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...

Brazil, the Russian Federation, India, China and South Africa--the countries known as BRICS--are currently undergoing a deep epidemiological transition that is mainly driven by rapid economic growth and technological change. The changes being observed in the distribution of the burden of diseases and injuries--such as recent increases in the incidence of road traffic injuries--are matters of co...

OBJECTIVE To explore the presence and magnitude of--and change in--socioeconomic and health inequalities between and within Brazil, the Russian Federation, India, China and South Africa--the countries known as BRICS--between 1990 and 2010. METHODS Comparable data on socioeconomic and health indicators, at both country and primary subnational levels, were obtained from publicly available sourc...

Abstract This paper analysed the effect of freshwater withdrawals and management on agricultural industrial sectors productivity in emerging market economies. The auto-regressive distributed lag model panel analyses were employed our estimations. Our result revealed that Brazil had better water use efficiency production with annual which contribute significantly positively to increase crop live...

This study attempt to fill the research gap by figuring out dynamic effects of foreign capital inflows effect on renewable energy and non-renewable consumption using time series non-linear ARDL approach for BRICS from 1991 2019. Non-linear estimates show that positive change in has a Brazil, India, South Africa long run. Also, negative exhibits negatively liked with economies, except Russia We ...

This article proposes the establishment of a prize fund to incentivise public health research within the BRICS association, which comprises the five major emerging world economies: Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. This would stimulate cooperative healthcare research within the group and, on the proviso that the benefits of the research are made freely available within the associat...

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....

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...

Purpose The study aims to determine whether there is a bidirectional causality relationship between health expenditures and per capita income in Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa Turkey (BRICS+T). Design/methodology/approach For that purpose, the 2000–2018 period data of variables were tested with Kónya (2006) panel test. Additionally, relationships public private also investigated stu...

An effective governance structure is central to growth, sustainable development and equal income distribution (economic welfare) (Glass & Newig, 2020). Brazil-Russia-India-China-South Africa (BRICS) countries differ in with varying outcomes on economic welfare. This article explores the extent which impacts welfare BRICS viewed as an emerging powerhouse, significant growth prospects — yet d...