Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa (BRICS) represent almost half the world's population, and all five national governments recently committed to work nationally, regionally, and globally to ensure that universal health coverage (UHC) is achieved. This analysis reviews national efforts to achieve UHC. With a broad range of health indicators, life expectancy (ranging from 53 years to ...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether the health performance of Brazil, the Russian Federation, India, China and South Africa--the countries known as BRICS--has kept in step with their economic development. METHODS Reductions in age- and sex-specific mortality seen in each BRICS country between 1990 and 2011 were measured. These results were compared with those of the best-performing countries in th...

CIOs in Hungary, Romania, and South Africa (SA) are today overcoming disadvantages that their firms suffered during decades of closed national markets. This paper reports on a series of interviews conducted with CIOs in these developing countries focusing on national and organizational strategies used to prepare for international competition and globalization. They achieved competitiveness by i...

The term BRICS, referring to the emerging countries Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, aroused interest of many investors. However, there are still few studies that evaluate evolution trade flows between Brazil especially with Russia. This study analyzed importance BRICS (Brazil, Africa) for Brazilian wood pulp segment's flow Russia from 1997 2016, comparing period before after form...

By empirical demonstration, this study extends the assessments of BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) in performing science and technology in previous studies by exploring their cumulative patterns of science and technology (proxied by publications and patents respectively). Projections of cumulative production in science and technology are made using logistic growth...

Over the past decades, BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa) countries have experienced significant economic growth. However, their political voices in global governance not grown on par with surge. The contributions to symposium ‘The BRICS, Global Governance, and Challenges for South–South Cooperation a Post-Western World’ argue there is quest emerging markets developing play more...

Perspectives Tuberculosis is a disease of poverty that claims the lives of over a million people annually. 1 Globally, tuberculosis is concentrated in low-to middle-income countries. The five countries – Brazil, the Russian Federation, India, China and South Africa – that make up the BRICS group account for 46% of all incident cases of tuberculosis and 40% of all tuberculosis-related mortality....

1 The five BRICS countries are Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa. 2 Ministry of External Affairs of India, “Speech by Foreign Secretary on Building Global Security at the Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies (IPCS) – Konrad Adenauer Stiftung (KAS),” April 16, 2012, http://www.mea.gov.in/Speeches-Statements.htm?dtl/19340/Speech+by+Foreign+Secretary+on+Building+Global+Security+at+...

This study examines how the relationship between oil and stock market return of BRICS behaves at different investment horizons. Using data ranging from 2006 to 2020, wavelet MGARCH-DCC found that markets’ Russia, Brazil, South Africa are comparatively more correlated with price across horizons volatile particularly during Covid-19 period. However, China India is less volatile. It also revealed ...

Stock return distribution in the BRICS. Access to the published version may require subscription. Abstract Stock returns in emerging market economies exhibit patterns that are distinctively different from developed countries: returns are noted to be highly volatile and autocorrelated, and long horizon returns are predictable. While these stylized facts are well established, the assumption under...