The financial crisis led to a deep recession in many industrial countries. While large emerging countries recovered relatively quickly from the financial crisis, their performance deteriorated in the recent years, despite the modest recovery in advanced economies. The higher divergence of...

This study employs a Panel Structural Vector Autoregressive model (P - SVAR) to investigate how monetary policy shocks affect industrial output in BRICS countries using monthly data for the period 1994:1 to 2013:12. A nine variable P - SVAR with short-run restrictions among the variables is...

The financial crisis led to a deep recession in many industrial countries. While large emerging countries recovered relatively quickly from the financial crisis, their performance deteriorated in the last years, despite the modest recovery in advanced economies. The higher divergence of business...

The financial crisis led to a deep recession in many industrial countries. While large emerging countries recovered relatively quickly from the financial crisis, their performance deteriorated in the last years, despite the modest recovery in advanced economies. The higher divergence of business...

The financial crisis led to a deep recession in many industrial countries. However, the downturn in large emerging markets turned out to be less persistent. Despite the modest recovery in advanced economies, GDP growth declined in emerging markets in the last years. The higher divergence of...

Introduction: the BRICS as a club -- Global power shift: the BRICS, building capabilities for influence -- BRICS collective financial statecraft: four cases -- Motives for BRICS collaboration: views from the five capitals -- Conclusion: whither the BRICS?

Introduction -- Core International Tax Policy and Law -- Evasion and Avoidance According to the BRICS -- Countering Avoidance : SAARs -- Information Exchange -- Countering Treaty Benefits -- BEPS Final 2015 Reports -- Dispute Resolution -- BRICS and FDI : DTC Anti-abuse and Dispute Resolution --...

This book is the result of a collaborative effort in which environmental historians from Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa came together to offer new perspectives on the new and somehow intriguing entity. These scholars forged a dialogue from their own historical traditions to find...

Introduction / Tembinkosi Bonakele, Eleanor M. Fox, and Liberty Mncube -- Towards a broader view of competition policy / Joseph E. Stiglitz -- Outsider antitrust : making markets work for people as a post-millennium development goal / Eleanor M. Fox -- The case for a BRICS competition agenda /...

Empirical evidence on convergence of travel & tourism competitiveness and global competitiveness across the BRIC countries -- Stakeholder engagement via social media in the hospitality sector :the evidence from BRIC countries -- Benchmarking best practices of the BRIC nations : study of...

From development to BRICS : the policy magical mystery tour / Richard Westra -- Brics up close -- Current paths of development in the southern cone : deindustrialization and a return to the agro-export model / Paul Cooney -- A BRIC despite itself : sustained growth versus neoliberalism in India...