Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS). We contribute to addressing this gap by exploring the patterns of … de-industrialization (Brazil, Russia and South Africa). China is the only country where an expanding manufacturing sector … China and the other BRICS. These differences are down to differences in industrial policy: in China industrial policy …

middle-income economies: Bolivia, Brazil, India, Indonesia, Jordan, South Africa, Tanzania, and Vietnam. In order to … linear (Brazil and South Africa) to being U- or J-shaped (India, Jordan, and Indonesia), or a mixture of both (Bolivia …

jointly contributed to the upsurge in aggregate savings in China in the past two decades. Government policies to rebalance the … policies ; China …

Over the last decade, the internal and external macroeconomic imbalances in China have risen to unprecedented levels …. In 2008, China's national savings rate soared to over 53 percent of its GDP, whereas its current account surplus exceeded …, the accession of China to the World Trade Organization has dramatically amplified the effects of these structural …

This paper provides new evidence on the wage gap between informal and formal salary workers in South Africa, Brazil and …

employment in Brazil, Mexico and South Africa, distinguishing between dependent and independent workers. For each country, we use … small at all levels in Brazil. -- Self-employed ; salary work ; informal sector ; earnings differential ; quantile …

We analyze shifts in the structure of China's capital outflows over the past decade. The composition of gross outflows … enormous pool of domestic savings could have a significant impact on global financial markets as China continues to open up its … foreign portfolio allocations, Chinese IIs overweight sectors in which China has a comparative disadvantage. Moreover, Chinese …