Handbook of BRICS and Emerging Economies - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0198827539 ISBN 13: 9780198827535

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2020

Synopsis

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?

The Handbook of BRICS and Emerging Economies presents a comprehensive and multi-faceted analysis of the BRICS countries and other emerging economies, exploring their economic, social, environmental, and governance dimensions and other challenges. It brings together multi-disciplinary perspectives from more than fifty authors to examine how education contributed to the emergence of BRICS, how BRICS are impacting African economies, and how other emerging economies (including Chile, Mexico, Turkey, and others in Africa and Central Asia) compare. It observes the impact of governance challenges both within individual countries and in the forum for co-operation amongst them, what issues related to gender and identity based violence are prevalent, and what the security implications are and the role of BRICS is in contributing to peace keeping operations.

About this title

About the Author:

PB Anand, Reader in Environmental Economics and Public Policy, University of Bradford, UK,Shailaja Fennell, Lecturer, Centre of Development Studies, University of Cambridge, UK,Flavio Comim, Lecturer in Economics, University Ramon Llull/IQS, Spain

PB Anand is Reader in Environmental Economics and Public Policy at the University of Bradford where he has been teaching since 1998. He is a member of the Council of the Development Studies Association and a Fellow of the Human Development and Capability Association. He worked in a development bank in India and managed executive education programme portfolio at Bradford for the staff of China Development Bank (2007-2013) and the Aga Khan Foundation (2013-2015). His previous works include his book Scarcity, Entitlements and the Economics of Water in Developing Countries (2007) and papers on applying the capability approach to issues related to access to water and sustainability.

Shailaja Fennell is Lecturer in Development Studies and also the Director of Central Asia Research at the University of Cambridge. Her previous publications include Rules, Rubrics and Riches: The Interrelations between Legal Reform and International Development (2010) and Gender Education and Equality in a Global Context: Conceptual Frameworks and Policy Perspectives (ed. with M. Arnot, 2008).
Flavio Comim is an Associate Professor at the University Ramon Llull/IQS in Spain and an affiliated lecturer at the Centre of Development Studies, University of Cambridge. He has been a consultant for UNESCO, UNEP, FAO, WHO and UNDP. He co-edited the books The Capability Approach: Concepts, Measures and Applications (2008) with Mozaffar Qizilbash and Sabina Alkire and Capabilities, Gender, Equality (2014), with Martha Nussbaum.

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2020
• ISBN 10: 0198827539
• ISBN 13: 9780198827535
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 1184
• Editor: Anand PB, Fennell Shailaja, Comim Flavio