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+...

Perspectives Brazil, the Russian Federation, India, China and South Africa – the countries known as BRICS – are transitioning from emerging economies to leaders in geopolitical affairs. While BRICS face increasing prevalence of noncom-municable disease and injury, they also continue to be burdened by many infectious diseases, including neglected tropical diseases. Neglected tropical diseases ar...

This paper investigated exchange rate and stock price volatility connectedness spillover in Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa (BRICS) during pandemic-induced crises. We first extracted using the Generalized Auto-Regressive Conditional Heteroskedasticity (GARCH) model. Then were by (Diebold Yilmaz, International Journal of Forecasting, 28(1), 57–66, 2012) method. find that return volati...

This paper provides a comparative overview of the experiences of the BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) with structural transformation since the 1980s. We evaluate the different outcomes in industrialisation in these countries, explore the reasons for success (and failure); we also ask what currently industrially lagging countries can learn from the BRICS in this re...

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...

BACKGROUND Large numbers of people are suffering from a group of diseases that mainly affect developing countries, as there are no available or affordable products for prevention or treatment. Research and development (R&D) for these diseases is still a low priority on the health agenda. Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS) are quickly growing economies and having more and more...

BACKGROUND Since 2010, five newly emerging economies collectively known as 'BRICS' (Brazil, India, Russia, China and South Africa) have caught the imagination, and scholarly attention, of political scientists, economists and development specialists. The prospect of a unified geopolitical bloc, consciously seeking to re-frame international (and global) health development with a new set of ideas ...

This paper examines the bank lending channel, which considers how monetary authority actions affect the variation of loans. We focus on the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) totalizing 1254 banks from five countries in the period 2000-2012 (totalizing 13 years). The empirical results show that the effect of money supply growth on the growth of loans is non-linear and inverte...

Perspectives The international community has successfully promoted childhood vaccination as an essential public health intervention. This has been accomplished through efforts such as the World Health Organization's (WHO) Expanded Programme on Immunization and more recently, the establishment of the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI Alliance), a global health partnership commi...

The role of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS) as emerging protagonists in international development cooperation is significantly and rapidly changing. Over the last decade, BRICS have increased their financial as well as technical assistance and established distinct ways and means of economic cooperation, especially through southsouth-cooperation with Low Income Countries (L...