Brazil: Recent submissions
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Family, Households and Women’s Empowerment in Bahia, Brazil, Through the Generations: Continuities or Change?
(Institute of Development Studies, 2016-03-03)This article identifies changes and continuities in gender relations in a working class neighbourhood in Salvador, Bahia, through the generations. Based on data collected over a period of nearly 20 years, it seeks to ... -
Civil Society from the BRICS: Emerging Roles in the New International Development Landscape
(IDS, 2016-02)There is a burgeoning literature on the (re)emergence of the BRICS countries – Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa – as significant actors in international development. To date, however, most attention has focused ... -
China and Brazil in the Global Economy
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Reimagining Development with Indigenous People: Reflections from the São Gabriel da Cachoeira Workshop
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, September )Across the world, development is either failing or threatening indigenous peoples. The Brazil Reimagining Development event was held in the small Amazonian town of São Gabriel da Cachoeira, an important centre of indigenous ... -
Indigenous Peoples and the Regulation of REDD+ in Brazil: Beyond the War of the Worlds?
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 1/5/2011)This article focuses on the actors, interests and ideologies shaping Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) regulation in Brazil, with a particular focus on indigenous territories. It examines ... -
Brazil and China in Mozambican Agriculture: Emerging Insights from the Field
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, July 2013)Mozambique, a country undergoing rapid transformations driven by the recent discovery of mineral resources, is one of the top destinations for Chinese and Brazilian cooperation and investment in Africa. This article provides ... -
Brazil–Africa Agricultural Cooperation Encounters: Drivers, Narratives and Imaginaries of Africa and Development
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, July 2013)Brazilian development cooperation is increasingly in the spotlight. Africa is a major destination and agriculture tops the list of priority fields on intervention, with Embrapa leading cooperation projects. But patterns ... -
Real Time Monitoring with Indigenous Peoples: Technical, Social and Political Challenges, and Lessons from Brazil
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, March 2013)The government of Brazil has introduced two health and nutrition monitoring systems (the Indigenous Health Care Information System (SIASI) and the Food and Nutrition Surveillance System for Indigenous People (SISVAN?I) as ... -
Do Businesses from the BRICS Contribute to Development in Africa?
(IDS, 2015-10)As businesses from emerging economies become more globalised, expectations are raised about their role as responsible corporate citizens and development actors when operating in low-income countries. While businesses ... -
Rising Powers and Rice in Ghana: China, Brazil and African agricultural development
(Future Agricultures Consortium, 2015-07-01)This paper examines the nature of Chinese and Brazilian investments in agricultural development by focusing on the irrigated rice sector in Ghana. It examines this through a historic perspective that traces policy towards ... -
Who Drives Climate-relevant Policies in Brazil?
(IDS, 2015-04)In this report, the central question of our research is who drives/obstructs climate-relevant policies in Brazil, paying special attention to renewable energy policies, climate policies and politics. We aim to identify the ... -
Development Banks from the BRICS
(IDS, 2015-02)The BRIC acronym was created at the beginning of the 2000s to represent a group of four fast-growing economies – Brazil, Russia, India and China – and was changed to BRICS in December 2010 with the inclusion of South ... -
Brazilian Experiences of Participation and Citizenship: a Critical Look
(Institute of Development Studies, 2008)Brazil's emergence from two decades of military dictatorship in the mid-1980s gave rise to a flowering of democratic innovation. Experiences during the struggle for democracy shaped the experiments that took place over the ... -
Making the Right to Health a Reality for Brazil’s Indigenous Peoples: Innovation, Decentralization and Equity
(MEDICC Review, 2011-07-01)This article provides an overview of governance arrangements and changes in the Brazilian public health system since 1988, when the “Citizen’s Constitution” declared health to be a universal right. Since then, population ... -
Brazil's Engagement in International Development Cooperation: The State of the Debate
(IDS, 2014-05)The international development cooperation architecture has changed dramatically over the last decade. The global context, characterised by a lingering financial crisis and the emergence of new powers, has brought South–South ... -
Sustainability and growth: São Paulo
(IDS, 2011)The Global Dialogue on Sustainability, Climate Change and Economic Growth was held in São Paulo in October 2011. It was co-organised by the Brazilian Centre for Analysis and Planning (CEBRAP) and the Institute of Development ... -
Brazil’s International Development Cooperation at a Crossroads
(IDS, 2021-12)The IDS Rising Powers in International Development programme has launched a series of studies of key issues and debates on international development cooperation in BRICS countries, working with leading specialists from ... -
A Critical Analysis of Public Policies on Education and LGBT Rights in Brazil
(IDS, 2014-03)This audit analyses key aspects of public policies in education and sexuality in Brazil, which have been designed as part of the wider programme Brazil Without Homophobia (BWH – Programa Brasil sem Homofobia), launched in ... -
Evaluating Social Protection Policies: Lessons from Brazil
(Institute of Development Studies (IDS), 2013-04)Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) is considered a valuable mechanism for improving the quality of public policy and has become politically important for policymakers. However, few studies have covered the process of designing ... -
New Development Encounters: China and Brazil in African Agriculture
(John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 2013-07-03)There is currently much talk of the role of the ‘rising powers’ in Africa, and whether their engagements represent a ‘new paradigm’ in development cooperation. This article introduces this IDS Bulletin and examines Brazilian ...