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The BRICS in Africa

Author : Funeka Y. April
Publisher : HSRC Press
ISBN 13 : 9780796926371
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (263 download)

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Download or read book The BRICS in Africa written by Funeka Y. April and published by HSRC Press. This book was released on 2023-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The BRICS countries--Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa--have become a strong engine of South-South cooperation, contributing to a significant shift in the global balance of power. They also, taken as a whole, constitute Africa's largest trading partner. The authors of this new collection consider the potential of BRICS-Africa cooperation for promoting sustainable African development. CONTENTS: Introduction--Y. April and M. Kanyane. GOVERNANCE IN THE POST-COVID-19 ERA. BRICS Governance and Ethics Architecture: Challenges and Prospects--M. Kanyane. China-Africa Cooperation in the Post-Pandemic Era: Challenges and Way Forward--H. Weping. THE RELEVANCE OF THE BRICS MULTI-DEVELOPMENT BANK FUNDING AND INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT. The BRICS Development Bank: A Development Finance Model Conducive to the Strengthening of South-South Cooperation--R. Ridolfi. The BRICS, the New Development Bank, and African Development--I. Khambule. Strengthening the BRICS Financial Cooperation Mechanism: Promoting Pragmatic Development--L. Yijun. Analyzing the BRICS Development Bank Response to Covid-19--B. Kanyane and N. Ngqwala. The BRICS and Technology in Africa. The Future of Work in South Africa--K. Chetty. Financing Renewable Energy Technologies in BRICS--K. Pillay et al. Promoting Financial Technology Partnerships in the BRICS--K. Chetty et al. ADDRESSING ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT DISPARITIES AND INEQUALITIES IN BRICS AND AFRICA. BRICS and Transformation of Africa's Infrastructure in the Covid-19 Era: Rhetoric and Reality--R.T. Lisinge. Lessons in Sustainable Development for South Africa from the Affordable Housing Policy of the BRICS Countries--J. Jose et al. Women Entrepreneurs in the BRICS Informal Economy: A Transformative Agenda Amidst the Covid-19 Pandemic--O.E. Okeke-Uzodike. BRICS: Finding and Funding the Nexus Between Peace, Security, and Development--B. Siwisa. African Low-Income Countries' Leapfrogging Development and the Role of the BRICS Countries: A Case Study of Ethiopia and Rwanda--A. Ping and Z. Weiyun. BRICS AND THE HEALTH INDUSTRY IN AFRICA. An Innovation-Sharing Platform for Vaccine Research in BRICS--K. Chetty and C. Hongoro. Assessing Covid-19 and Telemedicine Collaboration on Energy and Internet Communications Technology: Implications for Health in Africa--Y. April and L. Mengdi. China-Africa Health Cooperation and Its Implications for the Covid-19 Pandemic--Z. Liu. Resilience of Health Systems to Disease Outbreaks: Covid-19-- A Comparative Analysis of South Africa and the Other BRICS Countries Using the Global Health Security Index--C. Hongoro et al. Conclusion: The Way Forward for BRICS and Development in Africa--K. Chetty and Y.D. Davids.

BRICS and Resistance in Africa

Author : Justin van der Merwe
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1786996332
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (869 download)

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Download or read book BRICS and Resistance in Africa written by Justin van der Merwe and published by Zed Books Ltd.. This book was released on 2019-10-15 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though initially considered a welcome counterweight to Western interest across Africa, the BRICS are increasingly being viewed as another example of foreign interference and exploitation. BRICS and Resistance in Africa explores the varied forms of African resistance being developed in response to the growing influence of the BRICS. Its case studies cover such instances as the opposition to China’s One Belt One Road initiative in East Africa; resistance to the BRICS’ oil activities in the Niger Delta; and the role of the BRICS in Zimbabwe’s political transition. The contributors expose the contradictions between the group’s rhetoric and its real impact, as well as the complicity of local elites in serving as proxies for the BRICS nations. By challenging and expanding the debates surrounding BRICS involvement in Africa, this collection offers new insight into resistance to globalization in the global South.

Africa Rising?

Author : Ian Taylor
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1847010962
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Africa Rising? written by Ian Taylor and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 2014 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Africa is said to be rising, turning a definitive page in its history, heralding new and exciting possibilities for the continent. This discourse maintains that with upsurge in economic growth comes improved governance and endogenous dynamics; that the emerging economies, and especially the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa), have been instrumental in diversifying Africa's international relations, perhaps leading to a radical change in the global order, favourable to the developing world. But to what extent is this true, and how deep and how broad has been the impact on society at large? This book takes a critical look at the prevalent Africa Rising discourse, and explores the nature and implications of Africa's "rise" and the role that the BRICS have played in it. The author argues that Africa has still to undergo any structural transformation; that there is strong evidence that deindustrialisation and jobless growth have accompanied the upsurge of interest in the continent; and that far from making a radical turn in its developmental trajectory, Africa is being pushed into the resource corner as commodity exporters, to the North (and now, the BRICS) with little scope for industrial progress or skills advancement. Hope that the BRICS might offer an alternative to the extant neoliberal order are misplaced, for the BRICS have a stake in maintaining the current global unequality. Africa must therefore fashion its own independent path - while the emerging economies will be important, relying on external actors may simply reproduce anew the current state of underdevelopment. Ian Taylor is Professor in International Relations and African Politics, University of St Andrews; Chair Professor, Renmin, University of China; Professor Extraordinary, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa; Honorary Professor, Institute of African Studies, Zhejiang Normal University, China; and a Visiting Scholar at Mbarara University of Science and Technology, Uganda.

The Rise of the BRICS in Africa

Author : Doctor Padraig Carmody
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1780326076
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book The Rise of the BRICS in Africa written by Doctor Padraig Carmody and published by Zed Books Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-09-12 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A little over a decade ago Africa was being spoken of in the media as the 'lost' or 'hopeless' continent. Now it has some of the fastest growing economies in the world, largely because of the impact of the BRICS: Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. In this first book to be written about the BRICS as a collective phenomenon, Pádraig Carmody reveals how their engagements with Africa, both individually and collectively, are often contradictory, generating new inequalities and potential for development. Crucially, Carmody shows how the geopolitics of the BRICS countries' involvement in Africa is impacted by and impacts upon their international relations more generally, and how the emergence of these economies has begun to alter the very nature of globalization, which is no longer purely a Western-led project. This is a path-breaking examination of Africa's changing role in the world.

Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa

Author : Ana Garcia (Economist)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781608465330
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (653 download)

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Download or read book Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa written by Ana Garcia (Economist) and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A critical examination of the contradictory rise to power of emerging economies Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa.

The Rise of the BRICS in Africa. Developmental or Self-Interest?

Author : Abdikadir Askar
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3668719853
Total Pages : 23 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (687 download)

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Download or read book The Rise of the BRICS in Africa. Developmental or Self-Interest? written by Abdikadir Askar and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2018-06-07 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essay from the year 2018 in the subject Politics - Topic: Development Politics, grade: A, The University of York, course: MA (Conflict, Development and Governance), language: English, abstract: Based on the Africanist theory of International Relations, the paper examines how the rise of the BRICS countries, particularly China, reshaped the economic and geopolitical realities in Africa for the past two decades. Across infrastructure financing, trade, investment and aid, there is no other traditional Western Power with such colossal engagement in Africa than China. The Chinese companies invest enormously in all across Africa by bringing new technologies, creating jobs, developing skills for the local Africans and immensely contributing to the Africa state’s public revenue. The recent Africa-China economic relationship has threatened the dominance of the traditional ‘Great Powers' in the fields of economics and geopolitics. However, the paper will shed light on the challenges of the Sino/Africa relations from the African perspectives particularly how the Chinese workers and the ‘cheap' and ‘substandard’ products overflowing African domestic markets. Considering both sides of the coin, China's involvement in Africa is perceived positively by Africans, as such China is a significant partner who has generated multiple prospects for African development despite Africa’s development move is relatively sluggish.

The BRICS and Coexistence

Author : Cedric de Coning
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317659643
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)

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Download or read book The BRICS and Coexistence written by Cedric de Coning and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-09-15 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The grouping consisting of Brazil, Russia, India and China (BRIC) was initially meant to be nothing more than clever investment jargon referring to the largest and most attractive emerging economies. However, these countries identified with the BRIC concept, and started to meet annually as a group in 2008. At their fourth summit in 2011, they added South Africa to become the BRICS. By then the BRICS had fully morphed from investment jargon to a name for a new economic and political grouping that had the potential to challenge the unipolar hegemony of the United States and its Western allies. This work analyses the extent to which the concept of coexistence explains the individual foreign policies of the BRICS countries. The editors define coexistence as a strategy that promotes the establishment of a rule-based system for co-managing the global order. It recognizes that different states may legitimately pursue their own political and economic interests, but they have to do so within the bounds of a rule-based international system that ensures the peaceful coexistence of states. The BRICS and Coexistence addresses the political dimension of the emergence and influence of the BRICS in the international system and will be of interest to students and scholars of Politics, Development and International Relations.

The BRICS in International Development

Author : Jing Gu
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137556463
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (375 download)

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Download or read book The BRICS in International Development written by Jing Gu and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-09-29 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a comprehensive comparative perspective on the increasingly significant development cooperation activities of the BRICS. Providing a powerful set of insights into the drivers for engagement within each country, it brings together leading experts from Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa and OECD countries. The authors review the empirical evidence for the BRICS’ modes of development cooperation and their geographical reach, and explore the historical background and patterns of international development engagement of each country. They also present a cutting-edge analysis of the broader geopolitical shifts, distinctive ideologies and normative discourses that are influencing and informing their engagement in increasingly ambitious joint projects such as the New Development Bank. This collection is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the rapidly changing landscape of international development.

Critical Issues in South African Education

Author : Charl C. Wolhuter
Publisher : AOSIS
ISBN 13 : 1928523625
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (285 download)

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Download or read book Critical Issues in South African Education written by Charl C. Wolhuter and published by AOSIS. This book was released on 2020-12-31 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The main thesis of this book is that, given that South African education faces major challenges, the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) constellation of states offers — thus far overlooked — a valuable tertium comparationis, a source of international comparative perspectives, to inform the domestic scholarly discourse on education. This book first investigates the national contexts and development of education in the BRICS countries, arguing that this grouping represents a valuable but yet overlooked field for illuminating South African education issues with international perspectives. The book consists of chapters arguing for and illustrating this thesis from a variety of angles. Common to all chapters is that authors used the comparative method in education, that is comparing the national education system, in their education societal context interrelationships, of the BRICS countries. The chapters focus on a number of critical issues in South African education, including the language of learning and teaching issue, the alignment of the world of education with the world of work, early childhood education, and the development of world-class universities. Regarding the last, for example, China has been the terrain of the most intensive national projects of establishing world-class universities, with Project 985, Project 211, and the “Double First Class University” project. The chapters demonstrate what South Africa, in approaching her education issues, can learn from the experience of the BRICS countries.

The BRICS Order

Author : David Monyae
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030627659
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book The BRICS Order written by David Monyae and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-02-08 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the direction of the BRICS association. Beginning with historical analyses of the broader Global South and the fundamental composition of the BRICS countries and then moving on to present trends, The BRICS Order evaluates the variables that will influence the association’s future. While the BRICS as a forum emerged as a result of the visible fragmentation of the post-1945 world order, it itself remains dogged by issues emanating from internal divergences among member states and from external factors. The contributors interrogate the extent to which this formation of “emerging economies” is indicative of a challenge to the West, or in fact a complimentary relation. Integral to these studies – which encompass examinations of such diverse areas as governance systems, issues in bilateral relations, security threats, multilateral institution building, the transnational creation and dissemination of knowledge, and technological innovation – are patterns of convergence and divergence which render the countries not a formal alliance, but as signifiers of a multilateral future in which the West is itself to become more heterogeneous and thus become occasionally complemented depending on the vacillating consensus within the BRICS association and on the interests of the BRICS countries at different points in time.

BRICS and Development Alternatives

Author : José Eduardo Cassiolato
Publisher : Anthem Press
ISBN 13 : 0857288776
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (572 download)

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Download or read book BRICS and Development Alternatives written by José Eduardo Cassiolato and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) are currently at the crossroads of major structural economic and political changes. This book provides a comparative analysis of the national innovation systems of the five BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) and the trends in each of their science, technology and innovation policies. It makes use of an analytical framework, the concept 'systems of innovation and competence building' developed within 'Globelics' (the Global Research Network on the Economics of Learning, Innovation and Capacity Building Systems).

The BRICS and the Future of Global Order

Author : Oliver Stuenkel
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1498567282
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)

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Download or read book The BRICS and the Future of Global Order written by Oliver Stuenkel and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-02-03 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The transformation of the BRIC acronym from an investment term into a household name of international politics and into a semi-institutionalized political outfit (called BRICS, with a capital ‘S’), is one of the defining developments in international politics in the past decades. While the concept is now commonly used in the general public debate and international media, there has not yet been a comprehensive and scholarly analysis of the history of the BRICS term. The BRICS and the Future of Global Order, Second Edition offers a definitive reference history of the BRICS as a term and as an institution—a chronological narrative and analytical account of the BRICS concept from its inception in 2001 to the political grouping it is today. In addition, it analyzes what the rise of powers like Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa means for the future of global order. Will the BRICS countries seek to establish a parallel system with its own distinctive set of rules, institutions, and currencies of power, rejecting key tenets of liberal internationalism, are will they seek to embrace the rules and norms that define today’s Western-led order?

Foreign Capital Flows and Economic Development in Africa

Author : Evelyn Wamboye
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137534966
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (375 download)

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Download or read book Foreign Capital Flows and Economic Development in Africa written by Evelyn Wamboye and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-03-16 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection examines the extent to which foreign capital from conventional (OECD countries) and non-conventional (BRICS) sources has impacted economic development in Africa over the last two decades. It provides in-depth analyses of the nature, motives, and implications of this capital, and identifies drivers of contemporary rapid growth within and across African countries. Authored by leading experts, the book offers original insights for academics, policymakers, and practitioners studying the changes taking place in Africa as the continent strides more confidently toward integration with the global economy. The major themes addressed in this book include:• The implications of growing Chinese engagement in Africa • BRICS countries' versus OECD countries' investment contributions to Africa• The politics of land, land grab, and the puzzle of inclusive development in Africa• Foreign research and development spillovers, trade linkages, and productivity in Africa• Foreign aid effects on social sector, growth, and structural change in Africa• Remittances, foreign debt, resource management, and economic development in Africa

The BRICS and the Financing Mechanisms They Created

Author : Paulo Nogueira Batista Jr.
Publisher : Anthem Press
ISBN 13 : 183998208X
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (399 download)

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Download or read book The BRICS and the Financing Mechanisms They Created written by Paulo Nogueira Batista Jr. and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2021-10-12 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book provides an assessment of BRICS cooperation, focusing on the new financing mechanisms created by the BRICS, the monetary fund and the development bank. It is shown that Brazil, Russia, India and China, joined later by South Africa, share common traits that led them to cooperate in the reform of the international financial architecture, especially the G20 and the IMF. After 2012, in light of the difficulty of having advanced countries agree to move from “tinkering at the margins” to fundamental reform of the Bretton Woods institutions, the BRICS decided to establish their own monetary fund, named the BRICS Contingent Reserve Arrangement (CRA), and their own development bank, named the New Development Bank (NDB). The book describes the difficult negotiations among the BRICS between 2012 and 2014. Some of these difficulties revealed the weaknesses that would lead the CRA and the NDB to make slow progress in the first years of their existence. The book provides an overview of the strong points and weaknesses of the initial phase of these financing mechanisms. It ends with a discussion of the future of the BRICS, highlighting that joint action by the five countries is likely to remain an important feature of the international landscape in the decades to come.

The BRICS: A Very Short Introduction

Author : Andrew F. Cooper
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191035033
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The BRICS: A Very Short Introduction written by Andrew F. Cooper and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-04-28 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the wake of the post-Cold War era, the aftermath of 9/11, the 2008 global financial crisis, and the emergence of the G20 at the leaders level, few commentators expected a reshaping of the global system towards multipolarity, and away from the United States. And yet, the BRICS - encompassing Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa - has emerged as a challenge to the international status quo. But what is its capacity as a transformative force? And can it provide a significant counter-narrative to the Western dominated global order? In this Very Short Introduction Andrew Cooper explores the emergence of the BRICS as a concept. Drawing on historical precedent, Cooper provides a contemporary analysis of the BRICS' practice and influence as as a forum and a lobby group in advancing a distinctive but amorphous agenda amongst global politics. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.

Rising BRICs and Changes in Sub-Saharan Africa’s Business Cycle Patterns

Author : Oumar Diallo
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
ISBN 13 : 1484306597
Total Pages : 26 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (843 download)

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Download or read book Rising BRICs and Changes in Sub-Saharan Africa’s Business Cycle Patterns written by Oumar Diallo and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2014-02-14 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper assesses the extent to which Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA)’s business cycle is synchronized with that of the rest of the world (RoW). Findings suggest that SSA’s business cycle has not only moved in the same direction as that of the RoW, but has also gradually drifted away from the G7 in favour of the BRICs. Trade with the BRICs turns out to be the strongest driver of this shift. Much of this impact unfolds through aggregate demand impulse from trade. As fiscal policy stances in SSA and the BRICs are not synchronized, they have not caused cyclical output correlation between these two groups of countries. Also, financial openness, which is at a very early stage across most SSA countries, has acted as a neutral force.

BRICS or Bust?

Author : Hartmut Elsenhans
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 1503604918
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book BRICS or Bust? written by Hartmut Elsenhans and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2017-09-12 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once among the fastest developing economies, growth has slowed or stalled in Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa. What policies can governments enact to jump-start the rise of these middle-income countries? Hartmut Elsenhans and Salvatore Babones argue that economic catch-up requires investment in the productivity of ordinary citizens. Diverging from the popular narrative of increased liberalization, this book argues specifically for direct government investment in human infrastructure; policies that increase wages and the bargaining power of labor; and the strategic use of exchange rates to encourage export-led growth. These measures raise up the majority and finance future productivity by driving broader consumption and fostering investment within national borders. Though strategies like full employment, mass education, and progressive taxation are not especially controversial, none of the BRICS have truly embraced them. Examining barriers to implementation, Elsenhans and Babones find that the main obstacle to such reforms is an absence of political will, stemming from closely guarded elite privilege under the current laws. BRICS or Bust? is a short, incisive read that underscores the need for demand-driven growth and why it has yet to be achieved.