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  Building mutual understanding for effective development

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2014

  In recent years a number of countries, referred to collectively as the rising powers, have achieved rapid economic growth and increased political influence. In many cases their experience challenges received wisdom on inclusive development. Research funded by traditional development donors has tended to focus on their own aid recipients.
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  BRICS-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, 2014

  The 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.
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  Will the BRICS provide the global public goods the world needs?

  Overseas Development Institute, 2014

  The 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.
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  Climate-smart development: Adding up the benefits of actions that help build prosperity, end poverty and combat climate change

  World Bank, 2014

  This 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.
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  BRICS in the World Trade Organization: comparative trade policies - Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa

  South African Institute of International Affairs, 2014

  In 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.
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  Implementing the responsibility to protect: new directions for international peace and security?

  Igarape Institute, 2013

  The international peace and security architecture is undergoing a profound renovation in the twenty first century. The Responsibility to Protect (R2P) doctrine is being re-evaluated from political and operational perspectives, while the Responsibility while Protecting (RwP), a Brazilian initiative, can be a new direction for international peace and security.
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  South-south technology transfer: criteria for evaluation of public policies in the BRICS countries

  BRICS Policy Center / Centro de Estudos e Pesquisas BRICS, 2013

  This 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.
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  Five fingers or one hand? The BRICS in development cooperation

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2014

  The 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.
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  Building BRICs by building stadiums: preliminary reflections on recent and future sports mega-events in four emerging economies

  International Research Institute for Sport Studies, UK, 2014

  Research on sports mega-events throughout the world has demonstrated that the benefits of staging them tend to be overestimated and the costs underestimated.
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  Innovation, solidarity and South-South learning: the role of civil society from middle-income countries in effective development cooperation

  2014

  Civil society organisations (CSOs) from middle-income countries can play multiple strategically important roles in effective development cooperation. Beyond demanding transparency and accountability around the aid that their own countries still receive, they can add signifi cant value to development cooperation provided to other countries.  

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