Strengthening Evidence Based Policy - Rising Powers in International Development: Recent submissions
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The Role of Business in Driving and Shaping Renewable Energy Policies in China
(IDS, 2016-01)This report investigates the role of business actors in shaping China’s renewable energy policy process and governance. It finds that with the tremendous growth of renewable industry over the past two decades, a new ... -
Businesses from the Rising Powers: Traditional or Progressive Development Partners for Africa?
(IDS, 2015-10)Expectations about the role of businesses as development actors have become almost unrecognisable from the ones summarised by Milton Friedman: ‘The only social responsibility of business is to increase its profits’ (Friedman ... -
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 ... -
China’s Emergence as a Global Recycling Hub – What Does it Mean for Circular Economy Approaches Elsewhere?
(IDS, 2015-09)This Evidence Report investigates how China’s rise as a global recycling hub affects other countries’ prospects for moving towards a circular economy. This question has received little, if any, attention in the burgeoning ... -
Is Indian Development Cooperation Taking a New Direction Under Modi?
(IDS, 2015-06)Rising powers such as the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) are taking independent stands and changing the discourse on development cooperation in international fora. India has played a key role in ... -
Who Drives Climate-relevant Policy Implementation in China?
(IDS, 2015-05)Climate change is emerging as one of the biggest challenges confronting the sustainability of our planet, affecting the development prospects of both developed and developing countries. There is a global effort to find ... -
Rising Powers in International Capital Movement
(IDS, 2015-05)Module outline for the Rising Powers in International Capital Movement module, taught by Alexander Bulatov as part of a Teaching and Learning Visiting Fellowship under the IDS Rising Powers in International Development ... -
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 ... -
National Development Banks in the BRICS: Lessons for the Post-2015 Development Finance Framework
(IDS, 2015-04)In 2015, the framework to succeed the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) will be agreed. As described in the outcome document of the United Nations Rio+20 conference, The Future We Want, the mobilisation and effective use ... -
China’s Development Finance: Ambition, Impact and Transparency
(IDS, 2015-04)In a context of lagging reform in the Bretton Woods institutions, China has brought the debate on its role as a rising power in global economic governance onto the front pages, notably with the divided response of ‘the ... -
Political Economy of Climate-relevant Policies: the Case of Renewable Energy in South Africa
(IDS/University of Cape Town, 2015-04)Integrated energy (electricity generation) policy is by no means a settled issue in the post-apartheid era in South Africa. The policy framework is predicated on the need for new and additional energy generation capacity. ... -
Is China’s Role in African Fragile States Exploitative or Developmental?
(IDS, 2015-03)China’s increasing engagement in Africa has generated heated debates over the extent to which its activities are exploitative or developmental. There is particular concern over China’s impact on governance in fragile ... -
Emerging Powers and International Development
(2015-03)Module outline and PowerPoint presentations for the Emerging Powers and International Development module, taught by Xiuli Xu as part of a Teaching and Learning Visiting Fellowship under the IDS Rising Powers in International ... -
FDI from the BRICS
(2015-03)Module outline and PowerPoint presentations for the FDI from the BRICS module, taught by Yuriy K. Zaytsev as part of a Teaching and Learning Visiting Fellowship under the IDS Rising Powers in International Development ... -
China’s Engagement in International Development Cooperation: The State of the Debate
(IDS, 2015-02)This research aims to investigate the recent evolution of China’s discourse on development and aid. More precisely, how do China’s policymakers and influential scholars understand and debate China’s role in the field of ... -
Rising Powers in International Development: Learning Events 2014
(IDS, 2015-02)This report provides an overview of the objectives of and discussions held at three learning events held by the IDS Rising Powers in International Development programme in 2014. -
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 ... -
Realising the Potential of Civil Society-led South-South Development Cooperation
(IDS, 2015-01)Civil Society Organisations from the BRICS countries and Mexico are leading a huge range of South-South Development Cooperation (SSDC) initiatives. New research shows how these initiatives are promoting social accountability, ... -
Advisory Council Seminar VI, 7 July 2014: IDS Rising Powers in International Development Advisory Council Discussion
(IDS, 2014-10)This document presents a summary of a discussion held on 7 July 2014 between members of the Advisory Council of the IDS Rising Powers in International Development (RPID) programme and IDS RPID staff members. The discussion ... -
Understanding China’s Approaches to International Development
(IDS, 2014-10)China’s impressive economic growth and increasing development activities overseas, particularly in the African continent, have spurred intense debate and criticism over its role as a rising power in international development. ...