This book aims to bring together a series of analyses on international development assistance in the BRICS, the group of countries that includes Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. The BRICS states comprise approximately 3 billion people (~40% of the World’s population) and in terms of GDP account for 16.8 trillion dollars (~22% of the World’s economy). Over the last decade the loose coalition has evolved to become a formal partnership on both economic and political fronts. The first formal meeting of the then-four BRIC countries took place in 2006 during the United Nations General Assembly. This was followed in 2009 by the first summit of BRICS’ heads of state, an event which has been convened annually ever since. On 3-5 September 2017, the ninth BRICS Summit was hosted in Xiamen, China. This book, an anthology of scholars based in BRICS countries, provides invaluable insights into the emerging global south coalition, and will be of interest to scholars, employees of NGOs, and China watchers.
International Development Assistance and the BRICS
- By Lisa Thompson
- December 9, 2019
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Lisa Thompson is a political economist and full Professor in the School of Government at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa. Since 1998 she has led participatory, community orientated research aimed at amplifying the development dynamics and contradictions between local and global in international development and participatory democratic development initiatives. While located within international global political economy and development debates and dynamics, the research focus developed over past decades includes a strong action based component including both mutual learning and advocacy work with grassroots community groups, civil society, non-governmental organisations, social movements and ad hoc forms of community activism and mobilization from below. Lisa was the Director of the African Centre for Citizenship and Democracy from 2007 – 2022.