Handbook of BRICS and Emerging Economies

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).

• 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 Bellé, 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

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.