Handbook of BRICS and Emerging Economies

Name: Handbook of BRICS and Emerging Economies
Brand: Oxford University Press
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Pb Anand Shailaja Fennell Flavio Comim(Editor)

Oxford University Press

Published on 17. December 2020

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1184 pages

978-0-19-882753-5 (ISBN)

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Ever since Jim O'Neill at Goldman Sachs coined the term BRICS in 2001 there have been many different assessments of these major emerging economies, with some even proclaiming that the promise of the BRICS (comprising Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) is over. However, the so called 'arranged marriage' still seems to be working well, with the club having become a formal international forum, with summit declarations, ministerial meetings, and numerous BRICS-wide fora. Is this euphoria misplaced? Is there a BRICS model of economic and human development? Are inequalities increasing and is this the denouncement of the economic successes? Are geo-political tensions rising between these nations?

During the post COVID-19 situation, the importance of bilateral and multilateral co-operation mechanisms and institutions is becoming clear. This book focuses on one such emerging co-operation mechanism of BRICS but also more widely on those five countries and other similar economies. As a global depression looms large, global economic recovery depends on the performance of not only its largest economies but also many other important and significant economies within the so called G20 group. Even prior to the COVID-19 outbreak multilateral institutions have been under considerable strain, as with the relationship between the United States of America and China, and risks to global economic recovery appear very real. This book brings together multi-disciplinary perspectives from over sixty scholars and it presents a comprehensive and deep dive into the BRICS and emerging economies and into an understanding the political, economic, and social contexts that can help in designing approaches for recovery and regaining the last momentum in the journey towards the Sustainable Development Goals.

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This Handbook covers an astonishingly diverse range of topics in the economics, political economy, human development, global governance and inter-governmental relations of BRICS and emerging economies. It achieves the formidable feat of exploring most of those topics comparatively across different countries, marrying detailed empirical data with incisive analytical reflection. The book will be an immensely rich, authoritative, and comprehensive resource for academics and policy-makers alike. * Professor Nandini Gooptu, Oxford Department for International Development * When I coined the expression BRICs twenty years ago, I highlighted the importance of re-thinking the role of emerging economies and their potential in global economic prospects. I am thrilled to see this book comes out just in time for the twentieth anniversary. It is an exhaustive compilation of 43 chapters that provide an in-depth coverage of social, economic, environmental, institutional and global governance dimensions. Nearly a decade after my coining the expression, the five countries came together with formal summits. Presently at G7 and G20, the role of these economies and involving them for better global governance is being recognised. The ideas discussed in this book will be very useful for researchers as well as policy economists to navigate the complexities of global economic prospects over the coming decades. I am delighted to recommend this book to anyone interested in these issues. * Lord Jim O'Neill * BRICS and emerging economies tend to be understood either as countries at an interim 'half-way point' on the development journey, as nations confronting a decisive set of unique policy challenges (e.g., 'the middle-income trap'), or as distinctive institutional actors offering (e.g., via the New Development Bank) an alternative model for giving and receiving development assistance. This carefully curated Handbook provides readers with insights on all three approaches, offering constructive analytical, empirical, and policy foundations on which to advance theory and practice. * Michael Woolcock, World Bank and Harvard University * A very comprehensive book on the BRICS countries and other emerging economies covering a whole range of issues from social, environmental, political and governance and legal institutions. This book will be an asset for scholars wanting to carry out a comparative study on BRICS countries and other emerging economies. * Professor Subrata Sarkar, Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, Mumbai, India * This is a formidable compilation of essays on diverse aspects of development in many of the new powerhouses of the global economy. The scope is outstanding, covering country-specific challenges and successes, as well as broader issues of global governance and collaboration that are so vital in these uncertain times. * Professor Ivan Turok, Executive Director of Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) of South Africa and Editor in Chief of Regional Studies * The Handbook of BRICS and Emerging Economies, edited by PB Anand, Shailaja Fennell, and Flavio Comim, will serve as an authoritative analysis of emerging economies for many years to come. The list of contributors to the volume and the coverage of topics is impressive. A must read for scholars and practitioners alike. * Kunal Sen, Director, UNU-WIDER *

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Persons

P.B. Anand is Professor of Public Policy and Sustainable Development and Head of Peace Studies and International Development at the University of Bradford. He is a member of the Council of the Development Studies Association and a Fellow of the Human Development and Capability Association. He previously worked in a development bank in India and managed an executive education programme portfolio at Bradford for the staff of China Development Bank (2007-13) and the Aga Khan Foundation (2013-15). He was the principal author and team leader of the Mongolia Human Development Report 2011 and contributed to UNDP studies on climate change, extractive economies, and sustainable development. He is the author of Scarcity, Entitlements and the Economics of Water in Developing Countries (2007) and many papers on global public goods, access to water and smart cities. With Flavio Comim and Shailaja Fennell, he edited New Frontiers of the Capability Approach (Cambridge University Press, 2018).

Shailaja Fennell is Reader in Regional Transformation and Economic Security at the Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge. She is a Fellow of the Human Development and Capability Association and a member of the governing council of the Development Studies Association (UK). She has undertaken more than two decades of research in both Asian and African countries, and has been a consultant with the World Bank, DFID, Oxfam and ASEAN. Her previous publications include Rules, Rubrics and Riches: The Interrelations between Legal Reform and International Development (2010), and she has published papers in the fields of comparative regional development to examine how the lives of rural and urban communities have been affected by the nature and directives of development policy.

Flavio Comim is a Development Economist and an Associate Professor of Economics at the IQS School of Management, Ramon Llull University in Spain and an Affiliated Lecturer at Land Economy University of Cambridge. He has worked for the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and has been a consultant for UNESCO, WHO, UNEP (UN Environment Programme), and ILO in several development projects. He has co-edited several books, including The Capability Approach: Concepts, Measures and Applications (2008), with Mozaffar Qizilbash and Sabina Alkire; Capabilities and Happiness (2008), with Luigino Bruni and Maurizio Pugno; Capabilities, Gender, Equality (2014), with Martha Nussbaum; and New Frontiers of Human Development with Shailaja Fennell and P.B. Anand (2018).

Editor

Pb Anand

Professor of Public Policy and Sustainable DevelopmentProfessor of Public Policy and Sustainable Development, University of Bradford, UK

Shailaja Fennell

Reader, Department of Land EconomyReader, Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge, UK

Flavio Comim

Associate Professor of EconomicsAssociate Professor of Economics, University Ramon Llull/IQS, Spain

Content

Section I: Introduction
1: PB Anand, Shailaja Fennell, and Flavio Comim: BRICS and emerging economies: an assessment
Section II: Economic Perspectives, Resources, and Development
2: Martin Daunton: WTO and the BRICS: a historical perspective
3: Deepak Nayyar: BRICS and other emerging economies
4: Moazam Mahmood and Florence Bonnett: Growth, employment, and social protection in BRICS
5: John Weiss: Development banks in BRICS with a focus on Brazil
6: Vinode Ramgopal and Ashish Kalra: Capitalizing the world
7: Rashmi Arora: Financial inclusion and financial stability in India
8: Mario Biggieri: Informal sector in China and India
9: Dan Meng, Yan Gao, and Xioayang Li: Rural-urban migration and its multi-dimensional impacts in China
10: PB Anand: Extractive economies, institutions, and development: Implications for BRICS and emerging economies
11: Degol Hailu: Africa's extractive economies
12: Padraig Carmody: Building BRICS in Africa
13: Richard Sidebottom: Cotton production and trade in West Africa
Section III: Social Development Challenges and Perspectives
14: Flavio Comim: Publicness and human development: an illustration from BRICs
15: David Clark: Reason, argument, and agitation: can South Africa follow in the footsteps of the BRICS countries?
16: A Dalcin, T Kang, Daiane Zanon, Felipe Belle, Luana Betti, , Fabio Rasche Jr, Daiane Zanon, and F Comim: Education in BRICS
17: G Garibotto: Early childhood and human development
18: C. Raj Kumar: Building world class universities in BRICS: reflections
19: Kenia Parsons: Hijacking of social protection by cash transfers- the case of Bolsa Familia
20: Miguel Nino Zarazua: Social protection in Mexico
21: Alice Krozer, Stephanie Garry, and Juan-Carlos Moreno Brid: Minimum wages and inequality in Mexico: an example (not) to follow
22: S Chatterjee: The illegal trade in organs and poverty in India: a comparative analysis with Brazil and China
Section IV: Inequality and Political Economies
23: Prabir Bhattacharya and Vibhor Saxena: Demography and roots of gender inequality in BRICS
24: Sabino da Silva Porto Junior, Bernardo Frederes Kramwr Alcalde, and Izete Pengo Bagolin: Equality of opportunity in Brazil and India: an empirical exercise for the 1993-2013 period.
25: Shailaja Fennell: Women and identity: negotiating institutional pathways to claim rights in China and India
26: Lucy McMahon: Violence and the BRICS
27: Catalina Droppelmann Roepke and Nicolas Trajenberg: Inequality and crime in Latin America
28: Javier Gonzalez-Diaz: The political economy of inequality in Chile: the role of institutions and power
29: David Potts: Development and inequality in the African lions
Section V: Sustainable Development Issues
30: Tadashi Hirai: Happiness in BRICS
31: Franklin Obeng-Odoom: Cities, oil, and national development
32: Nicholay Kolev and Yue Xu: Institutional changes in the oil industry: China versus Russia
33: Olga Ulybina: Is Russia going green?
34: Terry van Gevelt: Indigenous communities, ICT and rural development: case studies in Tanzania and Sarawak, Malaysia
35: Suresh Babu and Kamiljon Akramov: Food security in Central Asia and implications for BRICS
Section VI: Governance Issues
36: Richard Jolly: Humane global governance: an area for the future where progress inches forward
37: Haider Khan: Governing a complex global financial system in the age of global instabilities and BRICs
38: Deepanshu Mohan: Governing dynamics of a changing global order: case for the developing countries
39: Paul Jackson: United Nations? The BRICS and international peace keeping
40: Cassandra Sweet: Emerging powers coalitions: India and Brazil examined
41: Sunil Tankha: Economic, political, and social transformation in Brazil: a study in disorderly progress
42: Vsevolod Samokhlov: Reshaping Eurasia: Russian and Chinese regional approaches
43: Utku Teksoz: Turkey: always at crossroads, never quite there

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