The financial crisis that began in the US in the year 2007 became a full-scale crisis in the year 2008 and 2009 which, in turn, affected each and every economy in some way or the other including the ones which were not directly related to the crisis. There has been considerable slowdown in most...

The rise of the BRICS is evident to the general public yet little academic literature has been written regarding its collective role in the international scenario Rather, this coalition is widely considered to be solely a descriptive acronym of the emerging powers. This dissertation studies the...