This Policy Brief places the debate on energy matrices and uneven development within the framework of the current discussions that guided the UN Conference on Sustainable Development, Rio + 20....
The Indian proposal of a BRICS bank to finance projects in emerging countries was strengthened in the meeting between the Indian chancellor, S.M Krishna, and his Chinese counterpart, Yang Jiechi....
This Policy Brief analyzes the evolution of two indicators of BRICS countries' scientific production capacity and innovation: R & D investment and the intellectual property registration of industrial innovation products...
In this Policy Brief, we argue that it is possible to analyze the relevance of the BRICS countries and their cities in this production of new protagonisms from a category...
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....
This Policy Brief examines the evolution of BRICS relative participation in global scientific and technological production as an indicator of ongoing realignments in the global political economy. At the outset,...
This Policy Brief examines the evolution of the participation of the BRICS countries in the global GDP measured in Poder Paritário de Compra (PPC) from 1900 to 2008, the year...
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...
In the field of development aid, there is a trend of traditional donors losing of centrality and an increasing importance of emerging countries with new aid practices, particularly in the...
This Policy Brief uses the theoretical framework developed in the Cities-BRICS Policy Brief and complements it with the concept of sustainability, trying to verify if the model of social inclusion...