Globalization and the BRICs

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

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3. BRICs: Beyond Developing?

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4. BRICs and Global Economic Power

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5. BRICs and Global Political Power

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6. Limit No. 1: BRICs and Inequality

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7. Limit No. 2: BRICs and the Silent Power of Ideas

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8. Conclusion: The Innovation-Equality-Development Triangle

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9. Back Matter

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As the Eurozone faces an uncertain future and Obama struggles to demonstrate that America still has a superpower status, this book challenges the widespread perception that Brazil, Russia, India and China are becoming global economic and political powers, instead forecasting a decline rooted in excessive inequality and insufficient innovation.

• China
• development
• globalization

• 4CAST, UK

  Francesca Beausang

FRANCESCA BEAUSANG is Senior Economist at 4CAST, where she covers both emerging markets and developed markets. Prior to that she worked as a strategist specializing in Eastern Europe and as UK economist. Before joining 4CAST, she was a lecturer in Development Studies at the London School of Economics. She was educated at the London School of Economics and at Cambridge University, where she undertook research on Brazilian and Chilean multinational enterprises and on innovation policy. She has published a book entitled Third World Multinationals, Engine of Competitiveness or New Form of Dependency?

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