Cooperation and Financing for Development
Financing and Cooperation for Development (LACID)
The Laboratory of Cooperation and Financing for Development (LACID), an initiative of the BRICS Policy Center, aims to analyze the main actors operating in the sphere of financing for development, in addition to understanding the transformations in global practices underway.
The program aims to develop a critical reflection on the intensification of relations between countries of the Global South, thinking about how they impact on the development and growth of these countries, thus seeking to contribute to the great international debate about development policies.
The research seeks to reflect on themes such as the relevance of Chinese investments in the world, especially in the South American region, as well as the role of multilateral development banks and financing efforts for the ongoing energy transition process.
Projects
Financing for Transition
With the increasing relevance of the energy transition process, it becomes important to understand the financial efforts directed to this process. Therefore, this line of research aims to understand the...
Development Banks
In this line of research, development banks are evaluated, starting with a monitoring of the main institutions that operate in South America, in order to understand how they contribute to...
Chinese Investments in the Pan-Amazon
The main objective of this line of research is to understand the trends regarding the flow of investments from China in the Pan-Amazon countries. The China Panel - a platform...
Transformations of Development Finance in Latin America and the Caribbean...
The project Finance for Development and Safeguards in Latin America and the Caribbean (FfD-LAC) aims to produce and disseminate quality information and analysis about the transformation of the Financing for...
Dialogues on International Development Cooperation
South-South Cooperation Dialogues is an annual event organized by the BPC team. The "Dialogues" have two goals: 1) to foster policy dialogues on issues related to South-South and Triangular Cooperation ...
Development Banks and Safeguards
The BRICS Policy Center in partnership with the Mott Foundation launched the project "Strengthening the Safeguards of New Development Banks" (“Fortalecendo as Salvaguardas dos Novos Bancos de Desenvolvimento”). The project...
China Panel
The China Panel is a platform that intends to gather, organize, and systematize data about Chinese investments in Brazil and South America, as well as the financial flows between countries in the region and China. Thus, the project seeks to increase the availability of data regarding China’s presence in the region, to promote transparency and access to information, and to allow the expansion of knowledge and open debate on the subject.
Amazon Observer
The Observatory of National Socio-environmental Protection Systems in the Amazon Region aims to monitor and analyze the development of socio-environmental protection mechanisms in the Amazon region. The Observatory is a component of the project “Strengthening the safeguards of new financial institutions” and began to be developed in 2017 with support from the Mott Foundation. Its construction counted with the collaboration of five institutions: Amazon Watch, CooperAcción, Instituto Latinoamericano para una Sociedad y un Derecho Alternativos (ILSA), Centro de Documentación e Información Bolivia (CEDIB) and the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS).
Publications
Comments on the XVI BRICS Summit – Kazan 2024
Between October 22 and 24, the BRICS countries met for the grouping's XVI Summit, held in Kazan, Russia, under the motto “Strengthening multilateralism for fair global development and security”.
China’s Role in a Just and Sustainable Global Energy Transition
The C.S. Mott Foundation supported a threeday convening in October 2024, titled, China's Role in a Just and Sustainable Energy Transition.
BNDES and Financing the Energy Transition (2016-2023)
In recent years, there have been intense debates about climate change, global warming and environmental issues in general. In the context of international governance, the Paris Agreement, signed on December...
Chinese Investments and Financing in the Pan-Amazonian Countries in Comparative...
The aim of this factsheet is to analyze, from a comparative perspective, the main projects involving Chinese investment and financing in five countries in the region that share the Amazon...
The New Development Bank’s Contribution to the Energy Transition Process...
Considering the growing relevance of the Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs) in the task of financing the global energy transition process, it is important to understand the efforts of these institutions...
The Role of Multilateral Development Banks in Financing Energy Transition...
With the signing of the Paris Agreement in 2015, the world institutionalized the goal of keeping global temperature rise below 2ºC, based on efforts to adapt to and mitigate climate...
The Role of The Inter-American Development Bank in Financing Energy...
In recent years, much has been discussed about climate change, global warming, and environmental issues in general. In the realm of international governance, the Paris Agreement, sealed on December 12,...
The impacts of the pandemic on investment flows in BRICS...
In 2020, with the advent of the pandemic, the lockdown and social isolation actions implemented by governments in order to contain the contagion of the virus had an impact on...
Chinese Electric Power Projects in the Pan-Amazonian region
The economic value of China’s financing of overseas projects is almost as relevant as that of the World Bank, albeit of a more intermittent nature. From 2008 to 2019, Chinese...
China’s Dilemma: Between leadership in the energy transition and coal...
China is one of the biggest international players in the energy sector. The country accounts for 26.1% of worldwide primary energy consumption, ahead of the United States and Europe. In...
Transformation at BNDES
The National Bank for Economic and Social Development (BNDES) is Brazil’s main institution for promoting national development. However, the bank has been losing strength and undergoing reformulations over time. Several...
National Development Bank – BNDES and New Development Bank –...
The precedence afforded in recent decades to environmental issues and to the centrality of a sustainable development agenda has led financial institutions to redefine and redirect their funding as well...
Chinese Companies’ Operations Abroad: Outlook on Chinese Government’s Guidance for...
In both the Going Global Strategy and the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), the presence of Chinese companies and investments across the world has increased in the past two decades...
Private Sector Engagement (PSE) through Development Cooperation
This fact sheet gives an overview of Private Sector Engagement through development Cooperation, its main instruments, strengths, weaknesses, threats, and opportunities.
SSC and the 2030 Agenda: Adopting and adapting the LNOB...
The people-centered logic of differentiation presented by the 2030 Agenda assumed that no one should be left behind. LNOB is an outstanding approach for making South-South Cooperation (SSC) work for...
Triangular Cooperation in Latin America and the Caribbean: paving the...
LAC countries can implement a much more integrated and sustainable response to the challenge of multidimensional inequality. Selected case studies, led by Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico, in partnership with developed...
Private Sector Engagement Provided by Emerging Economies
This discussion paper proposes a typological framework to conceptualise how emerging economies support PSE in partner countries through development co-operation; explores how stakeholders regard issues related to the effectiveness of...
Brazilian Technical Cooperation for Africa (2003-2013)
The objective of this publication is to study the institutional dynamics of Brazilian development cooperation, focusing on technical cooperation, during the period 2003 to 2013, especially with regard to the...
Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB)
The China-led initiative aims to foster sustainable development and promote regional cooperation and partnership in addressing common development challenges in Asian countries.
The BRICS and the New Development Bank
This Policy Brief discusses the process of the creation of the NBD, its significance for financing development, and finally its effects.
The China-CELAC Forum
This fact sheet outlines the increasing presence of China in Latin America and the cooperation between China and the newly found China-CELAC forum, as a way to enhance South-South cooperation.
The New Multilateral Development Banks and Socio-environmental Safeguards
By analyzing three sets of socio-environmental policies and safeguards recently disclosed by the two new MDBs noted above and by the World Bank, which just presented a revision of its...
Exploring Indian Engagement in Agriculture and Health: A Case of...
This publication brings reflexions on practices of the cooperation sectors of agriculture and health between India and Mozambique and Angola.
Brazilian health and agricultural cooperation in Angola: An overview
The objective of this research report is to synthesize key findings, contextual information and analysis required for understanding Brazil’s engagement in Angola, as well as basic information on projects being...
Chinese and Brazilian Private Firms in Sub-Saharan Africa
This fact sheet outlines the expansion and diversification of private investment from Brazil and China in SSA, and the extent to which private companies from the two countries are engaging...
The BRICS Development Bank: A New Tool for South-South Cooperation?
The Policy Brief presnets the current structure for development financing, pointing to the potential influence of the New Development Bank (NBD) on the BRICS South-South cooperation relations.
Chinese Cooperation in Mozambique and Angola: A Focus on Agriculture...
This publication seeks to think over China’s agency on South-South Cooperation for development and the shifts that this model represents to the traditional “North-South” cooperation.
BRICS and the challenges in fighting inequality
this document contains four analyses of key issues for the understanding of BRICS and its world, and the possibilities of changes brought to the fore by the joint action of...
The BRICS and the Global Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation...
Policy Brief "The BRICS and the Global Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation (GPEDC)".
Brazilian Health and Agricultural Cooperation in Mozambique: An Overview
Working Paper “Brazilian Health and Agricultural Cooperation in Mozambique: An Overview” by Adriana Erthal Abdenur, João Moura Estevão Marquês da Fonseca, Geovana Zoccal Gomes and Paulo Esteves. March, 2014.
China’s Engagement in Africa: Responding to Growing Tensions and Contradictions
The aim of this Policy Brief is to point out some of the growing tensions and contradictions that have emerged in relation to China’s increased engagement in Africa, and that...
BRICS, Development Cooperation and the Busan Forum
This Policy Brief addresses the outcomes of the Fourth High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness (HLF-4), held from November 29 to December 1 in Busan, South Korea.
Prospects for Health Cooperation from Sanya in the BRICS
The BRICS are a group whose great convergence is the desire for reform of the International System, aiming at the practical manifestation of the changes in power relations triggered by...
Sino-African Cooperation: Trends and Impacts for Official Development Assistance
The Chinese presence in Africa has, since the last century, promoted projects in the infrastructure, natural resources, agriculture and the textile industry sectors. In fact, since the Cold War, it...
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