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30 April 2015
Published by: IDS
In this report, the central question of our research is who drives/obstructs climate-relevant policies in Brazil, paying special attention to renewable energy policies, climate policies and politics.
14 April 2015
Published by: IDS
In 2015, the framework to succeed the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) will be agreed. As described in the outcome document of the United Nations Rio+20 conference, The Future We Want, the mobilisation and effective use of stable, sufficient and suitable development finance must be a crucial part of this framework.
13 April 2015
Published by: IDS
In a context of lagging reform in the Bretton Woods institutions, China has brought the debate on its role as a rising power in global economic governance onto the front pages, notably with the divided response of ‘the West’ to membership in the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), which is to be headquartered in Beijing.
10 April 2015
Published by: IDS
Integrated energy (electricity generation) policy is by no means a settled issue in the post-apartheid era in South Africa. The policy framework is predicated on the need for new and additional energy generation capacity.
23 March 2015
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
Rising powers such as Brazil, India and China have been criticised for being obstructive in the negotiations on the post-2015 development agenda.
12 March 2015
Published by: IDS
China’s increasing engagement in Africa has generated heated debates over the extent to which its activities are exploitative or developmental.
23 February 2015
Published by: IDS
This research aims to investigate the recent evolution of China’s discourse on development and aid. More precisely, how do China’s policymakers and influential scholars understand and debate China’s role in the field of international development aid, specifically in the context of China as a ‘rising power’?
20 February 2015
Published by: IDS
This report provides an overview of the objectives of and discussions held at three learning events held by the IDS Rising Powers in International Development programme in 2014.
13 February 2015
Published by: IDS
The BRIC acronym was created at the beginning of the 2000s to represent a group of four fast-growing economies – Brazil, Russia, India and China – and was changed to BRICS in December 2010 with the inclusion of South Africa.
19 January 2015
Published by: IDS
Civil Society Organisations from the BRICS countries and Mexico are leading a huge range of South-South Development Cooperation (SSDC) initiatives.