GRID-Arendal - Publications - The last straw

  GRID Arendal, 2013

  The food price spikes of 2007–08 brought food security into sharp focus on the global agenda. Declines in international commodity markets, financial speculation in low cereal stocks, dramatic weather events, soaring oil prices, and growth in biofuels competing for cropland merged to produce a global crisis.
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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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  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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  China’s green long march: A study of renewable energy, environmental industry and cement sectors

  United Nations [UN] Environment Programme, 2013

  China has witnessed growth in a wide range of renewable energy sectors over the past decade. But challenges remain including a continued reliance on coal and oil relied on for 90 per cent of the country’s energy needs. Air and water pollution are also an issue as well as an underdeveloped waste management sector.
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  Human Trafficking Sentinel Surveillance

  United Nations Inter-Agency Project on Human Trafficking, 2010

  China is a key destination country for victims of human trafficking from Viet Nam.
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  The economic engagement footprint of rising powers in sub-Saharan Africa: an analysis of trade, foreign direct investment and aid flows

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2013

  Rising powers such as Brazil, China, India, South Africa, the Gulf states or Turkey have entered the development arena through their expanding relationships with low-income countries (LICs) . A widespread perception is that these countries are establishing new forms of engagement, mainly under a South–South cooperation framework.
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  Chinese foreign direct investment in Latin America and the Caribbean: China-Latin America cross-council taskforce

  United Nations [UN] Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, 2013

  Although Chinese corporations were relatively unknown in Latin America until a few years ago, their direct investments in the region have averaged about US$10 billion per year since 2010.

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